Blog, Fusion, Technology Milestones

2021: The Dawn of the Fusion Age

By Jane Hotchkiss Jan 04, 2022
When humanity looks back at the history of climate actions advanced to build its non-carbon energy cycle, fusion, and the year 2021 will stand out. The year saw significant, announced milestones in plasma physics and engineering—in superconducting magnets and sustained plasma temperatures, for example—complemented by investment milestones—at least $4 billion…
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Boston Globe, “After years of doubts, hopes grow that nuclear fusion is finally for real and could help address climate change”

By ECG Dec 28, 2021
“I started in renewables 25 years ago, when we were being told that photovoltaics was a pipe dream, similar to what the conversation is today about fusion,” said Jane Hotchkiss, president of Energy Common Good, a Concord-based advocacy group for fusion energy. “It’s not just about technological viability; there are…
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ECG President Jane Hotchkiss on The Stream

By ECG Dec 09, 2021
"We celebrate all the global private and public fusion development going on because this is a very exciting moment in fusion and in clean energy. For instance, two companies in the U.S. have raised $4 billion in the last two months. This equals 10% of our total fusion research funding…
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News from COP26 – and fusion events to watch for

By ECG Nov 05, 2021
News from COP26 – and fusion events to watch for For the first time in the history of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change, fusion power is part of the discussion. The fusion conversation was kicked off at COP26 in Glasgow yesterday (November…
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Energy for the Common Good is at COP26 in Scotland!

By ECG Nov 02, 2021
We’re on our way to COP26 in Scotland…  Beginning this week, fusion will finally have a voice on the global climate stage.  Here at the 26th Annual Conference of the parties (Glasgow until the 12th), Prime Minister Boris Johnson requested fusion’s inclusion at the conference alongside other clean energy technologies…
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Fusion is Real and It’s Coming

By ECG Sep 08, 2021
Energy for the Common Good (ECG) celebrates the joint achievement of MIT and Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) in our advancement towards commercial fusion energy. Their creation and successful test of the world’s strongest high temperature superconducting magnet shows that a tokamak can be built that achieves net energy (and more) with a footprint and…
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A Note to the Environmental Community

By Jane Hotchkiss Sep 03, 2021
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…
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What is Fusion? An Introduction to ECG’s Whitepapers

By ECG Aug 23, 2021
When fusion energy enters the market, it will offer a dense, carbon-free, renewable energy source unmatched by current technologies. The power generation that it can provide will be a critical partner to renewables. But, taking into consideration what we have learned from renewable energy policy, finance, and commercial project development,…
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