In the last analysis, it was apparent that fusion power is a long way from becoming available to run buildings. Not so says TMPG, the parent company for Truth Social, which is now merging with fusion developer TAE Technologies, in a $6 billion all-stock deal. As far as boosting the research into what many scientists believe could be the power source to run wireless grids throughout the world, fusion is still in the laboratory, not in the development stage. This type of investment scares the wallets of investors so much that they seal shut like an Egyptian tomb.
While fusion research is a worthwhile endeavor, since someday it will be a power source, the fact that no realistic progress has been made is just the type of evidence that makes investment groups shy away from funding a broad range of startups. And a valuation of stock at this level is unusual and carries heavy doubt with it.
In the article on TechCrunch, Tim De Chant and Amanda Silberling reveal that the attempt to merge these two companies is raising some eyebrows in the fusion research space. The authors also reveal that TAE Technologies has been working on the problem of fusion for 30+ years. This is how long it takes for a functional discovery in these fields to take hold. There has been so little movement in the industry, and that is to be expected, because most scientists are stumped as to how to deliver fusion power to a device that needs power.
Although TAE Technologies is the premier lab for this type of study, its devices have lacked a functional application that would warrant a large round of funding. It can be thought that there is quite a conflict of interest in the deal. The DOE is being pressured to step up and deliver less directly connected subsidies to the fusion industry. The CEO of TMPG, a hardline supporter of the administration, says in a quote that he wanted to “cement America’s global energy dominance for generations,” with plans to build the first utility-scale fusion power plant. While industry insiders are calling for a move to consolidate research rather than jump to the construction of what could be an enormous flower pot.
The government is taking the high road and announcing an initiative to guide new commercial efforts via a “road map” to eventual commercial construction, but with no funding streams proposed.
The proposed fusion power plant would offer 50 MWe, which is roughly enough for a small town, or, you may have already guessed, a large data center. With the order to write the “one-rule,” governing Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the United States, with no input from the states (they are blocked completely), and an unannounced team to write the code and algorithms. And Amazon investing 80 billion in the American Government for efforts in AI, it’s not much of a leap to see what the fusion power plant will power.
A better understanding is that the construction is being planned in Irvine, CA, but has not been finalized at this point, while the plans for the government data centers are planned by the Department of Energy for federal land all across the country. The investments in the government AI with a right-leaning ideology, that satisfies ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini, are becoming a bigger and more promising reality, as money is moving across barriers to fuel infrastructure constructions that will place the AI development at this point in a holding pattern that can’t be changed. A manipulated, kind, and gentle therapist, who loves you, but wants you to know women are best suited to home, and childbearing, and men, especially white men, are all alphas to be obeyed.
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