{"id":143940,"date":"2022-08-14T19:02:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T00:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/meet-copernicus-taes-planned-billion-degree-hydrogen-boron-nuclear-fusion-reactor"},"modified":"2022-08-14T19:02:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T00:02:51","slug":"meet-copernicus-taes-planned-billion-degree-hydrogen-boron-nuclear-fusion-reactor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/meet-copernicus-taes-planned-billion-degree-hydrogen-boron-nuclear-fusion-reactor","title":{"rendered":"Meet \u2018Copernicus\u2019: TAE\u2019s planned billion-degree, hydrogen-boron nuclear fusion reactor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meet-copernicus-taes-planned-billion-degree-hydrogen-boron-nuclear-fusion-reactor2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>TAE\u2019s latest backers include the likes of Google and Chevron<\/b><\/p>\n<p>TAE has earned the backing of <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/science\/mit-bill-gates-build-fusion-machine\" title=\"forward-thinking investors\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">forward-thinking investors<\/a> and, so far, has raised a total of $1.2 billion for its commercial fusion development thanks to a track record of exceeding milestones and performance capability. TAE\u2019s mission is to provide a long-term solution to the world\u2019s rapidly increasing electricity demand while ensuring global energy independence and security.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, the company recently closed its Series G-2 financing round, in which it secured $250 million from investors in the energy, technology, and engineering sectors. By avoiding carbon and particulate emissions, TAE\u2019s safe, non-radioactive method minimizes any negative effects on the environment or the effects of climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAE\u2019s latest backers include the likes of Google and Chevron TAE has earned the backing of forward-thinking investors and, so far, has raised a total of $1.2 billion for its commercial fusion development thanks to a track record of exceeding milestones and performance capability. TAE\u2019s mission is to provide a long-term solution to the world\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,38,873,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-engineering","category-nuclear-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}