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If you follow our team, hopefully you won't be surprised to hear that we stand behind the principles outlined in this recent letter from Commonwealth Fusion Systems. Publishing peer-reviewed results is critical at this stage, and in our own best interests at that.

Fusion energy is key to solving our current climate crisis. So it’s critical that the fusion industry works together to build public trust. To do that, we must standardize how we evaluate progress. Every fusion concept naturally passes milestones that show it has a viable source of fusion energy and it can commercialize that fusion energy. To help motivate our industry to work together toward this common good, I’ve detailed the standardized approach we use internally to track the ecosystem. Hopefully this is helpful to investors, press, regulators, and the public to use to evaluate real progress. Further, CFS commits to focusing on  company milestone announcements that are: ✔ Easy to measure and interpret ✔ Peer reviewed, as the norm ✔ Shared and celebrated publicly ✔ Easy to understand The path to fusion is paved with extraordinary potential for climate and energy, and while we race against time to make fusion a reality we must also get it right. I urge my colleagues and peers to hold ourselves accountable to science, engineering, and commercial progress. A rising tide lifts all boats. Read my full open letter below and let me know what you think. https://lnkd.in/ejiwP3fz

McKane Lee

"Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest Star." -Dirac

2w

Why regulate a system when it’s not even sustainable yet using prior art technology? Seems like the cart before the horse…

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Arash Tavassoli

Computational Physicist (PhD)

1w

So true! Ideally no fusion scientist should be made to sign an IP agreement. IPs just make the existing problem harder.

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