Fusionsenergie fast bereit für die Hauptsendezeit, da Commonwealth erstes Pilotprojekt für grenzenlose, saubere Energie baut …

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CFS is currently building its SPARC demonstration project outside of Boston, and just installed the first of 18 high-temperature, D-shaped superconducting magnets that power the machinery. The magnets that CFS manufactures are theoretically strong enough to lift an aircraft carrier out of the water, Mumgaard said. SPARC will nearly be completed by the end of 2026 and will produce its first plasma energy in 2027.

“The main argument against fusion is making it work, and that’s why we’re building SPARC and showing that it can work,” Mumgaard told *Fortune* in an interview prior to the keynote. “That will be a big moment for fusion overall, not just for us.”

If SPARC succeeds, CFS’ first commercial fusion plant, ARC, is slated to be built and to come online in the early 2030s just outside of Richmond, Virginia. If all goes as planned, the 400-megawatt plant would become the world’s first fusion plant providing steady power to the grid—enough to power about 300,000 homes.

Whereas traditional nuclear fission energy creates power by splitting atoms, fusion uses heat to create energy by melding them together. In the simplest form, it fuses hydrogen found in water into an extremely hot, electrically charged state known as plasma to create helium—the same process that powers the sun. When executed properly, the process triggers endless reactions to make energy for electricity. But stars rely on overwhelming gravitational pressure to force their fusion. Here on Earth, creating and containing the pressure needed to force the reaction in a consistent, controlled way remains an engineering challenge.

This is a thermal process, right ? Ultimately generating steam ?

Fusion power won’t be „free“ or „limitless“ or „revolutionary“. Except for maybe the containment building, it still requires all the same stuff that a fission plant does: coolant loops, steam generator, steam turbine, spinning generator, etc. And reactor and controls for a fusion plant will be MORE expensive than those for a fission plant. Nothing limitless about all of this. It all costs money, takes time to build, has to be maintained, wears out. And if you want more energy out, you have to pay more.