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Utilities have to look far into the future. Fusion investors in projects that target late 2030's will be wondering if the projects could be accelerated. Plant shutdowns will likely be delayed. Fusion is ideal & 50MW sized plants is super news as large multi GW sized plants are difficult to site. Hel...

Spell disruptor strikes again. LOL

Electric power production will need to be sold, it cannot be stored. Helion is not claiming their power plant will be reliable in 2028, there is a lot of real world things to learn. However, this should be a shock to those that are hoping that Fusion will not hit until late 2030's. What is seemingly...

2028!
https://www.helionenergy.com/articles/h ... microsoft/

This goes against my rooted cynicism, too much good news in one day makes me nervous.

The first BS claxon I remember going off was for ‘inflation’ in the late 70s/early 80s.

Magic expansion. I never got over how such an idea got past the smell test.

SJ wrote:

Funny thing, btw. There is no reason why Helion's power plants could not be stood "upright" rather than lying on their side. That opens an interesting design option because then they can use a LiPb waterfall like Zap is doing.

Interesting point.

SJ, You & a few others are keeping this board alive. Thanks to that I took a better look at Helion instead of the shallow glance & came to the realization that their approach was one of the best. Zap is another assuming scaling does not hit a brick wall (no guarantees in plasma). Again, thanks to al...

Garbage in, garbage out, training is the problem. (same with humans)

Just for comparison, 4 years is a normal major overhaul period for fossil. Overhaul minimum is 8 weeks. Helion machines are small machines so they would be easier to cycle off even during peak seasons. I wonder if the machines would be just put in containers & sent back for refurbishment for major o...

Not surprised. Thanks Giorgio.

Also, Copernicus is supposed to demonstrate net power in a couple of years (mid decade).

I get the feeling that a lot of proposals are flying out of the woodwork looking for investment money, that it is more about the looking than the proposals.

Very nice and kind rebuttal. Thank you SJ!

Just ignore them.

Sound advice.