Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. A worker assembles a huge impedance-matched Marx generator, which will be used to send powerful electrical pulses to the heart of Pacific Fusion’s machine.Credit: Pacific Fusion A company called Pacific Fusion has started to build a
Los Lunas, New Mexico A company has started to build a fusion machine that it hopes will be the first to generate more energy than it consumes, thanks to the use of immense pulses of electricity to squeeze capsules of hydrogen fuel. The billion-dollar facility, which will sit down the road from a major US