Summary

As we discussed in a few of our previous articles, fusion energy is not a “poor man’s game”. The amount of money that it will take to fully commercialize fusion energy is likely in the billions; anything to reduce the size of a reactor only helps reduce the amount of capital required to reach that goal. One of the theories that commercial programs embraced was that they didn’t need to build something as big
or expensive as ITER to be successful in fusion. If EMC2 and the Polywell do achieve their promise, it represents another step in the evolution of fusion systems. Given that fusion in general has been a big “learning process”, hopefully this particular experiment will torn turn out well.