To help fusion energy observers get a better handle on our industry’s progress, I’m detailing the six steps every fusion company must take on the path to delivering power competitively. Today, I’m digging into the second step: get your fusion fuel hot enough.
For fuel, fusion energy requires a very energetic cloud of charged particles called a plasma. Step one is making one – that was the previous milestone. Step two, if your fusion machine is able to heat a plasma up to 10 million degrees, it shows your machine has some promise to make a plasma that could someday sustain fusion reactions. Many different types of machines have crossed this threshold, including the type we’re using at @CFS_energy, called a tokamak.
We’re sharing this because we want to help people watching our industry — investors, the press, science fans, policymakers, and increasingly the general public — appreciate the real progress while not falling for empty hype.
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Not trying to be excessively combative but I think a prior step should be show you have affordable and reliable fuelsources. For example, the Tritium to start these factors is neither cheap nor plentiful, last I heard. And anybody using Helium-3 has it worse. Your thoughts?
Sep 8, 2025 · 5:48 PM UTC



