Eric Wesoff of Canary Media reports on a nuclear fusion startup called Xcimer.
- Xcimer Energy has raised $100 million to pursue nuclear fusion as a source of abundant, clean energy by developing powerful laser technology to control the fusion reaction.
- The Denver-based startup aims to create laser beams far more powerful, efficient and lower-cost than those used in recent fusion breakthroughs like the National Ignition Facility’s laser-driven experiment.
- Xcimer says it is leveraging laser technologies originally developed for the Strategic Defense Initiative to achieve major advancements in inertial confinement fusion that could generate practical, grid-scale fusion energy.
“To achieve the fusion reaction, hydrogen must be converted into plasma, a state of matter in which negatively charged electrons separate from positively charged atomic nuclei in a sort of atomic particle soup. The transformation to plasma requires temperatures on the order of one million degrees.”
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