Realta Fusion

Great things can happen when you combine leaders in completely different fields. We feel that is what is happening at TitletownTech. This leading Midwestern venture capital firm was born out of a strategic partnership between Microsoft and the Green Bay Packers. Today we are announcing that Titletown Tech has invested in Realta Fusion. We’re delighted to have this stand-out Wisconsin-based investor join Team Realta! Craig Dickman and Jill Enos have already leaned in, bringing their extensive experience and powerful network to advance us down the path to commercial fusion energy. They see great potential for Realta to power the next generation of data centers and for Wisconsin to play a central role in the nascent fusion industry. Glad to have TTT on our team! #fusionenergy #datacenters

Cloud computing and fusion energy have a symbiotic relationship. Right now, developers of fusion energy technology (like us!) need massive amounts of computing power and AI/ML to run plasma simulations and to design functioning fusion power plants. The huge data centers needed to power voracious AI engines and crunch all of humanity’s data will demand zero carbon fusion energy alongside intermittent renewables. Realta Fusion’s Sam Frank and Kieran Furlong spoke this week at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) #awsreInvent conference in Las Vegas. As one of the inaugural Compute for Climate fellows, Realta Fusion has worked closely with AWS to be the first company to run the extremely compute-intensive particle-in-cell simulation in the cloud. Thanks to Lisbeth Kaufman, Mark Sauceda, Faraz Ahmad and everyone at AWS who helped us achieve this notable first and for the invitation to present it to the cloud computing community. #fusionenergy

Great to have this Clean Air Task Force report featured in Baku at COP29 Azerbaijan. Realta Fusion's work with Amazon Web Services (AWS) is highlighted in a case study in the report. A big shout out to our lead Computational Physicist Sam Frank for spearheading this work. Quote from the report: Realta used this support to become the first fusion company to execute a general-purpose Particle-In-Cell (PIC) simulation on cloud resources for their WHAM machine, using Amazon Web Services (AWS)’s cloud computing platform. “We run PIC simulations because they let us define orbits within plasmas, which is key to studying stability— something that simpler models can’t do. PIC is absolutely massive amounts of compute... AWS was able to provide the capacity we needed to push forward with our simulations” explained Realta’s CEO Kieran Furlong.

We're in good company in this article. Great to see the diversity of approaches being tried for commercial fusion energy. It will be interesting to look back in 20 years and see which ones made the cut.

We are proud to celebrate this exciting news! Ben Lindley, co-founder of Realta Fusion and Assistant Professor at UW-Madison College of Engineering has been named to #NuclearNews' 40 under 40! Ben joins a highly talented and esteemed group who are driving remarkable success developing new technologies and innovations in the field of fusion energy, ML and AI, fusion technology, and several other areas that have already accumulated highly commendable achievements and advancements from their collective R&D efforts. Congratulations Ben!! #fusionenergy #fusiontechnology https://lnkd.in/eMSpn7kB

Today Realta Fusion travels to TitletownTech in Green Bay for the #2024TechShowcase. Dominick Bindl, VP of Technical Development, will share Realta’s journey and discuss innovations in fusion energy technology to power our future across a range of scales from datacenters to large industrial users. #fusionenergy #magneticmirror #TitletownTech #GreenBay

Meet the Realta Fusion team on November 13-14 at the Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium #ESSWI – sponsored by the Wisconsin Technology Council! Connect with Leonardo Reis, Business Development Manager and Toni Hofhine, VP of Business Operations to learn more about Realta’s journey and our innovative approach to fusion energy – a compact and scalable fusion system designed for decarbonizing industrial heat and power across a range of uses from datacenters to large industrial processes. #datacenters #fusionenergy #scalablesolutions

From Realta Fusion’s founding, we have committed to open-science development. By publishing our scientific progress in peer-reviewed journals, we invite the plasma physics research community and broader public to check our work and follow our progress.  Congratulations to Sam Frank and Jesse Viola with Realta Fusion, Yuri Petrov with CompX, and the whole Realta Team who successfully delivered Realta’s first technical Department of Energy milestone! In just one year, the Realta Fusion team condensed the advancements made in the past 40 years of fusion research into our first-of-a-kind RealTwin™ integrated computational model for Hammir, our magnetic mirror fusion pilot plant. Their findings, "Integrated modeling of equilibrium and transport in axisymmetric magnetic mirror fusion devices" have been submitted to the Journal of Plasma Physics and are now publicly available: https://lnkd.in/g4eereaV. This paper lays out the physics basis for Hammir, our magnetic mirror fusion pilot plant. Hammir uses bleeding edge technologies to revitalize one of the leading fusion concepts of the 20th century. This will deliver cost competitive heat and/or power across a range of scales from datacenters to large industrial users. #RealTwin #datacenters #magneticmirror #Hammir

We celebrate the in-person gathering of plasma physics researchers in Malaysia to discuss results and share the latest in technology concepts at the 8th Annual Association of Asia Pacific Physics Society - Division of Plasma Physics Conference (#AAPPSDPP2024)! Cary Forest expanded on the open conversation following his presentation “First Results from the Wisconsin HTS Axisymmetric Mirror (WHAM)”. #WHAM #fusionenergy #plasmaphysics #RealtaFusion #UWMadPhysics

Excitement this week at the 8th Annual @Association of Asia Pacific Physics Society Division of Plasma Physics Conference (#AAPPSDPP2024) in Malacca, Malaysia - a major platform for interdisciplinary sharing of the latest in plasma physics and technology. Cary Forest, Realta Fusion's Co-Founder, CSO & University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Physics Professor presents “First Results from the Wisconsin HTS Axisymmetric Mirror (WHAM)” on November 4th in Ballroom 2. #WHAM #plasmaphysics #fusionenergy #AAPPS