{"id":27974,"date":"2016-01-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ashleydev.com\/2016\/01\/19\/member-spotlight-general-fusion-2\/"},"modified":"2020-08-27T11:38:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T15:38:43","slug":"member-spotlight-general-fusion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cna.ca\/fr\/2016\/01\/19\/member-spotlight-general-fusion-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Member Spotlight: General&nbsp;Fusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2002, Dr. Michel Laberge<em>\u00a0<\/em>founded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.generalfusion.com\/\">General Fusion<\/a> to develop energy sources through nuclear fusion. Named to the Global Clean Tech 100, General Fusion started off with four employees in 2009 and currently boasts over sixty staff. The <a href=\"https:\/\/cna.ca\/\">CNA<\/a> recently sat down with company VP Michael Delage at their headquarters in Burnaby, B.C., to talk about their goal to deliver fusion power.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-12586 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cna.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/GeneralFusion2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"GeneralFusion2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cna.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/GeneralFusion2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cna.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/GeneralFusion2-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cna.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/GeneralFusion2.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><strong>TELL ME ABOUT FUSION SCIENCE.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iter.org\/sci\/Whatisfusion\">Fusion<\/a> is nature\u2019s energy source, the process by which stars burn, including our sun. When you \u00a0heat up hydrogen to extremely high temperatures, the atoms collide and stick together, forming helium. This process releases a lot of energy. Fusion technology is about replicating conditions you would find on the sun, here on earth, in order to produce energy.<\/p>\n<p>If you think about what our power plant would look like, we form this little bubble of superheated gas (called a plasma) wrapped in a magnetic field, in the middle of a big spherical tank of liquid metal.\u00a0 The tank is surrounded by pneumatic hammers which hit the outside of the tank. \u00a0These hammers, firing simultaneously, set up a pressure wave in the liquid metal which travels to the middle of the tank where the bubble of plasma is.\u00a0 The pressure wave can be focused thanks to the spherical shape, becoming very strong and crushing the bubble of plasma. This compression heats the plasma to fusion conditions and releases a lot of energy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOW COULD IT CHANGE THE WAY WE SEE ENERGY?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A fusion reaction only produces helium, so it\u2019s clean. There are no emissions or spent fuel waste. We are also aren\u2019t limited with where we can produce this power because the raw materials are very common. So you can build a power plant anywhere and provide safe, clean and reliable base load power 24\/7. It could power humanity for the long term.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s pretty hard to replicate the conditions of the sun, temperatures over 15 million degrees C. No material can hold a gas in those conditions, so researchers have atypically turned to more exotic approaches like lasers and magnetic fields.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-12584 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cna.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/GeneralFusion1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"GeneralFusion1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cna.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/GeneralFusion1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cna.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/GeneralFusion1-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cna.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/GeneralFusion1.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU HAVE FOUND AN INTERESTING WAY TO ADDRESS CHALLENGES.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Crowd sourcing is an interesting idea and a good tool to help address challenges. We worked with a company, InnoCentive, that has worked with NASA, to write up one of our problems and offered\u00a0 a prize for a solution that meets our requirements. We gave everyone submitting thirty days. We had sixty\u00a0 different solvers submit potential solutions working on the problem, and selected one winner that was particularly interesting.\u00a0 Turns out it was from an MIT-trained veteran engineer.\u00a0 We learned a lot from what makes for a good challenge and we are going to do some more in the future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT\u2019S NEXT FOR GENERAL FUSION?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We just raised $27 million this spring, and that will fund us for the next few years. We are making steady progress on demonstrating the core science and developing systems that are needed to build a full-scale plant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2002, Dr. Michel Laberge\u00a0founded General Fusion to develop energy sources through nuclear fusion. 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