A new book shows how energy companies are creating commercial nuclear power to tackle climate change

The approach of identifying and investing in solutions addressing the biggest problems has led Future Planet Capital to invest in Tokamak Energy, which aims to develop commercial fusion energy for global deployment in the 2030s. In his book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, Bill Gates states that the key solution to avoid a climate disaster is to convert everything to electric power (e.g. automobiles) and make electricity from renewable sources. However, he mentions that solar and wind energy are not efficient renewable sources because of their high land use. Hence, according to Gates, we do not have enough land to get all our electricity from these sources. The solution that could make a difference is nuclear energy – especially energy generated by nuclear fusion. This might require some explanation.

Nuclear fission is the process that regular nuclear reactors work on which involves taking very heavy atoms such as uranium and splitting them into smaller atoms to release their energy. Fusion, on the other hand, takes very light atoms, for example, hydrogen, and fuses those together to form slightly heavier elements, such as helium. Fusion is the process that powers the sun and the stars in the universe. In the very hot and...

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