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- Sat Nov 25, 2023 4:30 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: SpaceX News
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Re: SpaceX News
It was a bit scary how many tiles came off the Starship. Hopefully they have a path ahead for dealing with that. As I understand it, there is a procedure to test tiles in the weld sections of the Starship for adequate adhesion where pins for securing tiles are not applied. However, that tile adhesi...
- Tue Nov 07, 2023 11:39 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 669
- Views: 107713
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Wire length between capacitors and aluminum rings has to be measured along with controlling pathway to avoid inductance differences even though it is DC (it is timed, pulsed DC).
- Sat Nov 04, 2023 12:57 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 669
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Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Yes, of course. The wire must be intended to connect the coils to the capacitor banks. Here is a picture: https://spectrum.ieee.org/fusion?utm_campaign=climatetechsub The high voltage explains the structural glass insulator construction of the machine we see in photo. It is really a marvel of techno...
- Thu Nov 02, 2023 4:27 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 669
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Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
There are many motor repair shops that specialize in making coils including vacuum epoxy impregnation of the coils. Any big city can be expected to have one or more such shops. Capacitor manufacturing is more specialized, so making their own is understandable.
- Thu Nov 02, 2023 11:54 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 669
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Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
They just got their magnet wire so lots of work. I was surprised that they make their own magnet coils.Received a massive shipment of cable - over a megameter in total! Our team has meticulously hipot tested every 500-meter spool, ensuring they're all set for installation on Polaris.
- Sun Oct 22, 2023 10:27 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: ZAP Energy News
- Replies: 133
- Views: 27080
Re: ZAP Energy News
High current electrode erosion is an old industrial issue with working solutions. There is however more work for Zap because the electrode shape is important. I doubt we will get details on what exactly they are doing until they patent what ends up working. Technological advances always have the sam...
- Sat Oct 21, 2023 8:17 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: ZAP Energy News
- Replies: 133
- Views: 27080
Re: ZAP Energy News
From what I have seen there is serious work in progress, parallel teams doing the prototyping, actual hardware with success being reported on all aspects. This is not a vaporware company scamming fools out of hundreds of millions, with shady researchers.
- Sat Oct 21, 2023 8:09 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 669
- Views: 107713
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
And high voltage tested them already.
We desperately need to take every bit out of the schedule possible. Helion seems to not miss anything after their experience with building so many prototypes. News from Helion and Zap will shake the world energy tree.
We desperately need to take every bit out of the schedule possible. Helion seems to not miss anything after their experience with building so many prototypes. News from Helion and Zap will shake the world energy tree.
- Fri Oct 20, 2023 2:00 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: ZAP Energy News
- Replies: 133
- Views: 27080
Re: ZAP Energy News
The article mentions them in the next section:
III. ELECTRODE DAMAGE MITIGATION STRATEGIES
- Fri Oct 20, 2023 1:47 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: ZAP Energy News
- Replies: 133
- Views: 27080
Re: ZAP Energy News
Fortunately, several classes of solutions are available to reduce the cathode erosion problem to manageable levels.
- Fri Oct 20, 2023 12:32 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: ZAP Energy News
- Replies: 133
- Views: 27080
Re: ZAP Energy News
Zap Energy has a new paper out on electrode wear: https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pop/article/30/10/100601/2915124/Electrode-durability-and-sheared-flow-stabilized-Z The sheared-flow-stabilized (SFS) Z-pinch concept is on a path to commercialization at Zap Energy. Recent experiments on the Fusion Z-pinch E...
- Tue Oct 03, 2023 9:41 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 669
- Views: 107713
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
IMO, the importance of the NUCOR deal is that it enables Helion to make plans & helps ramp up their factory.
- Sun Oct 01, 2023 9:13 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 669
- Views: 107713
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
It is not clear from Helion's press release on the 500 MWe power plant for NUCOR, but I presume it is ten 50 MWe fusion electric power generators?
- Thu Sep 28, 2023 11:32 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 669
- Views: 107713
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
The biggest issue for foundries has been the loss of low cost coal power. Helion's low cost electric power will change that. This will be a revolution especially for aluminum. Titanium is also dependent on low cost electric power.
- Fri Sep 22, 2023 3:04 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: ZAP Energy News
- Replies: 133
- Views: 27080
Re: ZAP Energy News
Talk about accelerated path to commercial fusion!The new FuZE-Q 1 MJ class power bank, for example, was designed, built, assembled, commissioned, and generated first plasma, all within eight months.