Longview Fusion Energy has contracted for a commercial fusion plant for grid power production.
Practical, commercial nuclear fusion power has been a dream for decades. Promising limitless, clean energy, multiple research organizations and companies have been struggling for 60 years to make it a commercial proposition, and several are nearing the point of prototype testing. One, Longview Fusion Energy Systems Inc., has signed a memorandum of understanding with civil engineering giant Fluor to build a pilot plant, using Longview’s solid-state laser driven, inertial confinement technology. Going directly to plant construction without a working prototype is ambitious, especially for a venture capital funded operation, and it suggests supercomputers and advanced simulation to generate the high confidence levels needed for commercialization.
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