The Bell2Bell (B2B) Podcast · 2026-07-10 · 23 min
NetworkNewsWire Editorial Coverage: The United States military is the largest single institutional consumer of oil on the planet, and that dependency has become one of the most serious strategic vulnerabilities in modern defense. Every gallon that reaches a forward base must travel through a supply chain that can be disrupted, intercepted or destroyed. Multiple critical civilian sectors face a parallel problem: construction, desalination, space exploration and telecommunications all operate in environments where reliable high-density power is either unavailable or dangerously exposed. American Fusion Inc. (OTC: AMFN) (Profile), through its wholly owned subsidiary, Kepler Fusion(TM), is developing the Texatron(TM), a compact, aneutronic (little to no radiation) truck-deployable fusion engine(TM) designed to produce anywhere from .5 MW to over 100 MW of clean power without turbines, steam cycles or vulnerable fuel supply chains. The scale of the U.S. military’s petroleum dependency is striking.