Gates-Backed Firm Says Its Fusion Tech Validated to Make Power

Commonwealth Fusion Systems LLC, which has raised almost $3 billion from investors including Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Nvidia Corp.’s venture arm, says five peer-reviewed papers validate the physics underpinning its first commercial-scale power plant.

Commonwealth is targeting the early 2030s to put energy on the grid from a 400-megawatt facility in Virginia, enough to power 280,000 homes. The papers, published in the Journal of Plasma Physics
, also cover other aspects of the power plant, including strategies to mitigate plasma disruptions, Commonwealth said in a statement Thursday.

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