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https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/618685095/nano-diamond-battery-ndb-launches-crowdfunding-offering-to-revolutionize-the-energy-industry NDB Inc., a cutting-edge power company, is proud to announce the launch of a crowdfunding offering to bring its innovative Nano Diamond Battery technology to consume...

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/super ... ate-claims

"16 Teams Race to Validate Superconductor Breakthrough, Find Mixed Results"

There's a nice table summarizing them.

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/breakthrough-fusion-solutions-from-nt-tao-offer-clean-energy/ By achieving an impressive efficiency of over 32% in prototype A and further improving performance in prototype B with a stronger power supply, NT-Tao showcases its ability to optimize energy transfer and e...

The shock of net electric from fusion in a 50 MWe plant prototype machine will be earth shattering. Imagine the solar, wind, battery pushers once the announcement blows up the narrative, not to mention the fission people. This worries me. Some of them are so invested that they might do everything t...

I might just be catching up on events, but the FIA has set up a Space Committee:

https://www.fusionindustryassociation.o ... committee/

Some competition for Helicity: Pulsar Fusion.

https://news.satnews.com/2023/07/06/nuc ... akthrough/

They hope to demonstrate an exhaust speed of ~500,000 mph in a static test fire in 2025.

Six minute talk by Eric Lerner, titled "Who's Ahead in the Fusion Energy Race"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8QXC5M ... =LPPFusion

David Kirtley replied to the Helion Energy tweet, adding:

These are going to be some big FRCs! As particle confinement time scales as r^2.9, this going to let us go to even higher temperatures and longer burn times.

IVO Limited has announced that they rebooked for October on SpaceX transporter 9. No indication whether this was a last minute decision or not. EDIT: Think about this a little, it's possible that some new test failed, or they realized they needed to revisit their results in the light of some new tho...

Assembling the bridge cranes. The people and vehicles there give a sense of scale:

For those interested: Join us in June as we make history for the betterment of human kind. This is for those of us crazy enough to risk it all in the name of scientific progression. https://twitter.com/ivo_ltd/status/1648903692160999424 There's a four-minute Youtube video embedded: https://www.youtu...

The awardees are: Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Focused Energy Inc, Princeton Stellarators Inc, Realta Fusion Inc, Tokamak Energy Inc, Type One Energy Group, Xcimer Energy Inc, and Zap Energy Inc

ZAP is in there, good to see. I wonder what the selection process was.

A look into the site where SPARC will soon sit, as the construction crew makes progress every day inside our Tokamak Hall.

A little depressing how negative the general reaction to the Helion/Microsoft power delivery agreement has been. A lot of "Helion is a scam", "Helion can't possibly deliver", "Helion hasn't published enough to be credible", etc.

https://www.energymonitor.ai/tech/geoth ... nergy-ceo/

They're still stating the same goals, namely "2024 is when we first demonstrate this in the field, 2026 is when we first extract steam from the ground".