Licube wants to be the fuel provider to the fusion power industry — see how at TechCrunch Disrupt

If fusion power pans out, and there are signs that it will, the world will need a lot more lithium.

That’s the bet behind Licube, a startup that has licensed technology from Hirosaki University in Japan, to purify lithium-6, the form of lithium that fusion plants need to make their own fuel, out of naturally occurring lithium.

The reason comes down to the fuel supply. A lot of things have to go right for fusion power to hit the grid…