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- Fri Jan 05, 2024 5:58 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 677
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Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Dave, the speed of the plasma as I remember is accelerated to 1 million mph, so the pulse length is very short, so curent flow is huge (look at the conductors to the coils). You might recall that the power electronics capability is only recent if that gives you some reference. To calculate the time ...
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 6:34 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Humble hopes for 2024
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2128
Re: Humble hopes for 2024
Good list!
- Thu Dec 28, 2023 8:54 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: ZAP Energy News
- Replies: 146
- Views: 32714
Re: ZAP Energy News
Plenty of time to have instabilities, Q(science)>1 is just the start, plenty more ramp to go to commercial. Still, why take the gloomy Gus doubter position for no reason? And if there is a stability issue, likely there is a workaround. On the other hand, Helion does not have the plasma stability iss...
- Tue Dec 26, 2023 10:22 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: ZAP Energy News
- Replies: 146
- Views: 32714
Re: ZAP Energy News
Call me pedantic, but saying they won’t hit breakeven this year when it’s December 26 isn’t breaking my heart… Based on current capability, no matter running into early trouble delivering the current into an actual device pinch, they are close to proving their ability to reach breakeven. We see tha...
- Mon Dec 25, 2023 11:37 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Happy Holidays everyone!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1971
Re: Happy Holidays everyone!
Merry Christmas!!! (Today's act of supreme rebellion).
- Mon Dec 25, 2023 10:39 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: ZAP Energy News
- Replies: 146
- Views: 32714
Re: ZAP Energy News
SJ's comment:"We have not and we will not hit break-even this year," a Zap Energy spokesperson said.
I wonder if this is a matter of ready to confirm & publish as it seems their FuseQ device test amps is high enough?This might unfortunately be true, though
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 6:19 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 677
- Views: 118088
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
lol if they don't even need SC magnets and can harvest 90% of the fusion energy as electricity via plasma currents then even LWRs are are going to be obsolete overnight, let alone fusion competitors with low-beta SC designs As soon as I found out Helion was able to extract the plasma energy directl...
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 12:40 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: SpaceX News
- Replies: 2324
- Views: 1182038
Re: SpaceX News
Shock wave is gigantic. I wonder if there is reflection from the tower or the vertical tanks (dented again)? Of course tank walls are flexible so any reflected shock wave would be expected to effect the entire ship with any tile weakness being found such as the section weld lines where there are no ...
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 4:30 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: SpaceX News
- Replies: 2324
- Views: 1182038
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: 677
- Views: 118088
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: 677
- Views: 118088
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: 677
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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: 677
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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: 146
- Views: 32714
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: 146
- Views: 32714
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.