4/4 Six millimeters — about a quarter of an inch, or the width of a pencil — is the gap that separates each vacuum vessel half from its TF companions. As a result, that's the margin for error when aligning and assembling these SPARC components.
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3/4 We'll place two sets of nine TF magnets in arc-shaped arrangements on orange stands, and then insert one half of SPARC's vacuum vessel into each set — like hooking your finger through nine coffee mug handles. We'll then bring the two halves together and weld them into a single structure.
2/4 This pair of TF #magnets exemplify precision engineering at its finest, a requirement for these magnets to carry out their job of confining and controlling SPARC's superhot plasma.
Two of SPARC's toroidal field magnets mounted inside Commonwealth Fusion Systems' Tokamak Hall.
...And then there were two.
Our D-shaped toroidal field (TF) magnets are the first of SPARC's three magnet types that we're installing, which is why our team is heads-down finishing and shipping these out of our magnet factory. 1/4
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“We want fusion power plants. That’s the dream of the field. That Fusion Energy Office is focused on how do we achieve that by the early 2030s.”
–Dario Gil, Under Secretary for Science at the @departmentofenergy.bsky.social, speaking to @scsp.bsky.social CEO Ylli Bajraktari.
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Read CFS CEO and Co-founder Bob Mumgaard's full interview with Zawya here: www.zawya.com/en/projects/...
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Check out the full AMA here: reddit.com/r/fusion/com...
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What does the path to commercial fusion energy actually look like? ⚡️
CFS Chief Science Officer and Co-founder Brandon Sorbom recently spent time with the r/fusion community as part of an AMA to answer exactly that.
Here are some of our favorite insights on ARC, AI, and more 👇. 1/7
“If you really want to make a difference in something big, that people haven’t done before, you need to put the effort in and be okay with taking risks.”
–Alex Creely, Chief Engineer of the ARC Conceptual Design at CFS
Check out the full interview below.
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✓ Near-limitless fuel sourced from seawater (and produced in the machine)
✓ Compact power plants with flexible siting
✓ No carbon emissions and no meltdown risk
Read more about why fusion will change how we think about energy on our blog: blog.cfs.energy/why-fusion-i...
2/3 Today, industries are forced to plan around energy constraints, nations must compete for fuel, and AI infrastructure is limited by energy and grid capacity. With fusion energy, things can fundamentally change:
Does access to electricity further human progress?
Our company is driven by a connection that’s easy to overlook: Energy availability leads to human prosperity, and that availability strongly correlates with economic growth, reduced poverty, better health, and improved education outcomes. 1/3
Students at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social will now get the chance to study fusion energy and contribute to making it a reality. Fusion is the last energy source humanity will need; we applaud the university for teaching the next generation of fusion experts who'll carry this technology forward.
“Advancing progress in fusion will require expertise across disciplines," said Dean of Columbia Engineering Shih-Fu Chang. “With this minor, we are preparing students with a solid foundation they can build on to join in this exciting effort.'”
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• The confluence of tech advancements pulling fusion energy within reach
• Why big bets on hard problems help them punch through to success
• Breaking down "moonshot" challenges into discrete execution steps
Watch the full World Economic Forum session here: www.weforum.org/meetings/wor...
4/5 In this panel discussion, speaking alongside Scripps Institution of Oceanography Director Meenakshi Wadhwa, Flagship Pioneering CEO Noubar Afeyan, and LLNL Director Kimberly Budil, Bob chats about:
3/5 Fusion was a matter of "if" for decades before it became a matter of "when." And now we're answering that question too: In 2027 we'll turn on our fusion machine, SPARC, and this idea will become a reality.
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2/5 Many times in history, people asked seemingly unreasonable questions — what we might call moonshots — only later to provide answers that became massive new industries.
#Davos
On a panel at #WEF26 discussing whether humanity should bet on moonshots, CFS CEO and Co-founder Bob Mumgaard didn't shy away from challenging skepticism. 1/5
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✅ More about the energy-capturing “blanket” and other differences between SPARC and ARC.
✅ How fusion is intrinsically safe because the process by default just turns off, with no Hollywood-style balls of blazing plasma.
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✅ How our magnets’ high-temperature superconducting tape is made, sandwiching a super-thin layer of HTS between layers of steel, copper, and silver.
✅ How CFS built SPARC magnets that meet the engineering challenge of being both big and strong.
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✅ How fusion machines called tokamaks bring fusion fuel to the right conditions of density, temperature, and confinement time.
✅ How it’ll take only milliseconds for that fuel, called a plasma, to stabilize during a fusion pulse inside SPARC.
Want to dive deeper into the tech that makes CFS tick?
In this episode of the Tech Cars Machines podcast, Ali Tabibian interviews our Chief Science Officer and Co-founder Brandon Sorbom. The two discuss CFS origins, the SPARC fusion machine we’re building, and what's to come.
Listen to learn:
Rick Needham
7/7 “If you wait until fusion is obvious, you’re at the back of the queue,” Rick said. Added Jennifer, “Getting regulation right makes a country an attractive market for deployment. It lowers cost, reduces timelines, and signals seriousness.”
6/7 ⚡ Speaking at WEF, CFS Chief Global Affairs Officer Jennifer Ganten and CFS Chief Commercial Officer Rick Needham discussed how countries can prepare today for fusion energy tomorrow.
