Eh?
According to this "Jon Beam, Chief Operating Officer, praised the Mission Operations team for their exceptional work and agility, advancing ahead of schedule toward completing primary mission objectives by year's end."
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index ... ic=60008.0
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Re: EM Drive
Either they have not turned it on yet, or it is not working...
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 7:54 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Age of Miracles by Packy McCormick on fusion
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Age of Miracles by Packy McCormick on fusion
Featuring David Kirtley, Sehila Gonzalez, Clay Dumas, JC Btaiche, Francesco Sciortino, Clea Kolster, Ryan Umstattd, Derek Sutherland, and Ian Hogarth.
Have not fully watched it yet, but wanted to post it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8suLtCyGGA
Have not fully watched it yet, but wanted to post it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8suLtCyGGA
- Wed Dec 13, 2023 5:46 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helicity Space
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- Views: 5282
Re: Helicity Space
Very happy for them. It is not a lot of money, but hopefully enough to get them started.
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 6:26 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
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Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
https://x.com/Helion_Energy/status/1732 ... 50670?s=202.5’ thick borated concrete shielding walls are going up in Ursa. These walls will shield the rest of the facility from neutrons generated during Polaris operations.
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 5:27 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
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- Views: 112650
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 3:16 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
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Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
yes Kirtley says in the last video they are focusing on making modular components small enough to fit through a train tunnel, and mentions Falcon in that context as well so apparently rail transport is the plan, but he does not mention the vacuum chamber specifically, so that might only cover the o...
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 7:13 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
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Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Helion seems to be playing their cards very close to the vest, it's surprising how little information there is in about them in many common resources They have been a lot more open recently (though still keeping a few things secret). They have a few interviews and stuff with various engineering cha...
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 6:24 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
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Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Having worked in heavy industry, I've seen things much bigger than 3m transported by road. Let's consider too, the current Helion facility won't be the only production facility, if for no other reason than there's a much larger manufacturing base on the other side of the Rockies from them, with far...
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 7:34 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: SpaceX News
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Re: SpaceX News
With Starship using steel for the structure, I wonder how many tiles it can lose before catastrophic failure.
- Thu Nov 23, 2023 2:47 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
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Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
The problem is that most fusion reactor vessels are not made from steel. Neutron environment is very different too.
- Wed Nov 22, 2023 9:46 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
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- Views: 112650
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Transport by road may imply other difficulties than size. Ask SpaceX! They dimensioned their first stages to be transportable by road. That is why Falcon 9 is so long and thin. If Helion plans to produce and deliver 20 machines a day, they need to consider logistics. Also, is that really important ...
- Wed Nov 22, 2023 4:06 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
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Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Bigger problem with larger machines is that they can not be transported by road. You need to stay under 3 meters diameter for effective road transport. Length is less of a problem though.
- Wed Nov 22, 2023 2:03 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
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Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Helion's magnets are just standard aluminum magnets. Not super conducting. I can't unfortunately give more details in their past magnet experiments. The alternative to stronger magnets are bigger machines. From what I understand, there is currently no noticeable limit for how big you can make them a...
- Mon Nov 20, 2023 10:02 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
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Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Again, I know that the graphs in their papers are for 20 Tesla. I believe that 30 Tesla would be hard to achieve. We will see how things go.