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.