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by Munchausen
Tue Oct 07, 2025 4:57 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Realta Fusion - Mirrors with HTS end plugging - another startup
Replies: 19
Views: 50064

Re: Realta Fusion - Mirrors with HTS end plugging - another startup

I found this also: https://www.dailycardinal.com/article/2025/10/how-three-madison-researchers-broke-ground-in-the-fusion-world The simulation showed that by introducing tactics to control the instability, WHAM could confine plasma for around 100 microseconds. Though this number is still lower than ...
by Munchausen
Tue Oct 07, 2025 4:48 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Realta Fusion - Mirrors with HTS end plugging - another startup
Replies: 19
Views: 50064

Re: Realta Fusion - Mirrors with HTS end plugging - another startup

Another disappointment! Seemingly bad news: https://www.ornl.gov/news/ornl-leads-three-infuse-projects-solving-fusion-challenges WHAM generated its first plasma in July 2024, but exhibited relatively short confinement times. To address this issue and better predict device performance, Realta is deve...
by Munchausen
Sun Aug 10, 2025 7:42 am
Forum: News
Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Replies: 848
Views: 639023

Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024

What else can they do? There is no He3 to buy so they have to make it themselves from the D-D reaction. This is not quite correct. There is He3 to buy. It costs 20,000 USD/gram. Not economic for power plants, but does not matter for tests. May it be as it will with that. They will still have to run...
by Munchausen
Sat Aug 09, 2025 7:36 am
Forum: News
Topic: Lyten - Lithium Sulfur Battery
Replies: 30
Views: 79714

Re: Lyten - Lithium Sulfur Battery

Oh dear... Northvolt was a massive failure. Some even say it was a scam. Whatever it was, the money is gone and the Lyten Company got themselves a huge amount of hardware and real estate. At a bargain price. The press here in Sweden has called the spectacle "the ant that bought a dead elephant". So...
by Munchausen
Thu Aug 07, 2025 4:26 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Lyten - Lithium Sulfur Battery
Replies: 30
Views: 79714

Re: Lyten - Lithium Sulfur Battery

The Lyten company has acquired the former Northvolt establishment in Skellefteå, Sweden: https://www.di.se/nyheter/northvolt-saljs-till-amerikanska-lyten/ The American battery manufacturer Lyten is buying Northvolt. The assets are valued at 50 billion kronor – but Lyten has not paid that much. “The ...
by Munchausen
Sun Aug 03, 2025 5:31 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Replies: 848
Views: 639023

Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024

Hmm. So I guess the strategy is to use D-D to tune the device for the right plasma conditions (e.g. triple product), then D-He3 and further tuning to maximize the fusion, then yet more tuning to maximize the direct energy out. Hopefully that will demonstrate net electricity production. It seems to ...
by Munchausen
Sun Jul 20, 2025 5:32 pm
Forum: News
Topic: MIRRORCLE-20SX System - desktop D-T fusion
Replies: 2
Views: 6756

Re: MIRRORCLE-20SX System - desktop D-T fusion

Someone has obviously found it worthwhile to spend the money needed for a patent application for this contraption:

https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/WO2025142890
by Munchausen
Tue Jul 08, 2025 6:03 pm
Forum: News
Topic: MIRRORCLE-20SX System - desktop D-T fusion
Replies: 2
Views: 6756

MIRRORCLE-20SX System - desktop D-T fusion

Stumbled upon this: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/393405310_High-Power_Deuterium-Tritium_Fusion_Enabled_by_a_Tabletop_Electron_Storage_Ring novel compact nuclear fusion concept based on a 20 MeV tabletop electron storage ring (ESR), which electrostatically confines and accelerates deuteri...
by Munchausen
Tue Jul 01, 2025 7:09 am
Forum: News
Topic: Proxima Fusion
Replies: 2
Views: 43588

Re: Proxima Fusion

130 million euros in funding secured:

https://www.proximafusion.com/press-new ... -the-2030s
by Munchausen
Mon May 12, 2025 4:29 pm
Forum: News
Topic: General Fusion in the news
Replies: 613
Views: 595172

Re: General Fusion in the news

Bad news indeed, but you have to remember, the goals of the climate change cult are ultimately anti-human. The point is fewer humans, so cheap, abundant, clean energy isn't part of that plan. The easiest way to achieve depopulation is prosperity through fusion energy. Fertility rates drops drastica...
by Munchausen
Tue Apr 15, 2025 5:15 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Small Tri Alpha news blurp
Replies: 271
Views: 468968

Re: Small Tri Alpha news blurp

Interesting formation technique. That will certainly help making their machines smaller and cheaper to build. What is notable to me mostly how low the temperatures they are operating at still are today. This makes it possible for them to omit the two big drums at each end of the machine. Correctly ...
by Munchausen
Tue Apr 15, 2025 1:52 am
Forum: News
Topic: Small Tri Alpha news blurp
Replies: 271
Views: 468968

Re: Small Tri Alpha news blurp

Interesting formation technique. That will certainly help making their machines smaller and cheaper to build. What is notable to me mostly how low the temperatures they are operating at still are today. This makes it possible for them to omit the two big drums at each end of the machine. Correctly ...
by Munchausen
Sat Apr 12, 2025 10:04 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Small Tri Alpha news blurp
Replies: 271
Views: 468968

Re: Small Tri Alpha news blurp

Fresh nature article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58849-5 We report evidence of successful generation of field-reversed configuration plasmas by neutral beam injection. These results establish a field-reversed configuration formation method which may offer technological and economic a...