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baking wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 27, 2025 6:12 am

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.

Polywell will always have a special place in my personal research journey. Agreed. I, and I'm sure others as well, had visions of Polywells powering ships with Mach-effect thrusters traversing the solar system. We may not get the later, but certainly the former is still alive and kicking, and for t...

Absolutely insane engineering there! I did not believe they would be able to do it at the very first attempt but they did! Science Fiction is boring in comparison! Watching the video shot from the top of the tower with the arms ever so gently squeezing the booster, the controls team needs a raise a...

B field strength also seems low compared to other projects. Is this due to the size?

I hope that it solved your doubts. It did clear up some things, so thank you. What wasn't mentioned in the paper, or maybe it was and I glossed over it, was whether or not the goal is a pulsed-mode or continuous operation. 300 kV is a lot of voltage to try and maintain over long spans time. We're t...

Just finished reading the paper. Maybe this is a silly question, but how do you keep the ions from crashing into the cathode at the required KEs needed for fusion? Is that the breakthrough here, that the feedthroughs are such that the cathode voltage can be dialed high enough to prevent this?

Maybe, I was more optimistic about that before all the articles featuring uninformed tokamak PhDs disparaging the technology. If I may put my tinfoil hat on for a moment, the media-research-government complex will take a huge black eye when Helion or some other "fringe" fusion technology beats the ...

Munchausen wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 16, 2024 4:25 pm

The Polywell has been declared officially dead following a doctorship in Australia.

Good to know. RIP dear friend.

Go Helion Go!

Giorgio wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 16, 2024 2:06 pm

Technology for High Field HTSC and HV Feedthrought (sic)

Would this include this forum's namesake? I don't know of a single person here who wouldn't want to see a Polywell roar back to life.

DAC is the golden child at Oxy. Don't ask how I know this.

It is just me, or does that thruster have a nice, old-school starship sci-fi vibe to it? I guess life does imitate art sometimes.

This seems to confirm the discussion that Helion is not prototyping a fusion generator (though they are, obviously) so much as prototyping a fusion generator manufacturing system. It makes me wonder what they're not saying about the performance of Trenta.

Article today in the Telegram:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/20 ... on-closer/

Light on technical details, but it's not a fringe publication, for what that's worth.

Just to note for distant future reference, if they do cool the mantle and stop plate tectonics, carbon-based life is going to die out… Much more dangerous than Global Warming, though might take a while. Just sayin’… Nah, the best way to kill this would be to call it "Advanced Geo-nuclear Energy Ext...

That core melt was going nowhere but a puddle in the bottom of the vessel. The sad irony of all this is unless you're a trained engineer or physicist, all you're going to understand is "reactor got too hot and broke, it's too dangerous, BLARGH!" Designing safe failure modes is not something many co...