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No more operation of Polaris in ‘Reaver Mode’.

Helion’s newsletter shows Helion is focused on reducing time & cost to build commercial fusion plants. Yes, Helion needs to get more data from Polaris, but the data they need does not appear to significantly change the design parameters for the plant they are building for the Microsoft power plant c...

Nope! They already have the He3 for the D-He3 campaign. Wow! Eliminates doubters. 2025 fingers crossed, tsunami approaching fast. :D Cost of He3 is peanuts compared to the other costs they are incurring. Looks like big efforts to improve Fusion Electric Plant production costs, speed of production, ...

Nope! They already have the He3 for the D-He3 campaign.

Wow! Eliminates doubters. 2025 fingers crossed, tsunami approaching fast.

At this time I would not be surprised if D-D is run & extrapolation is used to claim net electric once He3 is available.

SJ, TY for your thoughts. 5 months left in 2025, laying foundation for the commercial fusion plant for Microsoft, more weekend pizza looks like is in the tarot cards.

I saw the new machine for building HV capacitors mentioned on X that should speed up manufacturing the HV capacitors.

"Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024"
Updated target for net electric?

Neutral Beam Injection is not cheap. It does not look like they are adding large neutral beam injectors for start up based on the article diagram comparing the two machines (Norm vs Norman), plus the NBI start up use is only for 10ms. Looks like a significant improvement. (For continuous operation ...

The paper basically says TAE has simplified & significantly lowered the cost of their machine by changing the way they create the FRC plasma. Looking at the diagram of the two machine configurations (new vs old) it would appear the length of the new NBI machine (machine that uses neutral beam inject...

LOL! Yes, typo, should be ‘GF', General Fusion.

Thanks for the specifics on the plasma. GM did a lot of testing to find the right geometry for the plasma. Creating the right plasma dynamic shape in their injector that enables the plasma to retain geometry during adiabatic compression is a feat. Amazing work.

They haven’t started compressing the plasmas yet, just injecting them into the LM-26 chamber. FYI, LM-26 has a lithium shell which will collapse by using massive current flow to the external coils. The spheromack topology FRC plasma is supposed to adiabatically collapse (GM has proven in tests), thu...

Sorry, not clear, regulations & siting permits are always a sword hanging over Fusion builds & having connections to the top is important. Also not sure if Helion is getting any Fed money, if so connection to A.I. (Sacks’ focus) also is important.

Short video interview with David Kirtley. Not much new there for us who follow Helion, but still worth noting. SJ, thank you for that link. You sell the interview short for 2 reasons: First, who is interviewing. David Sacks (another tech savvy billionaire) is a direct reporting member of Trump’s te...

Helion’s ability to sub cycle load follow means load leveling batteries are not needed. OTH, ‘Solar’ & ‘wind’ need massive batteries. Moreover, the ability to ramp load is not an issue like it is for fossil & fission because thermal cycling is not a big issue for Helion (turbines are huge chunks of ...