Martin Kubie

Martin Kubie (Proxima Fusion): Building Fusion Power Plants from Europe

Martin Kubie, co-founder and chief engineer at Proxima Fusion, explains how the Max Planck Institute spin-out is designing what it believes will be the first generation of fusion power plants using stellarators. He covers why Europe is the right place to build the company, energy sovereignty and compute bottlenecks, the three pillars of risk (scientific, technical, commercial), the new RWE partnership on a decommissioned fission site, magnet R&D in Switzerland, and the Alpha demonstrator machine. He lays out the roadmap to a first-of-a-kind plant, the goal of 50 plants by 2050, and his view that a fusion company can be a trillion-dollar, full-stack energy platform.

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