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A High-Profile Geneticist Is Launching a Fusion-Power Moonshot
Silicon Valley A-listers are funding Pacific Fusion, a startup that founding CEO Eric Lander says will have a full-scale demonstration system within a decade.
Lander is the founding CEO of newly announced Pacific Fusion, heading a team that includes top scientists from the national nuclear labs—Lawrence Livermore and Sandia—as well as experts in simulation and operations. His contention, which I will hear repeatedly as I meet with his team, is that we’ve now made all the scientific breakthroughs we need to understand how to use this technique to generate way more energy that it takes to build and run this system. “But it became clear that that structure resonated, because everybody takes early-stage risk in these really capital-intense, long-duration moonshots.” Taneja led a round of $900 million with participation from several other VC firms and Silicon Valley A-listers including Schmidt, Reid Hoffman, Patrick Collison, John Doerr, and Mustafa Suleyman.
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