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by Munchausen
Sun Mar 24, 2024 6:00 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Company (Quaise Energy) plans to use fusion technology to drill for geothermal
Replies: 18
Views: 3781

Re: Company (Quaise Energy) plans to use fusion technology to drill for geothermal

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...
by Munchausen
Fri Mar 22, 2024 6:07 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Avalanche Energy
Replies: 26
Views: 8948

Re: Avalanche Energy

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...
by Munchausen
Sat Mar 09, 2024 7:08 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Jäderberg future power - Swedish fusion startup
Replies: 28
Views: 5583

Re: Jäderberg future power - Swedish fusion startup

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...
by Munchausen
Fri Mar 08, 2024 4:10 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Novel plasma phenomenon announced on phys.org
Replies: 3
Views: 260

Re: Novel plasma phenomenon announced on phys.org

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...
by Munchausen
Tue Mar 05, 2024 5:29 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Novel plasma phenomenon announced on phys.org
Replies: 3
Views: 260

Novel plasma phenomenon announced on phys.org

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," ...
by Munchausen
Wed Feb 21, 2024 4:25 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Replies: 660
Views: 104344

Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024

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...
by Munchausen
Sun Dec 31, 2023 9:30 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Happy Holidays everyone!
Replies: 9
Views: 713

Re: Happy Holidays everyone!

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....
by Munchausen
Wed Dec 27, 2023 9:36 pm
Forum: News
Topic: MIFTI - Magneto Inertial Fusion Technology Inc
Replies: 3
Views: 527

Re: MIFTI - Magneto Inertial Fusion Technology Inc

So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
by Munchausen
Wed Dec 27, 2023 9:36 am
Forum: News
Topic: ZAP Energy News
Replies: 133
Views: 26168

Re: ZAP Energy News

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...
by Munchausen
Sun Dec 24, 2023 8:36 am
Forum: General
Topic: Happy Holidays everyone!
Replies: 9
Views: 713

Re: Happy Holidays everyone!

Merry Christmas!
by Munchausen
Thu Nov 23, 2023 5:49 am
Forum: News
Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Replies: 660
Views: 104344

Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024

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 ...
by Munchausen
Tue Nov 21, 2023 4:19 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Replies: 660
Views: 104344

Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024

Helion themselves say a 10 T FRC outperforms a 44 Tesla Tokamak https://www.helionenergy.com/faq/ "Fusion reaction rates (the amount of energy produced) scale as magnetic field to the 4th power, an extremely strong scaling. However, that is the magnetic field inside the plasma, not outside. A 10 Tes...
by Munchausen
Sat Sep 30, 2023 6:17 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Replies: 660
Views: 104344

Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024

One cool thing about Helion's machines is that they can load follow really, really well. That means that they do not have to rely on a large grid for stabilization. I think that should help with smaller consumers that need/want their own plants. It is a shame though, that it is so hard to get a gri...