This project seeks to play a role in making fusion energy a reality, a big step in energy decarbonization. The project is in collaboration with General Fusion, based in British Columbia, where a fusion reactor is being designed, based on a spinning cylinder of liquid lithium which is mechanically collapsed around a plasma to produce fusion, releasing energy the same way as the sun.
One design challenge is for the lithium to be collapsed perfectly, since any asymmetry in the collapse leads to inadequate pressure and temperature for fusion.