كومنولث فيوجن سستمز

كومنولث فيوجن سستمز
النوعخاصة
تأسست2018; 6 years ago (2018
المقر الرئيسي
كمبردج، مساتشوستس
،
USA
الأشخاص الرئيسيون
بوب مومگارد (CEO)[1]
الموظفون100 (2020)
الموقع الإلكترونيcfs.energy

كومنولث فيوجن سستمز Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) هي شركة أمريكية تهدف إلى بناء محطة مدمجة على أساس ARC توكاماك.[2]يقع مقر الشركة في كمبردج، مساتشوستس. الشركة عضو في وزارة الطاقة الأمريكية إنفيوز للابتكار المعرفي العام والخاص التابع لوزارة الطاقة الأمريكية، مع مختبر پرنستون لفيزياء الپلازما و معهد مساتشوستس للتكنولوجيا (MIT) مركز علوم الاندماج والپلازما.[3]

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History

CFS was founded in 2018 as a spin-off from the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC).[4] After initial funding of $50 million in 2018 from the Italian multinational Eni,[2] CFS closed its series A round of venture capital funding in 2019 with a total of US$115 million in funding from Eni,[5] Bill Gates's Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Vinod Khosla's Khosla Ventures, and others.[6][7] CFS raised an additional US$84 million in series A2 funding from Singapore's Temasek, Norway's Equinor, and Devonshire Investors, as well as from previous investors.[8] As of October 2020, CFS had approximately 100 employees.[9]

In September 2020, the company reported significant progress in the physics and engineering design of the SPARC tokamak,[1][10] and in October 2020, the development of a new high temperature superconducting cable, called VIPER.[11][12]

In March 2021, CFS announced plans to build a headquarters, manufacturing, and research campus (including the SPARC tokamak), in Devens, Massachusetts a suburb of Boston.[13][14]


Technology

CFS plans to focus on proving new yttrium barium copper oxide (YBCO) high-temperature superconducting magnet (HTS) technologies. The company successfully demonstrated a large-bore, high-field (20 Tesla) magnet in September 2021.[15][8] This magnet technology will be used to construct SPARC, a demonstration net-positive energy tokamak.[16][17][18] As of September 2021, SPARC is targeted for completion by 2025.[15] CFS then plans to build a power plant based on the ARC design.[2] Both SPARC and ARC plan to use deuterium-tritium fuel.

The company's VIPER cable can sustain higher electric currents and magnetic fields than previously possible.

See also

References

  1. ^ أ ب Fountain, Henry (29 September 2020). "Compact Nuclear Fusion Reactor Is 'Very Likely to Work,' Studies Suggest". New York Times (in الإنجليزية). Retrieved 29 September 2020.
  2. ^ أ ب ت "MIT and newly formed company launch novel approach to fusion power". MIT News. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  3. ^ Laboratory, Princeton Plasma Physics (2021-01-02). "Future Zero-Emissions Power Plants: Scientists Collaborate on Development of Commercial Fusion Energy". SciTechDaily (in الإنجليزية الأمريكية). Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  4. ^ Tollefson, Jeff (9 March 2018). "MIT launches multimillion-dollar collaboration to develop fusion energy". Nature (in الإنجليزية). pp. 294–295. doi:10.1038/d41586-018-02966-3. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  5. ^ Devlin, Hannah (9 March 2018). "Nuclear fusion on brink of being realised, say MIT scientists". the Guardian (in الإنجليزية). Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  6. ^ Rathi, Akshat (September 26, 2018). "In search of clean energy, investments in nuclear-fusion startups are heating up". Quartz. Retrieved February 4, 2019.
  7. ^ "Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises $115 Million and Closes Series A Round to Commercialize Fusion Energy". PR Newswire. Retrieved June 27, 2019.
  8. ^ أ ب Systems, Commonwealth Fusion. "Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises $84 Million in A2 Round". www.prnewswire.com (in الإنجليزية). Retrieved 2020-05-26.
  9. ^ Aut, Kramer David author (2020-10-13). "Investments in privately funded fusion ventures grow". Physics Today (in الإنجليزية). 2020 (2): 1013a. doi:10.1063/PT.6.2.20201013a. {{cite journal}}: |first= has generic name (help)
  10. ^ "New Scientific Papers Predict Historic Results for Commonwealth Fusion Systems' Approach to Commercial Fusion Energy". Commonwealth Fusion Systems. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
  11. ^ "New High-Temperature Superconductor (HTS) Cable Demonstrates High Performance". Commonwealth Fusion Systems. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
  12. ^ "Superconductor technology for smaller, sooner fusion". MIT PSFC. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
  13. ^ Staff, Jon Chesto Globe; March 3, Updated; 2021; Comments, 12:01 a m Email to a Friend Share on Facebook Share on TwitterPrint this Article View. "MIT energy startup homes in on fusion, with plans for 47-acre site in Devens - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com (in الإنجليزية الأمريكية). Retrieved 2021-03-03. {{cite web}}: |first4= has generic name (help); |last3= has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  14. ^ "Commonwealth Fusion Systems Selects 47-Acre Site in Devens, Mass., for Historic Commercial Fusion Energy Campus". Commonwealth Fusion Systems. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  15. ^ أ ب Chandler, David (8 September 2021). "MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy". MIT. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
  16. ^ "A New Approach to Fusion Energy Starts Today | MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences". eapsweb.mit.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
  17. ^ Greenwald, Martin (2019). "Fusion Energy: Research at the Crossroads". Joule (in الإنجليزية). 3 (5): 1175–1179. doi:10.1016/j.joule.2019.03.013.
  18. ^ Creely, A. J.; Greenwald, M. J.; Ballinger, S. B.; Brunner, D.; Canik, J.; Doody, J.; Fülöp, T.; Garnier, D. T.; Granetz, R.; Gray, T. K.; Holland, C. (2020). "Overview of the SPARC tokamak". Journal of Plasma Physics (in الإنجليزية). 86 (5). doi:10.1017/S0022377820001257. ISSN 0022-3778.

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