How do we build a world with abundant, affordable, carbon-free electricity?
That’s the question at the heart of Good Clean Energy, a podcast featuring interviews with scientists, innovators and energy experts working to transform the energy ecosystem and tackle climate change.
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How do we build a world with abundant, affordable, carbon-free electricity?
That’s the question at the heart of Good Clean Energy, a podcast featuring interviews with scientists, innovators and energy experts working to transform the energy ecosystem and tackle climate change.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Good Clean Energy is a podcast that tackles one of the most existential questions of our time: how to build a world with abundant, affordable, carbon-free electricity. This season we’re going to unpack what TAE is working on to make fusion energy a reality.
In this episode, TAE CEO Michl Binderbauer dives deep into a specific fusion machine design called the Field-Reversed Configuration that TAE has pursued since the company's inception. He explains how the FRC works, its unique advantages, and how it differs from other magnetic-confinement approaches by allowing the plasma to generate its own magnetic field, reducing the need for expensive and cumbersome external magnets. Binderbauer details the difficulties of working with FRCs and describes the breakthroughs TAE has made in simplifying and stabilizing the process, paving the way for more practical and economically viable fusion power plants.
(00:41) Field-Reversed Configuration Explained
(01:51) Challenges and Solutions in FRC
(03:29) Technical Deep Dive into FRC
(06:04) Innovations and Achievements in FRC
Learn more: TAE Delivers Fusion Breakthrough that Dramatically Reduces Cost of a Future Power Plant
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