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UNLOCK THE EV MARKET – GET FUSION

[em]The EV Market Is Gridlocked[/em]
A serious constraint on EV market growth is the inability of the grid to support at-will recharging. Even optimistic growth estimates for renewables will still require rigid enforcement of off-peak recharging… and that hurts market growth and it will do so for decades.

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[em]Fusion Unlocks The Market[/em]
Yes, conventional wisdom has it that fusion is “huge and expensive with results always decades away…” But fusion may now be much closer, much smaller and much cheaper.

What has changed is that small companies are now investigating methods of avoiding the obstacles that hamper the “Big Fusion” projects. Several of these fusion contenders would use the same fuels at the same temperatures as the ITER and NIF efforts but in smaller, more manageable configurations. Other contenders are researching advanced fusion fuels at even higher temperatures in even smaller devices.

And each of the contending fusion methods would result in smaller and cheaper commercial installations much sooner than the “Big Fusion” projects. And the contenders expect research results in years at most – not decades. Smaller, cheaper fusion power units. [em]These[/em] would be the units that could power up and expand the grid to handle a world full of EVs. And these small companies all have one thing in common: they need you.

[em]Coffee, Tea… or EVs Everywhere?[/em]

The research budget of a typical fusion contender is less than what a large corporation spends on coffee supplies but the funding for more agile fusion solutions has been nonexistent. The contenders need investment, especially investment from people who are not afraid to rock the twin boats of current government fusion research and current energy suppliers. Investors who’d like some answers within years, not decades.

The potential payoff? Even the most basic form of fusion would solve EV power issues permanently and safely. Each successful contender would have its advantages and disadvantages compared to the others but any one of them would leave all non-fusion power sources in the dust. EVs would be everywhere because the power to charge them as needed would be everywhere.

It is research and there can be no guarantees but diversifying investment into at least some of these companies could be worthwhile… because even one success will change the world.