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Inertia Enterprises · Site to be announced · USA (other)
Pilot grid-scale fusion laser beamline (10 kJ at 10 Hz, 10% wall-plug efficiency), working with Lawrence Livermore on targets and lasers.
Power
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Fusion · Research and prototype
Storage
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energy capacity
Online
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not announced
Capital committed
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closed or awarded
Capital pending
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conditional or under review
How it works
Lasers or pulsed power crush a tiny fuel pellet from every side in billionths of a second, so it fuses before it can fly apart. A power plant would repeat this several times a second.
OPEN IN 3D →Grid connection, permits, contractors and cost not researched yet for this project.
Not applicable: test or demonstration machine, sells no power
STEP 2/4 · AT RISK REBCO superconducting tapeHigh-temperature superconducting magnets use a rare-earth barium copper oxide layer.
STEP 3/3 · WATCH Copper-intensive technologiesMagnet coils and stabilizers; also every grid and transmission project.
Critical inputs
Policy that applies