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Stephen Shankland<p>I loved our inflatable SPARC (the tokamak we're building now to demonstrate net fusion energy and pave the way for our ARC fusion power plants). This was at an inspiring (for me at least) Commonwealth Fusion Systems all-hands meeting. The inflatable incarnation of SPARC was fun, but our work on the actual SPARC is very real. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FusionEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FusionEnergy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a></p>
Stephen Shankland<p>Cool-as-heck thing I learned about Commonwealth Fusion Systems cranes in Tokamak Hall: why we have two of them instead of just one with a higher lifting capacity. This is one of my favorite bits of CFS engineering trivia. </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FusionEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FusionEnergy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Magnets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Magnets</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Engineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Engineering</span></a><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/P4b2LmlS-mA" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/shorts/P4b2LmlS-mA</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Jill Dominguez<p>It may not be in my lifetime, but with the progress they’re making I’m sure they’ll figure this out. </p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/FusionEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FusionEnergy</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/FusionReactors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FusionReactors</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/stellarator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stellarator</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/tokamak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tokamak</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/MagneticConfinement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MagneticConfinement</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Breakthrough" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Breakthrough</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ScienceNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@h4ckernews/114494925302167400" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@h4ckernews/11</span><span class="invisible">4494925302167400</span></a></p>
Stephen Shankland<p>Is this 1. 3D model of a protein or 2. twisty magnets in a stellarator?</p><p>Answer: It's the Type One Energy magnets shown in their physics basis papers published today on the Infinity Two power plant: <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-plasma-physics/collections/physics-basis-of-the-infinity-two-fusion-power-plant" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cambridge.org/core/journals/jo</span><span class="invisible">urnal-of-plasma-physics/collections/physics-basis-of-the-infinity-two-fusion-power-plant</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FusionEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FusionEnergy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Stellarator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Stellarator</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Physics</span></a></p>
TWiT Podcasts<p>⚛️ Is fusion energy finally within reach? <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@leo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>leo</span></a></span> Laporte and guests react to the French Atomic Energy Commission’s 22-minute plasma breakthrough and what it means for the future of clean energy on TWiT 1024.</p><p>🌍 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FusionEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FusionEnergy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CleanTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CleanTech</span></a><br>📲 Download and subscribe here:<br>🔗 <a href="https://buff.ly/uqXMHLc" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/uqXMHLc</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> | <a href="https://buff.ly/V9xPAlu" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/V9xPAlu</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Stephen Shankland<p>"Learning curve" actually has a technical meaning about manufacturing expertise — see up Wright's Law. At Commonwealth Fusion Systems we build magnets 30x faster now than when we first started, Chief Science Officer and Co-founder Brandon Sorbom said at <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FusionXInvest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FusionXInvest</span></a> this week.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FusionEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FusionEnergy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Manufacturing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Manufacturing</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EnergyTransition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyTransition</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Magnets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Magnets</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Superconductors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Superconductors</span></a><br><a href="https://blog.cfs.energy/how-cfs-is-building-a-fusion-factory-not-just-a-single-fusion-machine/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.cfs.energy/how-cfs-is-bui</span><span class="invisible">lding-a-fusion-factory-not-just-a-single-fusion-machine/</span></a></p>
Stephen Shankland<p>Time for some light reading. Harvard Business School case study on Commonwealth Fusion Systems is 37 pages long. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FusionEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FusionEnergy</span></a></p>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUS" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>TheConversationUS</span></a></span> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/QuantumComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QuantumComputing</span></a> is the new <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/FusionEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FusionEnergy</span></a>. 🤷🏻‍♂️</p>
Stephen Shankland<p>New PPPL paper uses higher fidelity computer simulation (at NERSC) to evaluate our plan to handle plasma disruption problems in SPARC. TL;dr: the new simulation validates our approach, six injectors that squirt in gas to rapidly cool the plasma.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FusionEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FusionEnergy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ComputerSimulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerSimulation</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-4326/ad9ec4" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">iopscience.iop.org/article/10.</span><span class="invisible">1088/1741-4326/ad9ec4</span></a></p>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@rightardia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>rightardia</span></a></span> Did the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/QuantumComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QuantumComputing</span></a> money shift to the infinite free <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>energy</span></a> potential of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/FusionEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FusionEnergy</span></a> ? 😂 </p><p>“A fool and his money are easily separated.”</p>
Stephen Shankland<p>I encourage everybody curious to check this post by Chief Science Officer Brandon Sorbom about the difference between SPARC (demonstration machine) and ARC (power plant). There are warm blankets and then there are WARM blankets. Ours will be 600°C. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brandon-sorbom-abb0ba14a_powermoves-activity-7274866632252878851-fN1Y/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">linkedin.com/posts/brandon-sor</span><span class="invisible">bom-abb0ba14a_powermoves-activity-7274866632252878851-fN1Y/</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FusionEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FusionEnergy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Engineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Engineering</span></a></p>
Stephen Shankland<p>Here's our CEO Bob Mumgaard announcing our fusion commercialization news at a press conference today with Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin and others. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FusionEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FusionEnergy</span></a></p>
Stephen Shankland<p>Honking big day for Commonwealth Fusion Systems: We announced the site for our first fusion power plant, ARC: Chesterfield County, Virginia. 400 megawatts of clean, firm, zero-carbon power coming in the early 2030s. We looked at 100+ sites before picking this one.</p><p><a href="https://blog.cfs.energy/cfs-will-build-its-first-arc-fusion-power-plant-in-virginia/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.cfs.energy/cfs-will-build</span><span class="invisible">-its-first-arc-fusion-power-plant-in-virginia/</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FusionEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FusionEnergy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EnergyTransition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyTransition</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Virginia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Virginia</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Power</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a></p>
Stephen Shankland<p>A profile of Zach Hartwig, who lived through the DOE's shutdown of the Alcator C-Mod tokamak at MIT and helped bring CFS into existence a few years ago. He's been a key collaborator in our magnet development. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FusionEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FusionEnergy</span></a> <a href="https://news.mit.edu/2024/transforming-fusion-to-clean-energy-zachary-hartwig-1211" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.mit.edu/2024/transforming</span><span class="invisible">-fusion-to-clean-energy-zachary-hartwig-1211</span></a></p>
Stephen Shankland<p>"In 2027, we'll push a button, we'll power it up, and we'll create a star inside a machine.... With fusion energy, we're not just solving the energy challenges of today. We're making energy unlimited.... It's the last energy source that we will ever need." – my boss Bob Mumgaard.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FusionEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FusionEnergy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EnergyTransition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyTransition</span></a><br><a href="https://youtu.be/40Mqwo8zQHU?t=2123" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/40Mqwo8zQHU?t=2123</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Stephen Shankland<p>Briefly: Our CSMC electromagnet works like a champ, proving out the second of 2 high-temperature superconducting magnet types needed for fusion: steady state and now pulsed current.</p><p>It was dramatic watching the testing (at MIT) in real time, like when it hit 50,000 amps current / 5.7 tesla field. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FusionEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FusionEnergy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Magnets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Magnets</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Superconductivity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Superconductivity</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7264332707613052932/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:l</span><span class="invisible">i:activity:7264332707613052932/</span></a></p>
rexi<p>Sad* math. </p><p>There's just one way to avoid <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PlanetEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PlanetEarth</span></a>'s looming <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/massextinctionevent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>massextinctionevent</span></a>: we need <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>energy</span></a> at scales unreachable by any other means.</p><p>No <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fusionenergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fusionenergy</span></a>=no future</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NoFusionNoFuture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoFusionNoFuture</span></a></p><p>*(sad because the incentive to achieve it is wholly incommensurate with that essential effort heretofore**.)</p><p>**(beyond our diminishingly small happenstantial survival chance in recognizable form, no other ‘solution’ exists at this time.)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fusion</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/carboncapture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>carboncapture</span></a></p>
Stephen Shankland<p>Big in-depth fusion energy piece today in the NYT. Their assessment of my esteemed employer, Commonwealth Fusion Systems: "If there’s a big fish in the commercial fusion pond, Commonwealth is it." Read the piece for mentions of Jell-O, snakes, spiders, Tootsie Rolls.</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/15/climate/fusion-energy.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/interactive/2024/1</span><span class="invisible">1/15/climate/fusion-energy.html</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FusionEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FusionEnergy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Fusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fusion</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EnergyTransition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyTransition</span></a></p>
Earthworm 🐌<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.science/@KnowableMag" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>KnowableMag</span></a></span> </p><p>the desire to tech-fix structural problems is so depressing.<br>I get it. Scientists are nerds, and if you have the luck that your field of research receives billions of funding, who are you to say no?</p><p>But the policy makers responsible for the allocation of these funds... don't these people, like... inform themselves? </p><p>Even IF fusion reactors could be developed in a reasonable timespan (and the billions required for research would not just diverti much needed investments into clean and decentralized energy):</p><p>A lot of energy is by no means a solution to the transgression of the multiple planetary boundaries (nor does it help against the rise of fascism we are experiencing).</p><p>So, I let you here with this nice figure, you all can draw your own conclusions.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FusionReactor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FusionReactor</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FusionEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FusionEnergy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tokamak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tokamak</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FusionPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FusionPower</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ITER" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ITER</span></a></p>
Stephen Shankland<p>I hadn't heard of integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) until this ARPA-E award to CFS. $2.5M to use multiple computer models across different length scales to design 2 joined materials for our ARC power plant. Specifically the vacuum vessel . <a href="https://cfs.energy/news-and-media/arpa-e-award-boosts-cfs-quest-for-the-best-fusion-power-plant-materials" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cfs.energy/news-and-media/arpa</span><span class="invisible">-e-award-boosts-cfs-quest-for-the-best-fusion-power-plant-materials</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FusionEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FusionEnergy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Plasma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plasma</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DOE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOE</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Fusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fusion</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/engineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>engineering</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ICME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICME</span></a></p>
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