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TAE vs Helion in a nutshell, and indeed, Helion is on a faster track to commercial fusion electric power. The unknowing layman may do the reflection that the faster you push in the energy needed to reach the required conditions, the faster the instabilities should evolve. But I guess they have done...

Helion has publised an article on FRC instabilities: https://www.helionenergy.com/articles/a-note-on-frc-instabilities/ However, more detailed kinetic calculations that take the ion orbits into account, predict stability when certain conditions are met.2 Like spinning a top on your fingertip, rather...

Just to note for distant future reference, if they do cool the mantle and stop plate tectonics, carbon-based life is going to die out… Much more dangerous than Global Warming, though might take a while. Yep, it might. If humanity extracted the totality of the energy we are now using (about 20 TW by...

A post just a few hours old on the feedthrough Giorgio has been talking about earlier: https://twitter.com/AvalancheFusion/status/1771220645851922539 New High-Voltage feedthrough design and getting ready to try and go for lab record and Series A milestone of 300kV in a 6 cm radius fusion core. Previ...

This thing is starting to take up a lot of place at the KTH site in central Stockholm with around 100 employees and a world wide net of engaged expertise. Their website is swelling but somewhat too nebulous in my opinion. Here is a fresh interview with the founder: https://www.novatronfusion.com/new...

As you mentioned it is purely theoretical so far. They transferred the math from existing and proven phenomena of "waves behaviors" from other fields to the electrostatic interactions between particles inside a plasma. The main idea of this paper (for what relates our interest) is to establish a ma...

Plasma oscillations propel breakthroughs in fusion energy: https://phys.org/news/2024-03-plasma-oscillations-propel-breakthroughs-fusion.html "This new class of plasma oscillations can exhibit extraordinary features that open the door to innovative advancements in particle acceleration and fusion," ...

One other source of revenue for Helion not mentioned much is licensing. Once the technology is proven later this decade (something which I have little doubt will happen), the Mitsubishis and Westinghouses of the world, or those looking to supplant them, will be chomping at the bit to license the te...

Kudos for vigilance!

Wikipedia answered about the Festivus. I have no grievances to air about my fellow forum members.

But drink for a Happy New Year with good plasma performance in every single fusion contraption all over the globe and no newfound instabilities!

Of in course in non-alcoholic beer. Cardiac arythmia....

So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.

I wonder if this is a matter of ready to confirm & publish as it seems their FuseQ device test amps is high enough? From what I understand, they have the input current, but the pinch current did not increase as much yet. Could be a lot of reasons for that. Looking at what LPPF has been going throug...

Merry Christmas!

Found this recent interview with David Kirtley:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D4vaUULfog

Good point. Well, I have sometimes wondered why the russian technology of on site reactor tank annealing is never discussed in fusion. From the start of the russian nuclear program they had an issue with producing reactor vessels in the size needed for commercial power plant. The first work around ...