Wal van Lierop
@WalvanLierop
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President & CEO at Chrysalix Venture Capital, award-winning business leader and visionary in innovation, sustainability and cleantech.
Vancouver, British Columbia
Joined June 2013
AI is driving power demand up, household bills higher, and job displacement faster. Will The Next Revolution Be Artificial - Or French? See @forbes
https://t.co/nq29GljS1J
#AI #EnergyTransition #FusionEnergy #Inequality #Geopolitics #FutureOfWork #CleanEnergy #Forbes
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Could the exploding demand for energy, a critical enabler of the AI revolution, drive a new wave of innovation that resembles the historic French Revolution?
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The world is increasingly moving from paying Green Premiums, to paying Fossil Premiums. See my latest article in @forbes
https://t.co/Nb8Ui1fSJR
#cleantech #energytransition #greenpremium #BYD #GM #Lazard #MichaelLiebreich #McKinsey #BloombergNEF #Economist #IEA
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The energy transformation is moving forward. In many cases Green Premiums are not necessary any longer. Instead, Fossil Premiums are now used to protect old industries.
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Gyrokinetics plays a critical role in optimizing plasma performance. Our latest peer-reviewed paper, published in Nuclear Fusion, highlights the exceptional work of our team in collaboration with @GeneralAtomics:
iopscience.iop.org
ITG turbulence in gyrokinetic simulations of high collisionality spherical tokamak plasmas, Kumar, N., Avdeeva, G., Candy, J., Reynolds, M., Belli, E., McNally, C.P.
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Read the open-access paper and see below an example of our team's advanced simulation work illustrating the plasma behaviour shown in this research. #fusionenergy
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How To Become An Energy Superpower via @forbes
https://t.co/K2PRCLP2ko
#IEA #FusionEnergy #CBC #fosilfuels #LNG #oil&gas #BloombergNEF #NYTimes #TheEconomist #energytransition
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Four key conditions to become a future energy superpower
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The team behind the progress! 🏆 Operating a fusion machine takes deep experience, precision, and tenacity. Our incredible team of physicists, engineers, & technicians are doing ground-breaking work every day to drive us toward a more sustainable future powered by #fusionenergy.
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“If General Fusion can succeed, the future of energy won’t just be clean and abundant. It will be Canadian.” We’re honoured to be recognized as one of Canada’s most ambitious companies & featured as a World Saver in @BetaKit's special issue out this week. 🇨🇦
There is a story we tell ourselves. It says great things aren’t possible here. Forget that story. It’s time to tell a different one. Introducing BetaKit Most Ambitious, telling stories of bold ambition in Canadian tech. Read it now: https://t.co/0SnWBmcjIP
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After just four months of operation, LM26 is consistently creating high-quality plasmas with the lifetimes we need to achieve our next milestone: 1 keV.
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Take a look 👀 The new lithium liner for LM26 is installed in the machine, and final preparations are underway for our next plasma compression shot. Stay tuned!
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Can Canada win the fusion race? @CBCNews reporter @JWagstaffe visited our labs to see our LM26 fusion machine operating at our Richmond facility. We're proud to be a leading #fusionenergy company with 20+ years of tech development here in Canada! Watch:
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We are at a crossroads. We stand as a #fusionenergy leader on the cusp of our most exciting milestone yet—and one of the most challenging financial moments in our history. We need bold new investors. Please read an open letter from our CEO Greg Twinney:
generalfusion.com
General Fusion has been at the forefront of fusion technology development for more than 20 years. Today, we stand as a world leader on the cusp of our most exciting technical milestone yet—and one of...
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With our LM26 casting operations in full swing, our team is busy testing each process for creating the liners before installing the first one in our fusion demonstration machine. Stay tuned!
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LM26 is now forming plasmas, and we're fast preparing for the next major step: compressing plasmas with a lithium liner to create fusion and heating! A unique element of our fusion demonstration program is our liner casting operations:
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Liberation Day or Ruination! RIP, Net-Zero 2050 via @forbes
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📢 Today, we are thrilled to announce former @blueorigin CEO Bob Smith has joined us as a strategic advisor. Bob joins @GeneralFusion at a critical and exciting time in the demonstration of our practical MTF technology with our large-scale LM26 machine.
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📢 Exciting update: LM26 has achieved first plasma! Just 16 months after we launched our world-first fusion demonstration program, we are excited to announce that LM26 has successfully formed a magnetized plasma in the machine’s target chamber and is now forming plasmas daily.
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Thank you for visiting, Minister @Diana_Gibson_BC! We recently welcomed B.C.’s Minister of Jobs, Economic Development, and Innovation to our facility to see LM26. This transformative machine puts B.C. at the forefront of the global race to commercialize clean #fusionenergy.
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The next steps are installing our first suite of diagnostics and connecting the pulse power control systems. Stay tuned! #TechTuesday #CanadianInnovation #fusionenergy
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LM26 update! Here’s a look at what we’ve been up to after completing the machine assembly last month. First, we insulated the machine and heated it under vacuum to conduct a “bake-out” process.
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Wal van Lierop and Svante Recognized for Cleantech Excellence @svantesolutions @WalvanLierop #bctech @cleantechgroup
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At the opening night of Cleantech Forum North America, Cleantech Group honored eight outstanding visionaries advancing sustainable innovation at an awards dinner. Among the honorees were seven...
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