{"id":83162,"date":"2018-09-30T08:42:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T15:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/commonwealth-fusion-stronger-magnet-tokomak-gets-billionaire-funding"},"modified":"2018-09-30T08:42:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T15:42:23","slug":"commonwealth-fusion-stronger-magnet-tokomak-gets-billionaire-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/commonwealth-fusion-stronger-magnet-tokomak-gets-billionaire-funding","title":{"rendered":"Commonwealth Fusion stronger magnet tokomak gets billionaire funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/commonwealth-fusion-stronger-magnet-tokomak-gets-billionaire-funding.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfs.energy\/technology\/\">Commonwealth Fusion Systems a spinout from MIT has received additional funding from Breakthrough Energy Ventures (which investment from billionaires Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma, Mukesh Ambani, and Richard Branson).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Commonwealth Fusion Systems will use new superconducting materials to make far stronger magnets for a smaller Tokamak fusion system. The planned fusion experiment, called Sparc, is set to be far smaller \u2013 about 1\/65th of the volume \u2013 than that of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project, an international collaboration.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>Breakthrough Energy Ventures\u2019 portfolio company <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CFS_energy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CFS_energy<\/a> is building on decades of government-funded research to accelerate the path toward clean, limitless commercial fusion energy. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cleanenergy?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#cleanenergy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfs.energy\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfs.energy\/\">https:\/\/www.cfs.energy\/<\/a><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2018\/09\/commonwealth-fusion-stronger-magnet-tokomak-gets-billionaire-funding.html\">https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2018\/09\/commonwealth-fusion-st...nding.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commonwealth Fusion Systems a spinout from MIT has received additional funding from Breakthrough Energy Ventures (which investment from billionaires Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma, Mukesh Ambani, and Richard Branson). Commonwealth Fusion Systems will use new superconducting materials to make far stronger magnets for a smaller Tokamak fusion system. The planned fusion experiment, called Sparc, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83162","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}