Talk-Polywell.org

https://www.zapenergy.com//news/doe-century-milestone

basically ZAPs DEMO machine is online. The commercial race is real.

Polywell will always have a special place in my personal research journey. Nice to see an update to emc2 website. I wish I had the accreditation (and big money problems) to properly support them. They now have to compete with many other dark horse concepts and practical timelines (ZAP energy, Helion...

https://www.energy.senate.gov/hearings/2024/9/full-committee-hearing-to question: 00:51:00 "are you still on track to show it can produce electricity by the end of this year?" answer: 00:51:51 my summary: on track for testing before end of year, demonstrate electricity likely next year. -----------...

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pop/article/29/6/062103/2847827 kind of a shame polywell is ommitted from this historical review- how dark horse is too dark? The Lawson criterion is a key concept in the pursuit of fusion energy, relating the fuel density n, pulse duration τ or energy confinement time τE, a...

https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.155101

Anyone have access to the full article? They mention they have a "basis" for scaling laws now, curious to know their scaling laws for Zap.

Surprised I didn't see a thread here on these guys, there is now a 10x cheaper battery (but terrible density) for grids and homes https://wtov9.com/news/local/form-energys-battery-plant-construction-weirton-economy-750-jobs Now, Form Energy, a Massachusetts-based energy company, thinks it has the so...

I have been downloading and playing with smaller state of the art models that run on consumer hardware. Some of them (like Facebook llama) produce results as good as or within a few percentage points (based on many peer reviewed assessments) as ChatGPT but much slower on my machine (2 or so words pe...

https://www.newsweek.com/small-particle-plasma-accelerator-development-1745756 The LHC measures around 17 miles in circumference. TAU's accelerators, in contrast, are expected to measure no longer than a few shipping containers. "CERN accelerates protons and antiprotons, while the machines that we ...

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/lpb/2022/3952779/ "Multiplication Processes in High-Density H-11B Fusion Fuel" Basically a paper to confirm the scaling HB11 Australian team reported some months ago (other threads here), includes multiple models and various machines - didn't see this cross posted ye...

https://twitter.com/energy_zap/status/1 ... 7nwQw&s=19

First fuze-q neutrons

Nuclear fusion industry organization had some very interesting comments for the Presidents Council of Advisors on Science and Technology on the white house YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/t47gXx5fb3o I did not make time stamp notes, however PCAST also accepts comments from the general public for t...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04281-w aligns with what was already published, notable publication for NIF

"Burning plasma achieved in inertial fusion" in Nature

Was researching this one over lunch and the real benefit to this design is no vacuum is needed; the fusion is achievable in atmosphere. If diode-pumped lasers achieve a few more advances outside this research, the design also benefit drastically. 50 joule laser math (per the paper 2019) is pretty mu...

Looking for new news on this based on the last timeline...

Is JT-60sa the same as JET?

https://www.jt60sa.org/b/index_nav_6.ht ... 30121.html

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Wed Nov 25, 2020 2:04 pm

Physical Review Letters: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1 ... 125.177204

Thank you!