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With He3 selling for $20,000/g and tritium for $30,000/g, I wonder if they can make a profit running on D-D without generating net electricity. At least until the markets for those gasses crash. The problem with saying that tritium is $30,000/g is that it may be because the production cost is very ...

Nice!

Yeah, that is something that I have been saying for a while. They will likely burn the He3 and sell the Tritium until the market is saturated. They can go pretty low with the price too (below 1000 USD/gram) before it becomes more profitable to let it decay and burn the resulting He3.

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pbelter wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 10, 2025 4:32 pm

Jim Woodward has died

https://x.com/timventura/status/1954581046806360369

This is sad. One might not agree with him on his theories, but I still feel sorry for the loss.

mvanwink5 wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 10, 2025 10:42 am

Nope! They already have the He3 for the D-He3 campaign.

Wow! Eliminates doubters. 2025 fingers crossed, tsunami approaching fast.

Cost of He3 is peanuts compared to the other costs they are incurring.

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pbelter wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 09, 2025 1:31 am

Update from Richard Mansell
https://x.com/RaMansell/status/1953960462116442398?s=19

Just saw that too. It may succeed (I am very skeptical) or it may fail. Either way, excitement is guaranteed

mvanwink5 wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 04, 2025 10:08 am

At this time I would not be surprised if D-D is run & extrapolation is used to claim net electric once He3 is available.

Nope! They already have the He3 for the D-He3 campaign.

Hmm. So I guess the strategy is to use D-D to tune the device for the right plasma conditions (e.g. triple product), then D-He3 and further tuning to maximize the fusion, then yet more tuning to maximize the direct energy out. Hopefully that will demonstrate net electricity production. It seems to ...

What else can they do? There is no He3 to buy so they have to make it themselves from the D-D reaction. This is not quite correct. There is He3 to buy. It costs 20,000 USD/gram. Not economic for power plants, but does not matter for tests. May it be as it will with that. They will still have to run...

Do you expect they'll work on DT for now, and work up to using He3 later? Or will they have to be using He3 to get net electricity without using a thermal cycle? No, they will start with D-D, then do D-He3 and then will do a few shots D-T with last. That is because D-T operations will likely do dam...

Starting a new thread for this. We've started construction on the site of the world's first fusion power plant, Orion. Located in Malaga, WA, Orion will begin delivering electricity from fusion to Microsoft by 2028. This is a big deal! They are moving concrete already! The permits were the hardest p...

"Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024" Updated target for net electric? I know they want to demonstrate it before the end of the year at the latest, but they are trying to get there sooner. Their last post says that they are ready for operation at full power. That means t...