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Major corporations, including Microsoft, Chevron, and Shell, are sending billions of dollars into the nuclear fusion field. When will it be commercially available?

The world needs fusion more than ever. For those in the hunt to harness nature’s most tantalizing and challenging energy source, the question is no longer how, but how soon?

More advances are needed, but scientists see path to abundant clean energy from nuclear fusion – in which atoms come together rather than split apart.

Insider asked 12 VCs at top firms for their picks for the most promising startups racing to make transportation and logistics more sustainable.

“There is no lone genius who solves all the problems.” Dennis Whyte, director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), is reflecting on a guiding belief behind his nuclear science and engineering class 22.63 (Principles of Fusion Engineering). He has recently watched his students, working in teams, make their final presentations on how to use fusion technology to create carbon-free fuel for shipping vessels. Since taking on the course over a decade ago, Whyte has moved away from stan...

This Startup Promises Unlimited Safe Clean Energy Via Nuclear Fusion In 2010, Brandon Sorbom graduated from Los Angeles’s Loyola Marymount University. Straight away, he flew to Boston with nothing but a “couple of thousand dollars” in savings and a credit card to try and get a job at MIT’s fusion energy lab. Sorbom had wanted to get his Ph.D. in nuclear fusion from the university but was rejected from all five programs, so this was his “Plan B.” MIT didn’t accept him because he di...