{"id":93819,"date":"2019-06-04T00:04:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T21:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/?p=93819"},"modified":"2019-06-04T00:15:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T21:15:22","slug":"600-milyon-dolarlik-yeni-nukleer-reaktorun-gunesi-gecmesi-ongoruluyor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/600-milyon-dolarlik-yeni-nukleer-reaktorun-gunesi-gecmesi-ongoruluyor\/","title":{"rendered":"How A $600 Million Fusion Energy Unicorn Plans To Beat Solar"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Walking with Michl Binderbauer into his 2-acre laboratory feels a bit like taking a factory tour with Willy Wonka. In one corner Binderbauer, chief executive of TAE Technologies, shows off a new machine that blasts cancer tumors with a neutron beam. Engineers huddle in a control room. Beyond their window: Norman.<\/h1>\n

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That\u2019s the name of TAE\u2019s 100-foot-long prototype nuclear fusion reactor, a magnificent assemblage of stainless steel vessels, electromagnets and particle accelerator tubes. Once every eight minutes Norman emits a clang, as it transforms 100 million watts of electricity into a cloud of 30 million degree Celsius plasma that it blasts with beams of protons (the simplest form of hydrogen). They smash together with enough force to fuse into helium\u2014releasing copious amounts of energy in the process. \u201cIt\u2019s a function of violence,\u201d says Binderbauer, 50, with a smile.<\/p>\n

TAE, known until last year as Tri Alpha Energy, has raised $600 million, most recently at a valuation of more than $2 billion. Investors include the late Paul Allen\u2019s Vulcan Capital, the Rockefeller family\u2019s Venrock, and Big Sky Capital, family money of billionaire stock trader Charles Schwab. They\u2019re betting that TAE will be able to tame fusion into a source of electricity.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the name of TAE\u2019s 100-foot-long prototype nuclear fusion reactor, a magnificent assemblage of stainless steel vessels, electromagnets and particle accelerator tubes. Once every eight minutes Norman emits a clang, as it transforms 100 million watts of electricity into a cloud of 30 million degree Celsius plasma that it blasts with beams of protons (the simplest form of hydrogen). They smash together with enough force to fuse into helium\u2014releasing copious amounts of energy in the process. \u201cIt\u2019s a function of violence,\u201d says Binderbauer, 50, with a smile.<\/p>\n

TAE, known until last year as Tri Alpha Energy, has raised $600 million, most recently at a valuation of more than $2 billion. Investors include the late Paul Allen\u2019s Vulcan Capital, the Rockefeller family\u2019s Venrock, and Big Sky Capital, family money of billionaire stock trader Charles Schwab. They\u2019re betting that TAE will be able to tame fusion into a source of electricity.<\/p>\n

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Walking with Michl Binderbauer into his 2-acre laboratory feels a bit like taking a factory tour with Willy Wonka. In one corner Binderbauer, chief executive of TAE Technologies, shows off a new machine that blasts cancer tumors with a neutron beam. Engineers huddle in a control room. Beyond their window: Norman. That\u2019s the name of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51,53,43],"tags":[51789,42483,42490,42489,34979,26353,19,42491,51790,41345,67,1009,51786,51787,51783,51785,1299,36443,42852,51784,43922,42853,42855,42854,46158,42856,23134,25480,34931,43093,34930,51788,51782],"views":1577,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93819"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93823,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93819\/revisions\/93823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}