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You shut the faucet before you wipe the floor. It is always better not to emit something than emitting it to catch it back and store it later. Carbon capture is no option until the last fossil fired power plant is closed. Will that have happened in 2050? Even if Helion and all the others succeed? It...

Fallback options in case of total fusion failure is really a subject for a different thread.

Sometime around new years eve 2031...

80% efficiency they say... I google 10-15 % for compressors. 100 kW electric power gives 10-15 kW compressed air power. Add the inefficiencies in converting it back to electricity. Not to say that the electricity comes from hugely wasteful wind and solar to begin with. Renewables should be considere...

I saw a recent article on a hypothetic closed fuel cycle for light water reactors. If I remember it right an advanced scheme built upon a breeding ladder från U238 to 240 to 241 with subsequent fuel processing. It could theoretically deliver a breeding ratio better than unity. Which should relieve a...

And even if there is no fusion yet for 50 years standard thermal fission will provide ample power for the time being. GE BWRX-300 is projected to cost 2,35 miljon dollars per MW installed when in serialized production. If that is realized it will always be cheaper to just build more power production...

No spec sheet or any hard data but at least an update. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/lyten-receives-award-demonstrate-battery-140200623.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLnNlLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAI01CMAm2CBcCC2qB5bWuMXIkgvlqUVW31XmglD_t_AAb5mwYKNTrlVrhZRbePPCTjWK2ibY5mUveM...

Here are news from Australia. 18 pages.

https://www.finexia.com.au/wp-content/u ... 2021-2.pdf

Will there be an article any time soon?

Cuberg made this little video of a drone equipped with their battery.

https://cuberg.net/news/cuberg-battery- ... light-time

Nice but really not much of a proof.

The automotive has certainly learnt a few things from debacles like Envia and Sakti3. Quantumscape has always been a serious business willing to accept external testing and review. But somehow I feel a solid electrolyte is like crossing the creek for water. The gain in gravimetric specific energy is...

"Under Department of Defense (DoD) test protocols, a LytCell™ prototype design has demonstrated greater than 1,400 cycles." Then there should be a test report. Why not just publish it? Or give at least a few key technical facts: Weight of the cell, achieved energy output on the first and the last cy...

If they really have a battery breakthrough: Why don´t they terminate further doubt by sending a few cells to an independent third party test company and publish their report? Voltamperometry, weighing the cells and estimating cycle life is not rocket science if done on a basic level just to provide ...

Fresh article:

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1 ... 326/ac2521

Here is an article depicting something similar to what Helion is doing: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-4326/ac189c#nfac189cs6 Observation of self-organized FRC formation in a collisional-merging experiment "Self-organized field-reversed configuration (FRC)-like formation was observe...

Video from groundbreaking event to be seen here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=682aJqa7Ioc