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General Fusion is a Canadian company based in Burnaby, British Columbia, which was created for the development of fusion power based on magnetized target fusion (MTF).〔("This machine might * save the world" ), Josh Dean, ''Popular Science'', 23 December 2008〕〔("Looking for a net gain in the energy sector" ), Tyler Hamilton, ''Toronto Star'', 20 April 2009〕〔("Garage scientist aims to thwart OPEC" ), Nathan VanderKlippe, ''Financial Post'', 16 November 2007〕 they were developing subsystems for use in a prototype to be built later. The company is funded by a variety of investors, including Chrysalix venture capital, the Business Development Bank of Canada—a Canadian Crown corporation, Bezos Expeditions, Cenovus Energy, Growthworks, Khazanah Nasional—a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund, and Sustainable Development Technology Canada.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=GeneralFusion.com )〕 ==Funding== Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital, a Vancouver-based venture capital firm, led a C$1.2 million seed round of financing for General Fusion in 2007.〔〔("More money for fusion energy" ), Michael Kanellos, CNet news.com, 5 September 2007〕〔Chrysalix is funded by a number of investors including several energy firms; its investors are listed on (Chrysalix' website" )〕 General Fusion remained in Chrysalix' portfolio.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=chrysalix.com )〕 Other Canadian venture capital firms that participated in the seed round were GrowthWorks Capital and BDC Venture Capital. In 2009 a consortium led by General Fusion was awarded C$13.9 million by Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) to conduct a four-year research project on "Acoustically Driven Magnetized Target Fusion";〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Round 13 Funded Projects ) Press release.〕 SDTC is a foundation established by the Canadian government.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Media Backgrounder: Sustainable Development Technology Canada )〕 The other members of the consortium are Los Alamos National Laboratory and Powertech Labs Inc.〔 , General Fusion had received $45 million in venture capital and $10 million in government funding. In May 2015 the government of Malaysia invested $27 million. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「General Fusion」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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