![]() ![]() Less than two miles away, Helion Energy has its own facility, purchased from a Boeing contractor and housing its own operational fusion prototype built in part by aerospace veterans. Zap isn’t the only fusion company fishing in aviation’s talent pool. ![]() “It requires a little bit of retooling and retraining but you can transfer a lot of those skills.” “If you squint hard enough, building a fusion system is not that different from building an airplane,” he tells Spectrum on a visit in June. ![]() The unglamorous location is no accident, says Derek Sutherland, Zap’s senior research scientist. A sleepy strip mall beside Boeing’s sprawling campus in Everett, WA isn’t necessarily where you’d expect to find technology promising to harness the power of the sun, release humanity from the grip of fossil fuels, and unlock an estimated US $40 trillion market.īut here, and in an even more anonymous office park nearby, startup Zap Energy is trialing a prototype reactor that is already producing high-energy neutrons from nuclear fusion-if not yet enough to send power back into the grid. The future of carbon-free energy smells like teriyaki and sounds like a low-flying 737. ![]()
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