Revolutionizing Fusion Energy with AI

A short story about us

NYC & Oxford based founders with proven energy, tech and financial sector experience.

Laurelin is named for one of the two trees of Valinor from Tolkien's Legendarium. The golden tree seems a fitting name for a company that specialized in Fusion energy, the same energy that powers the sun.

Joseph S. Finberg, CEO

Joseph (Joe) Finberg is a fusion Researcher with 4 years of experience in Fusion energy research and 6+ in quantitative trading. BA In Physics and Political Science From Columbia University. (2024), Year Abroad at Oxford during which time he staffed at the Oxford Union and did research on gyrokinetic turbulence in Oxford's physics department.

Ian Hause is a Professional with over 10 years in financial investing and structuring specifically in traditional and renewable energy. MBA from USC (2023)

Ian P. Hause, COO

Brouch Epstein, CTO

Brouch Epstein is a Dphil candidate In materials science from University of Oxford specializing in reactor walls

We founded Laurelin to solve a problem, no one has been able to make Fusion produce positive amounts of energy, yet. Our stance is that this is not only possible but likely to succeed with sufficent application of Artificial intelligence models.

Fusion Can Solve the World's Problems

Joe realised early in his degree that much of global conflict is driven by competition among state actors for fossil fuels. By providing the US and Europe with a pathway to energy independence, these regions may distance themselves from entanglements in the Middle East, which have only served to fuel conflict and intensify anti-American and anti-Western sentiment, and necessitated the support of unpopular states in the region.

The ONLY Viable solution for Climate change

Due to baseload challenges and the inability of solar and wind power to generate sufficient electricity to meet demand, fission and fusion represent the only viable solutions for sustaining a certain standard of living whilst mitigating the effects of anthropogenic climate change. In spite of what the woke left says, 'degrowth' is not a feasible option in the West, in developing countries, or elsewhere. Nuclear energy, therefore, offers a pathway to widespread prosperity.

Why not Fission?

Fission has acquired a somewhat undeserved negative reputation. However, it is a fact that fission suffers from significant public relations challenges, issues associated with the storage of spent fuel and by‐products contaminated by the reactor, and restrictive government regulation.

In reality, fission is one of the safest and cleanest forms of energy ever discovered; nevertheless, it pales in comparison to fusion once the latter is fully operational, as fusion does not encounter these challenges.

Moreover, fission is a dual-use technology capable of contributing to the development of weaponry, whereas fusion does not allow for its peaceful by‐products to be converted into instruments of war.

Chernobyl dramatically added to Fission's PR Problem. But the main problem there was the dangerous RBMK reactor design.