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Oil hit $100 a barrel again today. Unfortunately, oil supply disruptions and the economic turmoil that comes with it are becoming more normal. Oil is one of those things that the rest of the economy depends on. When oil becomes more expensive, the effects ripple into our everyday lives: transportation costs, food prices, electricity prices, shipping, and beyond. Fusion will create a similar ripple effect, but in the opposite direction. Cheap, abundant energy lowers the cost of everything that depends on it. It expands what is economically possible. Fusion is the only energy technology with the potential to deliver power at a truly global scale: terawatts of clean, firm electricity that does not depend on fuel shipments, fragile supply chains, or contested international geography. It has the potential to change not just how we power our homes and industries, but what humanity can build. Throughout history, breakthroughs in energy have unlocked entirely new eras of economic growth and human progress. Fusion has the potential to do the same. It is a foundational technology whose greatest applications may be the ones we can't even see yet. That is the future we are working toward at Helion. The promise of fusion and what it enables: energy security, climate security, economic security, national security. They're all connected.

Hello Seattle! Over the past four years, Helion has grown from 80 employees to 800 at our headquarters in Everett. Today, the Business Team is moving into our new Seattle office to allow for continued growth across the company.

Building something new, especially something as ambitious as commercial fusion, comes with scrutiny. That scrutiny is valuable. It forces clarity, sharpens execution, and keeps the bar high as we work toward putting electricity on the grid. At Helion , the mandate is straightforward and demanding: deliver against milestones with rigor, and make decisions that hold up technically, financially, and commercially. Thank you to Ryohtaroh Satoh and the Financial Times for the thoughtful conversation. I appreciate the continued dialogue on fusion’s role in delivering clean, abundant energy. https://lnkd.in/gjcxpU6w

Great to see this story highlight an important part of Helion’s mission! Technical milestones are critical, but they are only one piece of the job. The real work is building fusion in a way that can scale, because if it only works once or only leads to one plant, we have not accomplished the mission. That long-term view and focus on global deployment have to be built in from the beginning! Thanks to Lisa Stiffler and GeekWire for including Helion in the Sustainability Spotlight! https://lnkd.in/gjgG9WiQ