I hope this important editorial (Bloomberg: Get Ready for the Nuclear Fusion Revolution) resonates with you, as we coalesce around the solutions we need to abate climate change. We are experiencing a prelude of its ravages as fires consume vast landscapes dried by drought and hurricanes wreck cities and towns.
My own brother was in the middle of Ida as it came ashore in New Orleans on Monday. I, like thousands of others, have not been able to make contact since. I share this personal note to underscore how no one will remain immune to the impacts of atmospheric warming.
ECG is an advocacy voice for all important non-carbon energy sources that can expand our necessary rapid transition from fossil fuels. One such example is fusion energy that will provide power density and cost efficiencies well beyond technologies currently available. Guided by proactive policy and ever expanding demand, fusion will complement current renewable energy options as a clean source to fill intermittency needs, as well as providing power in locales not conducive to existing clean technologies. Your leadership on fusion policy and framing public acceptance is critical in determining how quickly fusion is accepted.
Individual commercial fusion companies remain appropriately guarded on progress and details of their technologies. However, growing global financial commitments, an increase in press coverage, and even the call from one company to create Production Tax Credits are indicators that technologies are fast maturing.
Climate change requires us to be ready to meet production-ready fusion with regulatory policies, incentives, licensing, and manufacturing capacity in place for rapid adoption and expansion. We don’t have the 25 years it took for wide-spread acceptance and growth of existing renewable technologies to occur. Let’s put that experience to good use for fusion.
Your leadership is a big part of the engagement critical to bringing fusion energy to grids, industrial manufacturing, and production of liquid fuels – all necessary to our transition away from the extraction, production, transmission, and use of fossil fuels… soon enough to make a difference.
I hope you will join us and other early energy and environmental voices for fusion in supporting Congressional policy to add fusion to our national infrastructure needs. Our work here has just begun!