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As an electrical engineer, the efficiency and elegance of this design is extraordinary: I mean, each pulse even sweeps out the exhaust from the last one sometimes I feel a bit like a Neolithic looking at a ball-point pen Yes, me too, LOL! As mentioned above, I think they might even be able to recov...

in Polaris every electric power pulse is in coaxial cable with tuned ends, every cable is measured precisely. LOL!! No one will copy Helion’s design because the engineering to make this machine work is far beyond patents. Even the mechanical pieces like the vacuum pumps are Helion’s patented design...

Just a little detail: The "B Field recovery". Should it be understod as back EMF or back pressure from an expanding high beta plasmoid? Good question, especially because my abbreviated "B field recovery" is a bit ambiguous. Short TL;DR answer: Yes . More specifically and accurately, the B filed rec...

the Chinese are quite nice generally, it is CCP that no one likes, particularly the Chinese themselves Absolutely true! I've lived in China, and have travelled all over: coastal, inland, North, South. I even speak Mandarin (not very well, but enough to get around - it's an elegant language, and tho...

If the Helion company prove it's worth there will be a surge in interest and resources will be reallocated to copy cat projects. It will not all look nice. More like closed doors military crash programs than academia. Whether intellectual property rights will be respected can also be questioned. Ve...

Hopefully you are right and we will see pulsed FRC energy production very soon. However, what is not correct is that the world is not watching. You have presented a paper from three german physicists and one english professor in mathematics who obviously found Helion's approach worthy of scrutiny a...

I would still like to see that triple product plot... As I understand it, Helion has found a way to somewhat lessen the demands for a robust positive energy exchange. But that might offset the necessary constraint for the triple product with an order of magnitude or perhabs two. Not make it irrelev...

Discalimer: I am an electrical engineer with plasma physics experience, but not fusion experience. I trust the formulae I find in the field without fully understanding all of them. I have no connection to, or inside knowledge of, Helion's implementations. My analysis includes "informed' speculation...

This is all very exciting and nice reading as an evening pastime but perhabs you shouldn't get your cylinder head gasket blown over this recent announcement. I get the skepticism. Anyone who knows me knows I'm a skeptic, with a pretty reliable and accurate BS detector. But I respectfully disagree t...

Personally, I think that fusion will be much bigger than AI. If you think about the fundamental physics of everything humanity does, then energy is ultimate limiting factor. I absolutely agree. Cheap, reliable, accessible energy is a complete game changer. A global tsunami of change. And I am convi...

[Last Friday's D-T success video posted by Helion] changed all that (more on that in a following comment). The reason this is such HUGE news is that it confirms what Helion was stating they would do back in 2023, based on their scaling predictions and data from Trenta. They made a lot of this publi...

Though, it might already be too late because the cat is already out of the bag and China knows where this is going. The US (forget about Europe, they are still sleeping and will sleep until it is too late) is moving too slowly. This is the next big thing and it is coming... fast! https://news.cgtn....

New blog post by Helion: Measuring electricity production from fusion: Electrical diagnostics https://www.helionenergy.com/articles/measuring-electricity-production-from-fusion-electrical-diagnostics/ Thanks for alerting us to that new post, SJ. Not very informative, since they don't provide any ac...

Just to wrap my head around the cost of D-He3 reactions in initial testing, i tried some reverse-engineered back of the envelope calculations for Orion (or maybe more likely Polaris), assuming 100MJ of harvestable ⁴He (alpha particle) energy, but 50% harvest efficiency factor due to all loses (e.g.,...

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 This is scientific writing and the statement that "a better understanding ... is needed" is merely the opening sentence in the ...