{"id":219053,"date":"2025-07-30T12:11:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/sosv-bets-plasma-will-change-everything-from-semiconductors-to-spacecraft"},"modified":"2025-07-30T12:11:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:11:49","slug":"sosv-bets-plasma-will-change-everything-from-semiconductors-to-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/sosv-bets-plasma-will-change-everything-from-semiconductors-to-spacecraft","title":{"rendered":"SOSV bets plasma will change everything from semiconductors to spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sosv-bets-plasma-will-change-everything-from-semiconductors-to-spacecraft2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It sees so much potential that it plans on investing in more than 25 plasma-related startups over the next five years. It is also opening a new Hax lab space in partnership with the New Jersey Economic Development Authority and the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/10\/02\/the-biological-theory-that-explains-why-investors-are-bullish-on-fusion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nuclear fusion<\/a> is an obvious place to seed plasma startups. The potential power source works by compressing fuel until it turns into a dense plasma, so dense that atoms begin fusing, releasing energy in the process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s so much here. The best ideas have yet to come to unlock a lot of potential in the fusion space,\u201d Duncan Turner, general partner at SOSV, told TechCrunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It sees so much potential that it plans on investing in more than 25 plasma-related startups over the next five years. It is also opening a new Hax lab space in partnership with the New Jersey Economic Development Authority and the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Nuclear fusion is an obvious place [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,873,48,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-nuclear-energy","category-particle-physics","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219053","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}