Independent Fusion Systems Research House
Fusion Unlimited Net-positive Nuclear Yield. We work out where the power comes from.
The bright future we were promised — finally built.
A self-running outpost needs an always-on machine intelligence. That intelligence needs power. And on Mars — with three to twenty-two minutes of light-lag each way — no human can run a fusion plant, so the plant needs the intelligence too. Fusion powers the compute; the compute runs the fusion. It is the only energy topology that closes off-world.
We don’t claim fusion beats solar in sunlit orbit. It doesn’t. Our case is the surface — where a single dust storm cuts sunlight 80 to 90 percent for months, where the night is real, and where the load never sleeps. And we publish what the data refuses as readily as what it supports.
Can a reactor breed its own fuel from Martian ice? Deuterium–deuterium versus deuterium–tritium versus imported lithium. Self-sufficiency against plasma difficulty.
STAGE 0 · Sourcing the fuel → 02 / Surface PowerWhen does fusion overtake fission and solar on the Martian surface? And the question everyone asks first — why not just put the AI in orbit? An honest crossover, and why the surface wins on cooling.
Why Not Orbit? · The cooling inversion →Operating a steady-state plant with no engineer in the loop and a twenty-two-minute delay. The control system has to live on Mars.
FUNNY is an independent fusion systems research house. SpaceX moves the mass. Boring moves the dirt. xAI moves the bits. SCY:MO designs the ML backbone. We answer the question the roadmap skips: where does the power come from? We are not affiliated with the first three. The fourth is ours. We just do the math.
In 1965 the United States flew a nuclear reactor called SNAP‑10A and made electricity in orbit. It ran for forty‑three days, and then a voltage regulator — not the reactor — switched it off. The Atomic Age set space fission down and did not pick it back up.
We were founded three years earlier, in 1962, to take the idea past low Earth orbit. Then we took a break. A long one. We are back. The reactor was never the hard part — the part that failed was the part that was meant to be watching it. We have spent the years since thinking mostly about that part.