Context of Ride
These six firms, and 36 others identified by the Fusion Industries Association (FIA), a trade body for this budding sector, are hoping to ride the green energy wave to a carbon-free future. They think they can succeed, where others failed, in taking fu sion from the lab to the grid—and do so with machines far smaller and cheaper than the latest intergovernmental behemoth, ITER, now being built in the south of France at a cost estimated by America’s energy department to be $65bn. In some cases that optimism is based on the use of technologies and materials not available in the past; in others, on simpler designs.
—The Economist