Commonwealth Fusion Systems
We’re on a mission to deliver clean fusion energy to the planet fast enough to matter for humanity’s biggest challenges.⚡️🔆💫
- On a panel at #WEF26 discussing whether humanity should bet on moonshots, CFS CEO and Co-founder Bob Mumgaard didn't shy away from challenging skepticism. 1/5
- 2/5 Many times in history, people asked seemingly unreasonable questions — what we might call moonshots — only later to provide answers that became massive new industries. #Davos
- 3/5 Fusion was a matter of "if" for decades before it became a matter of "when." And now we're answering that question too: In 2027 we'll turn on our fusion machine, SPARC, and this idea will become a reality. #FusionEnergy #CleanTech
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View full thread5/5 • The confluence of tech advancements pulling fusion energy within reach • Why big bets on hard problems help them punch through to success • Breaking down "moonshot" challenges into discrete execution steps Watch the full World Economic Forum session here: www.weforum.org/meetings/wor...
- Want to dive deeper into the tech that makes CFS tick? In this episode of the Tech Cars Machines podcast, Ali Tabibian interviews our Chief Science Officer and Co-founder Brandon Sorbom. The two discuss CFS origins, the SPARC fusion machine we’re building, and what's to come. Listen to learn:
- 2/4 ✅ How fusion machines called tokamaks bring fusion fuel to the right conditions of density, temperature, and confinement time. ✅ How it’ll take only milliseconds for that fuel, called a plasma, to stabilize during a fusion pulse inside SPARC.
- 3/4 ✅ How our magnets’ high-temperature superconducting tape is made, sandwiching a super-thin layer of HTS between layers of steel, copper, and silver. ✅ How CFS built SPARC magnets that meet the engineering challenge of being both big and strong.
- 4/4 ✅ More about the energy-capturing “blanket” and other differences between SPARC and ARC. ✅ How fusion is intrinsically safe because the process by default just turns off, with no Hollywood-style balls of blazing plasma. #FusionEnergy #Energy
