Madison’s Realta Fusion is among a select group racing to turn plasma into clean energy
Down a long driveway, just off a rustic road in Stoughton, scientists are plugging away in a basement warehouse, trying to generate and confine plasma, the fourth state of matter.
They’re doing it in the WHAM: a cylinder connected through wires and cables with powerful magnets on both sides. The goal is to trap ionized particles long enough to generate plasma and keep the reaction going.
Plasma is what powers the stars, but creating it reliably on Earth is more difficult. Still, that’s what nuclear physicists are racing worldwide to do: scale this superheated soup of particles to produce a cleaner energy source amid a climate crisis...
RSK: Madison is a finalist to have their R&D lab built here. Would bring other jobs with it.
Ken Notes: Fusion is the next big thing and it will be bigger than AI or Tech, bigger than foreign oil, bigger than the automobile. Whoever figures it out will make Elon look like an also ran alas figuring it out will be a challenge that makes landing and living on Mars look easy.
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