Source: Bloomberg
Summary
Pacific Fusion’s sub-scale prototype successfully demonstrated its ability to deliver enormous amounts of power in a flash. The company is now poised to move forward with its demonstration power plant. According to the company, the prototype’s performance exceeded expectations. The achievement is seen as a significant milestone in the development of fusion energy. Pacific Fusion plans to use the results to inform the design of its demonstration plant.
Our Reading
The announcement sounds ambitious.
Pacific Fusion’s prototype delivered enormous amounts of power in a flash, because that’s exactly what we needed, another “breakthrough” in fusion energy. The company is now setting up its demonstration power plant, because what could possibly go wrong. This is the part where we pretend that this isn’t just another iteration of the same idea we’ve been hearing about for decades. “Fusion energy is just around the corner” is the tech equivalent of “checks in the mail.”
Author: Evan Null
