Videos
Technical videos
Intended audience: scientists, engineers and college students, although not necessarily specialists of fusion, superconductors or liquid metals
Nathaniel BAKER-WOLFF, Thick and Flowing Free-Surface Liquid Metal Walls for Fusion
Fusion Energy Webinars organized by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
2024/10/24 - 1 hour 4 minutes, including Q&A
Francesco VOLPE, HTS Stellarators with Liquid Metal Walls
Convegno “La Fusione Nucleare: Scienza e Tecnologia” organizzato dall’Accademia dei Lincei
2024/10/18, Rome -25 minutes, including Q&A
Francesco VOLPE, High-field Stellarators with Liquid Metal Walls
Seminar at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
2022/07/08, Trieste - 1 hour 17 minutes
Jump to specific chapters:
3:00 Fusion
10:20 Plasma confinement
17:00 Motivation at Renaissance Fusion
25:12 Simpler HTS manufacturing
35:25 Liquid Metal walls
43:45 Synergies among the 3 technologies
44:53 Progress as of July 2022
1:00:50 Roadmap to fusion energy
Semi-technical videos
for investors, other stakeholders and the broader public
Victor PROST, The only approach to low-cost fusion electricity, 24/7
DNFE³ – Decarbonization Nuclear Fusion Economy & Energy Entrepreneurship Congress 2024
2024/12/17, Terrassa, Barcelona - 13 minutes
Francesco VOLPE, Europe's Deeptech Meetup - Renaissance Fusion
Speedy responses to the questions: (i) Introduce yourself and your company; (ii) How do you address current challenges in your industry? Spoiler alert: the challenges of HTS stellarators are complexity, scarcity (of HTS) and extreme conditions. Organized by BPI France.
2024/05/23, Paris - 3 minutes
Francesco VOLPE, Toward Stellarator Modules via HTS and Liquid Walls
Rehearsal -published on Renaissance Fusion’s YouTube page- of a pitch for Sifted’s Deeptech Pitch Day
2024/03/26 - 6 minutes
Nuclear Fusion with Francesco VOLPE, Renaissance Fusion | Hello Tomorrow Global Summit 2023
Fireside chat moderated by Greg DE TEMMERMAN (Managing Director, Zenon Research)
2023/03/09, Paris - 31 minutes
Jump to specific questions:
1:10 What is fusion?
2:10 How can we realize fusion on earth?
3:57 What are the advantages compared to other energy sources?
5:30 Historically, fusion was publicly funded. Why is it now switching to private capital and startups?
7:09 What technical breakthroughs enabled this transition?
9:35 Why are most fusion start-ups in the USA, despite the majority of fusion research taking place in Europe?
11:55 Is Europe catching up?
12:49 Why did you choose France for Renaissance Fusion?
13:50 What challenges does fusion present to investors?
15:45 Are there spin-offs to de-risk fusion investments?
17:38 What technical challenges remain on the way to a commercial reactor?
20:18 Do fusion start-ups compete or collaborate with each other?
22:20 Why invest in long-term fusion, instead of established energy sources?
24:19 When can we expect commercial fusion?
26:40 Is a fusion reactor as capital-intensive as conventional fission, or more modular, like an SMR?
28:50 If you had unlimited funding, how would you accelerate fusion development?
29:38 Is the appetite of investors still strong in fusion?