Focused Energy

Focused Energy is a laser fusion company founded in 2021 by Thomas Forner and Prof. Dr. Markus Roth, launched less than two weeks after the National Ignition Facility achieved scientific ignition. The company describes itself as building on that breakthrough with direct-drive laser fusion, aiming to deliver fusion energy to the world. Its team includes 160+ engineers, scientists and operators with backgrounds at NIF, LLE and ASML, and it announced a $240M Series A.

Focused Energy was launched less than two weeks after the National Ignition Facility achieved scientific ignition in August 2021. According to the company, Professor Dr. Markus Roth, a physicist whose work on laser-driven fusion was fundamental to the achievement, and Thomas Forner, an entrepreneur committed to bringing affordable, abundant and clean energy to the world, began meeting and announced the launch of Focused Energy, a laser fusion company building on the breakthrough at NIF. The company states that it grew from an idea to what it describes as the world's leading laser fusion company with 150+ scientific and engineering minds from around the globe. Its stated mission is powering the next step-function change for civilization, and it is commercializing the ignition breakthrough with direct-drive laser fusion.

Commercializing laser fusion ignition with the scientists behind the breakthrough and engineers building the first laser fusion power plant.

• 2022.02.17

  Reported2022.02.17

  Focused Energy appoints William Goldstein as external board member[4]Focused Energy 任命 William Goldstein 为外部董事会成员prnewswire.com

  Focused Energy added former Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory director William Goldstein as an external board member.

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1. 1Focused Energy — Laser Fusionfocused-energy.co
2. 2Focused Energy: Company — Laser Fusionfocused-energy.co
3. 3Focused Energywikidata.org
4. 4Focused Energy 任命 William Goldstein 为外部董事会成员prnewswire.com