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Hello again guys. Grok and I went to work testiing it out in Colab. What we figured out was that we hadn't created a virtual polywell, what we had was a 2 stage compression inertial confinement scheme. We tested it out with D-T, got the core compressed to liquid hydrogen density, but couldn't get i...

Conjecture. OpenAI is not even a customer of Helion yet. They are obviously smarter than that. LOL, you were the one who made that statement. People here try to have serious conversations. If you want to be an edgelord, do that on Reddit, please. There are other ways to feed the Hype train without ...

Skipjack wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 22, 2025 1:30 am

baking wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 21, 2025 11:50 pm

I don't know if you've been keeping up with the news, but it's to keep the OpenAI bubble from popping.

Conjecture. OpenAI is not even a customer of Helion yet.

They are obviously smarter than that.

everything they are doing is exactly what you would do if you were already sure the physics works ! Or if you wanted people to think that you were already sure the physics works. in this scenario, who are they trying to convince by building a factory? the public? who cares what they think? it's not...

TallDave wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 20, 2025 2:31 pm

everything they are doing is exactly what you would do if you were already sure the physics works

Or if you wanted people to think that you were already sure the physics works.

You would be surprised how difficult it is to get capacitors and high power switches of certain specifications. There is a very good reason why Helion and Zap (and I believe others) have to manufacture caps and other equipment in-house. For certain electronic components related to fast and high pow...

I can’t understand why Elon Musk talks about Tokamak first wall heat problem as representative of Fusion (latest pod cast, at the end, around 1hr25min), when Helion Energy converts plasma power via magnetic dynamics. If someone is going to speak on a subject as important as Fusion for energy, at le...

New documentary on Avalanche Energy and their pivot over the Summer to a rotating plasma:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7Hfyz-JIDA

Helion's progress is starting to feel like the Dichotomy Paradox. Namely that, to reach a destination, you first need to reach a point halfway between, then halfway between that, then halfway between that, and so on, endlessly, so that you can never quite finish. What's the version where you announ...

False alarm: https://www.airandspaceforces.com/vecti ... works-cca/

They have been using "edge-biasing" NBI since C-2U in 2015.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAE_Technologies

https://tae.com/a-new-high-performance- ... jection-2/

I've not heard him called that before.

Skipjack wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 26, 2025 11:45 pm

also doing test runs

Also known as commissioning and integration.

Andrew Proffitt, a guy with 14 years of experience working at the NRC, says they are doing commissioning and integration of Polaris.

Edit: This talk was given on April 14, 2025.

Neutral Beam Injection is not cheap.