If you're good with social media and are psyched by the prospect of using zero-carbon fusion energy to fight climate change, good news — we're hiring someone to work with me and others at Commonwealth Fusion Systems. We're a startup, but we're not vaporware: our factory is cranking out superconducting magnets and our first tokamak is under construction. HMU if you're curious, but here's the job post.
Using AI to oversee dynamic fusion machines is a hot area of research. It doesn't mean generative AI like ChatGPT. It's old-school AI, where you train a machine to recognize patterns in complex real-world data then let it make decisions.
Due to my new position, I am interacting a lot with Ukrainian #fusion scientists. After today's meeting, I was heartbroken and in awe of the heroism of the Ukrainian scientists who are repairing their reactor damaged by Russian aggression. This was in one of the slides.
Batteries are growing on the grid to handle evening power use surges when solar peters out. California just hit 7GW out of 10GW capacity. Our house is battery powered from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. and will be part of a virtual power plant soon.
Hard to express just how impressed I am with the breadth and depth of the CFS operations, manufacturing, and planning that I glimpsed of here at the #CFSShowtime all-hands. Mind 70% expanded, mind 30% blown. #fusion#fusionenergy#power#EnergyTransition
Bob Mumgaard, CEO of Commonwealth Fusion Systems: It took a 700-page pitch deck and year of due diligence to win over investors, because of course there are no fusion power plants yet.
"You need to get people to believe," Mumgaard said today. "If you don't have the actual thing, the next best thing you do is you can do the hard work of pulling out the science, pulling out the advisors, pulling out the due diligence — pulling the whole thing together and painting that picture." #energy#fusion
My favorite #boots: jika tabi popular with construction workers in #Japan that I modified with tanker boot straps and rechargeable LED lights on the heels. Keeps me visible walking or biking around traffic.
The theme for #WorldHealthDay today is, "My Health, My Right." How well have your governments granted you clean air, or fresh and affordable nutrition?
How have they contributed to your mental health? Your dental health? Is that even covered under Medicare?
You have the right to demand more from your governments #MyRight
Smiling at my $40 monthly electric bill here in Hawaii, where rates are the highest in the nation.
With rooftop PV, my electricity has negative cost during the day - I run dishwasher & washer/dryer when the sun is out, and the excess gets sold back to Kauai's utility co-op. So I only pay for power at night.