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From the David Kirtley tweet above:

Announcing to the world that they are in need of financial support unfortunately seems like desperation. The sort of thing one does after having approached many sources of VC unsuccessfully.

Unfortunately, things don't appear to be looking good for First Light: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/british-nuclear-fusion-pioneer-wipes-142715306.html .. the nuclear group abandoned plans for a prototype power plant based on its “projectile fusion” technology because of a lack of funding. Instead...

David Kirtley wrote:Our team is crushing it right now!! Incredible to have so many people working around the clock - especially on the weekends - to get things done. Some of the best work happens on Saturdays at the office!

https://x.com/dekirtley/status/1916357936286470485

Here's a nice slide from the stack:

It feels like the performance problem is killing this forum

https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/graph-orbit-data.php?CATNR=63235 EDIT: We have not been notified of a permanent NORAD ID yet. 63235 is OBJECT_AB which refers to a piece of space debris from the Argentinian satellite SAC-C, an Earth observation satellite launched on November 21, 2000. The tempor...

No SATCAT number yet, but SatNOGS is showing green pings.

There's another IVO Quantum Drive in orbit now aboard Rogue Space System's new satellite OTP-2. This was launched on SpaceX Transporter 13 a few days ago. OTP-2 doesn't seem to appear on celestrak.org but there have been tweets that the satellite is alive and kicking. There's also an experimental io...

another helion video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxuPkDOuiM4 Yes, Sabine Hossenfelder. Disappointingly, she starts with the same tired argument, namely that Helion made some predictions early on that didn't pan out, therefore anything they say is suspect. This when Helion stated that it would o...

Here is a link to Zap's blog entry about it:

https://www.zapenergy.com/blog/the-righ ... f-neutrons

Maybe this is a better venue because there can be so much noise on Reddit. My experience on Reddit has been that the name of the subreddit generates only opposing discussion. r/fusion? Only people that say it will never happen, or a bunch of ITER die-hards. https://old.reddit.com/u/baking has made ...

A couple of other links: "Lyten acquires Cuberg’s battery factory" https://www.manufacturingdive.com/news/lyten-acquires-cuberg-lithium-metal-battery-assets-california/733782/ The battery maker plans to invest up to $20 million in the plant to convert the facility to produce lithium-sulfur batteries...

"Could Lithium-Sulfur Batteries Be the Game-Changer for Clean Energy?" https://startupvalley.news/lyten/ This is a battery that can reduce the weight of batteries by 50%, eliminate the need for mined minerals like nickel, manganese, cobalt, and graphite, and can be made with incredibly low cost, wid...

Given my bad mental health, please forgive me. But this reads awful: they are quietly saying their system doesn’t work. Can anyone help understand and/or cheer me up? RERT Looking at the paper, I don't interpret it that negatively. They're doing simulations and are learning from them. The results o...