BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20221106T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20230215T032107Z UID:92E4265E-DE9A-4D9B-B3E6-38F3D2C8916E DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230214T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230214T170000 DESCRIPTION:Nuclear Fusion has advanced significantly in the past 20 years from a university-driven\, academic\, government-funded field to a private \, privately funded industry. Today there are more than 30 firms around th e world with stated plans to build the world’s first power producing fus ion power plant. These companies have raised over 5 billion dollars in pri vate capital and in November 2021\, private investment into fusion surpass ed government funding into fusion for the first time in US history. Certai nly\, many of these firms will fail\, due to the high risk\, but if one fi rm succeeds it would offer the world a fundamentally new energy source. NL F Consulting was founded in 2018 to help investors understand the field of nuclear fusion. The firm assembles teams of fusion subject matter experts (mostly retired staff from academia\, government laboratories and industr y) to assess the quality of startup pitches on behalf of investors. NLF ha s worked with Honda\, Westinghouse\, the Naval Research Laboratory\, and o ther organizations to navigate this space. In this talk\, the founder of N LF will walk through the kinds of questions that investors ask when evalua ting fusion as an investment opportunity and will lay out good resources ( books\, etc..) for outsider who are trying to get involved with this field . The talk will also discuss the broad industry trend of adding supercondu cting wire and magnet to existing fusion approaches and what that means fo r future fusion devices.\n\nCo-sponsored by: IEEE Power and Energy Society \n\nSpeaker(s): Dr. Matthew Moynihan\, \n\nVirtual: https://events.vtools. ieee.org/m/342241 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/342241 ORGANIZER:mike.brisbois@ieee.org SEQUENCE:7 SUMMARY:Fusion Energy URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/342241 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>Nuclear Fusion has advanced significantly in the past 20 years from a university-driven\, academic\, government-fund ed field to a private\, privately funded industry. Today there are more th an 30 firms around the world with stated plans to build the world&rsquo\;s first power producing fusion power plant. These companies have raised ove r 5 billion dollars in private capital and in November 2021\, private inve stment into fusion surpassed government funding into fusion for the first time in US history. Certainly\, many of these firms will fail\, due to the high risk\, but if one firm succeeds it would offer the world a fundament ally new energy source. NLF Consulting was founded in 2018 to help investo rs understand the field of nuclear fusion. The firm assembles teams of fus ion subject matter experts (mostly retired staff from academia\, governmen t laboratories and industry) to assess the quality of startup pitches on b ehalf of investors. NLF has worked with Honda\, Westinghouse\, the Naval R esearch Laboratory\, and other organizations to navigate this space. In th is talk\, the founder of NLF will walk through the kinds of questions that investors ask when evaluating fusion as an investment opportunity and wil l lay out good resources (books\, etc..) for outsider who are trying to ge t involved with this field. The talk will also discuss the broad industry trend of adding superconducting wire and magnet to existing fusion approac hes and what that means for future fusion devices.</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR