Helion Energy, a Washington state start-up company, announced that it expects to have a fusion power plant built within five years, betting on a faster timeline for harnessing the possibly game-changing energy source than most experts think is plausible.
is the board chair and largest investor, signed a contract with tech giant Microsoft in what the firm says is the world’s first power purchase agreement involving fusion energya potentially abundant, cheap and clean form of electricity that scientists have been trying to develop for decades.
“Will it be possible for us to have a fusion reactor be capable of putting power on the grid?” said Robert Rosner, a professor of physics and astrophysics at University of Chicago. “The answer is yes. Do I think it will happen soon? No. My sense is it will be in the late 2030s to 2040.
But even among these companies, Helion’s timeline seems a stretch. “It is great to be ambitious, but extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof,” said Mowry.Helion is providing scant details about its power purchase agreement with Microsoft, withholding the price the tech company will pay for the power and the penalties that would fall on Helion if the power, presumably for one of Microsoft’s data centers, is not produced.
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