Superconducting Magnet Reduces the Cost for a Fusion Reactor by a Factor of 40
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#6KMSW)
A new 20 Tesla Superconducting magnet reduces the cost per watt of a fusion reactor by a factor of almost 40. MIT worked with Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a startup with over $2 billion in funding. The funders of CFS include Temasek Holdings (Singpore), the U.S. Department of Energy, Tiger Global Management, Bill Gates, Google and ...