Antora Energy packed a South Dakota field with more than 200 boxes of hot carbon. The surprise is not the heat. It is the contract, the utility rate, and the factory that made continuous industrial energy possible.
Most fusion companies bend plasma into a ring. Realta Fusion is betting that a straight magnetic bottle - built for industrial heat first - can make the economics less contorted.
Zero Industrial is a Charleston, South Carolina developer that decarbonizes industrial heat using thermal energy storage (TES). Instead of burning gas, oil or coal to make heat and steam, its systems charge on cheap off-peak or curtailed clean electricity and discharge it as high-temperature heat. The company finances, builds and operates each project itself, then sells clean heat or steam to factories under long-term Heat-as-a-Service contracts with no upfront capital required from the customer.