Spark

2 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 18, 2025 by Rick Needham · across every show →

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Jun 18, 2025 bullish

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Needham: SPARC reactor targets 100MW thermal power with 10x energy gain

“That'll produce about a hundred megawatts of thermal power. So a lot like 500 to a thousand times what the national ignition facility did, like a substantial amount of power. And his design point is actually a gain of like 10, so 10 times, actually it's 11 mor…”

Rick Needham Jun 18, 2025 ▶ 19:16 The tape that led to a fusion breakthrough

Jun 18, 2025 bullish

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Needham: CFS ARC commercial plant will generate 400MW electric and 1GW thermal

“Spark is the, you know, the basis of our power plant, which we call ARC, and that'll be a 400 megawatt electric plant, a one gigawatt thermal plant”

Rick Needham Jun 18, 2025 ▶ 20:27 The tape that led to a fusion breakthrough

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