The founder of family office Hawkes Financial LLC, Arthur “Art” J. Samberg invests primarily in start-ups in the technology sector. In connection with these investments, Art Samberg is chairman of the board of Tri Alpha Energy, Inc., a start-up tech firm based in Rancho Santa Margarita, California. With $500 million in private capital, the firm is the largest private fusion company on earth.

1. TRI ALPHA ENERGY’S TWO CHALLENGES
Art Samberg

2. INTRODUCTION
 The founder of family office Hawkes Financial LLC, Arthur “Art” J.
Samberg invests primarily in start-ups in the technology sector. In
connection with these investments, Art Samberg is chairman of
the board of Tri Alpha Energy, Inc., a start-up tech firm based in
Rancho Santa Margarita, California. With $500 million in private
capital, the firm is the largest private fusion company on earth.
Tri Alpha aims to provide a globally disruptive, clean fusion
energy through the development a commercially viable fusion
power plant. To this end it has produced an innovative
combination of leading-edge particle accelerator and plasma
physics.
In its quest, one of two challenges facing the company is the
fundamental scientific obstacle of maintaining a stable high-
energy plasma “long enough” in the containing core vessel.

3. TRI ALPHA ENERGY
 The company was able to achieve this in June 2015, for a
mere five milliseconds, but enough to prove it can be
done for an unlimited time, and the firm has since
increased this to over 11 milliseconds.
The second challenge is to produce the plasma “hot
enough” so that the fusion reaction can generate more
energy than what is required for it to function. The
company’s actual performance data as well as its
advanced modeling show that Tri Alpha’s plasma will have
improved performance at higher and higher temperatures.
The firm is allocating $200 million to create a new
machine named C-2W to substantiate these observations
in the coming three to four years.