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- Tue May 14, 2024 2:11 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 675
- Views: 114237
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
If I had to guess, what Microsoft needs is massive power for AI server farms. The need is ASAP. Fusion is 24/7 power, not dependent on daylight, weather, dust, no need to locate in the desert where there is no water for cooling. Massive market for Helion & speed is everything.
- Tue May 14, 2024 1:59 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 675
- Views: 114237
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
I have heard that being said by people from Helion before. It is interesting because it suggests that Trenta was already powerful enough for at least some theoretical net electricity, if it had had the equipment for it. My guess from D-T fusion, not D-He3. Polaris will confirm whether their energy ...
- Sun May 12, 2024 7:49 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: ZAP Energy News
- Replies: 146
- Views: 30693
Re: ZAP Energy News
Yeah, the odd thing with Zap is that their simulations came out worse than their experimental results. That is why they are spending a lot of time on refining their simulations. Yes, ZAP's 2D simulations are truly remarkable & extremely encouraging for expediting progress. Further ZAP has confidenc...
- Sun May 12, 2024 11:13 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: ZAP Energy News
- Replies: 146
- Views: 30693
Re: ZAP Energy News
Anyhow it seems that they have a clear road to set up a proper testing machine now, we should quickly see if the results will prove or disprove the whole ZAP concept. Personally, based on last few years advancements in all the related fields, I am feeling optimistic that when higher input values wi...
- Fri May 10, 2024 12:19 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: ZAP Energy News
- Replies: 146
- Views: 30693
Re: ZAP Energy News
Wonderful new paper: Whole device modeling of the fuze sheared-flow-stabilized Z pinch https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-4326/ad3fcb (use the pdf link to read this paper) We had seen earlier models of the Z pinch that talked about the m=0 instability, but the m=1 instability (kink) was...
- Fri May 03, 2024 12:02 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Small Tri Alpha news blurp
- Replies: 255
- Views: 262829
Re: Small Tri Alpha news blurp
I don't think they have the funding for the new machine yet. These privately funded machines get their funding from multiple deep pockets from around the world, hard to know what negotiations & musical chairs is taking place today. Last I had heard: https://tae.com/tae-technologies-exceeds-fusion-r...
- Fri May 03, 2024 2:09 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Small Tri Alpha news blurp
- Replies: 255
- Views: 262829
Re: Small Tri Alpha news blurp
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- Tue Apr 30, 2024 3:01 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: General Fusion in the news
- Replies: 591
- Views: 364536
Re: General Fusion in the news
Latest GF update, this one on their computer code for hydrodynamics, to be used on their liquid metal liner design. https://mailchi.mp/generalfusion/peer-reviewed-paper-validates-code-accelerating-power-plant-design?e=c2986861e1 Excerpts: The code, introduced in a new paper in Physics of Fluids, hel...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 1:25 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 675
- Views: 114237
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
However, based on our knowledge, we knew that an elongated FRC would still suffer from rotational instabilities if they weren’t stabilized using external mechanisms or operational controls, like injecting lines of charged particles (neutral beam injection) around the FRC to hold it steady ,... or.....
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:53 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 675
- Views: 114237
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Metal will conduct current when subjected to changing magnetic fields, & in this case the changing electric fields are massive. As to why quartz? Quartz has many properties besides being non magnetic & an insulator, such as strength, ability to handle high temperature. As to more exotic requirements...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:55 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 675
- Views: 114237
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Helion has been working through Polaris construction issues as mentioned in their progress update: https://mailchi.mp/helionenergy/polaris-construction-is-underway?e=060651cce5 It’s been a great start to 2024 for the Helion team. Every team member is ultra-focused on pulling all the pieces together ...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 2:37 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: ZAP Energy News
- Replies: 146
- Views: 30693
Re: ZAP Energy News
"We have not and we will not hit break-even this year," a Zap Energy spokesperson said. SJ's comment: This might unfortunately be true, though I wonder if this is a matter of ready to confirm & publish as it seems their FuseQ device test amps is high enough? Halfway through March 2024, & ZAP news h...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 6:40 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 675
- Views: 114237
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Thermal losses, heat rejection, is perhaps the most major issue for fusion plant siting. Rivers, ocean, lakes (sometimes artificial), cooling towers, these limit how close to ultimate use plants can be. Then there are also environmental issues, the thermal impact on natural bodies of water. Of all t...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 2:47 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 675
- Views: 114237
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Ions & electrons don't thermalize in a pulse operation which is a big point in a pulse operation and improves direct magnetic recovery efficiency. Quartz is transparent to UV, but I do not know how much of the X-rays will pass, quartz is certainly not opaque to X-rays though and the tube is not that...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 3:36 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: General anti-fusion attitude
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1541
Re: General anti-fusion attitude
Time is fast running out for the naysayers, then watch how those that predicted the exact time of commercial Fusion will suddenly appear. No matter, the big factor is how fast fusion gets deployed.