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I've been able to find a number of patents under the name John Slough and MSNW, describing the machine Helion is developing, the first from 2010, three years before Helion Energy was incorporated. I also found multiple peer reviewed papers authored by John (and colleagues or students). One of them, ...

CTFusion is shutting down.

Apparently they where unable to secure enough funding to keep on with research.

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I've been reviewing what I could find about Helion's tech for the last couple weeks, patents, papers, presentations, videos, etc. John Slough patents regarding Helion's prototype reactor design have changed remarkably little for the last 10+ years, at least in general architecture, overall size, met...

Nick Hawker, First Light Fusion founder and CEO, has a blog ( https://nickhawker.com/ ). Last month he started publishing a series about fusion fuels. He writes: "The topic of fuels for fusion is much talked about in the fusion start-up community. What fuel are you using is a common question, partic...

My gut feeling is that, at last, the time has come for fusion, fusion science is almost touching the steep part of the S curve. If I'm right, NIF achieving Q-science>1 has only been the first step in a race that is going to speed up considerably. In the next few years other initiatives are going to ...

I'm afraid that the fact that only one third of the reactions produce a neutron (or even less, depending on fuel and reaction chamber conditions) is not going to be the deciding factor when it comes to convince the public about safety. The D-3He reaction is aneutronic, the D-D is not, as we all know...

One more thing. Any idea how high could Helion go in ion temperature. The last news from TAE and their experiment with p-11B look interesting, they suggest that, maybe, that fuel is not totally hopeless, it might even be possible to reach ignition. Problem is, at least 200 MeV. That's twenty times w...

Hi there. Have not commented for some time, got a bit bored waiting for breakthroughs in fusion. All the latest news regarding the various startups have renewed my hopes. Also, the Real Engineering video about Helion from three months ago, and the subsequent controversy started by Improbable Matter,...

Hi everyone. Long time, no write. Has anyone access to that Nature article ? A rough idea of the main points would be appreciated. One think I'd like to know is whether it changes in any way the conclusions from the 2019 paper mentioned before, specially the calculations that show it should be possi...

People are not stupid, just uninformed. It takes hard work to think independently and do the research it requires. No-one can invent the modern physics (for example) alone. You are always standing on the shoulders of others. Because you have to rely on your intuition and the others you can quite ea...

Before the Internet there was no easy way that the average Joe could made his voice heard, but now there is, and what we read online seems damning to the common Internet citizen intelligence level. Who has not thought, once and again, how unintelligent most people comments sound. Although, of course...

AGW is no conspiracy. It is a regular fallacy fueled by positive feedback between government hungry for expansion and people who are willing to provide an excuse for it and gain prestige and funding in the course. What government are you referring to? All of them? Do you think that now that the US ...

Maui wrote:Why is a worldwide conspiracy of a huge number of scientist so easy to believe, but it is so hard to believe the concentrated wealth of a small number of oil companies can be used to generate propaganda from a relatively small number of "experts".

And that, in my opinion, is the key question.

Watch out for the intellectual trap where you believe something so strongly that all people who disagree must be crazy ... Can't you see that this phrase also applies to most of the "skeptics", even to yourself? Just change 'crazy' for 'dumb' (or, switch 'all people who disagree' for 'all scientist...

Yes, it is unfortunate that some science has been politicized these last decades, although I don't think we can blame that on the scientists. My take on Occam's Razor is a bit different that pbelter's. In my opinion Einstein explained its essence quite well in this famous quote of his: “Everything s...