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- Mon Jun 20, 2022 7:23 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Avalanche Energy
- Replies: 26
- Views: 10276
Re: Avalanche Energy
The article in GeekWire mentions them aiming for 600 kV, which is indeed quite a lot. The University of Wisconsin-Madison IEC has worked on building fusors reaching 300 kV, https://fti.neep.wisc.edu/fti.neep.wisc.edu/presentations/bonomo_iec2012.pdf . That presentation is already ten years old, so I...
- Mon Jun 20, 2022 7:02 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Small Tri Alpha news blurp
- Replies: 255
- Views: 263420
Re: Small Tri Alpha news blurp
A detailed summary of the TAE Technologies achievements was given by Michl Binderbauer on the 5th of May 2022 with the title Burning plasma aspects and reactor concept based on the FRC approach, https://www.burningplasma.org/resources ... -04-22.pdf.
- Mon May 16, 2022 9:21 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: ARPA-E Fusion Annual Meeting 2022
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1506
Re: ARPA-E Fusion Annual Meeting 2022
Some of the contributions of the ARPA-E meeting have now been published on the website.
- Mon May 16, 2022 9:20 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: ZAP Energy News
- Replies: 146
- Views: 31368
Re: ZAP Energy News
Zap Energy is doing great progress with FuZE and it will be very interesting to see how their soon to begin research with FuZE-Q will work out. The latest status of Zap Energy can be read from this ARPA-E presentation: https://arpa-e.energy.gov/sites/default ... Nelson.pdf.
- Tue Apr 26, 2022 12:52 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: First Light Fusion News
- Replies: 18
- Views: 18419
Re: First Light Fusion News
The Telegraph has combined two videos by FLF into one and added some captions. The 1 min 5 s long video shows how the FLF reactor concept looks like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60dmC-9MqVI First Light Fusion has redesigned their website, so it is has quite a lot more material compared to the pr...
- Tue Apr 26, 2022 12:41 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: ARPA-E Fusion Annual Meeting 2022
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1506
ARPA-E Fusion Annual Meeting 2022
The ARPA-E Fusion Annual Meeting 2022 is taking place during the time April 26-27, 2022 in San Francisco, CA. There are presentations by ZAP Energy, CFS, CTFusion and many others. Usually ARPA-A publiishes most of the slides from their events, so I hope that will be the case this time as well. https...
- Tue Apr 05, 2022 12:25 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: General Fusion in the news
- Replies: 591
- Views: 365161
Re: General Fusion in the news
GF is expanding their cooperation with utilities as was mentioned already in the Helion thread. It seems that they are really moving forward early in this area. https://generalfusion.com/2022/04/gener ... y-leaders/
- Tue Apr 05, 2022 12:20 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: First Light Fusion News
- Replies: 18
- Views: 18419
Re: First Light Fusion News
FLF reports that they have detected their first neutrons from the D-D reaction. Their analysis has been independently confirmed by UKAEA. It is nice to see yet another way to skin a cat. https://firstlightfusion.com/media/fusion https://firstlightfusion.com/science-hub/conclusions-from-ukaeas-review...
- Fri Mar 18, 2022 8:58 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: ZAP Energy News
- Replies: 146
- Views: 31368
Re: ZAP Energy News
Here is another presentation from Zap Energy. The presentation is by Eric Meier with the title Modeling Plasma Physics in the Z-pinch Fusion Concept . The talk was given at the 2022 Energy High Performance Computing Conference on the 1st of March 2022 https://2022energyhpcconference.sched.com/event/...
- Fri Mar 11, 2022 9:08 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: ZAP Energy News
- Replies: 146
- Views: 31368
Re: ZAP Energy News
Ben Levitt who is director of R&D at Zap Energy gave a talk with the title Fusion Energy & the Energy Transition at the GDS Energy Summit in December 2021. It is a nice summary worth watching, but for Talk -Polywell members there is not much new as the presentation is a rather general one. The 24 mi...
- Thu Mar 10, 2022 11:50 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Tokamak Energy news
- Replies: 164
- Views: 202241
Re: Tokamak Energy news
Thanks Skipjack for the video. It is good to see Tokamak Energy progress with their path to fusion. The corresponding press release about this milestone is this one: https://www.tokamakenergy.co.uk/tokamak-energy-moves-closer-to-commercial-fusion/ It will be interesting to see how much new funding t...
- Fri Feb 25, 2022 8:16 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: MIT claim they will build the SPARC
- Replies: 55
- Views: 49630
Re: MIT claim they will build the SPARC
... https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/02/23/1045122/fusion-power-mit-startup-commonwealth/ In the article link above there is this quote that shows that also CFS is planning future sites for their reactors as General Fusion is doing: The company has begun early conversations with potential cust...
- Fri Feb 25, 2022 7:55 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: MIT claim they will build the SPARC
- Replies: 55
- Views: 49630
Re: MIT claim they will build the SPARC
As a matter of fact, it is worth noting that ZAP could "overtake" (in purely triple product, which is not everything mind you!) everyone else, which is mainly because of the relative simplicity of their design. The triple product value reported by Zap Energy at the previous Fusion Power Associates ...
- Wed Feb 23, 2022 6:00 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 676
- Views: 115351
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
It's nice to see the progress possible when funding is not the limiting factor.
That building is quite large so a lot of activities will fit in there. I wonder how much space is required for Polaris with the needed capacitor banks and other equipment?
That building is quite large so a lot of activities will fit in there. I wonder how much space is required for Polaris with the needed capacitor banks and other equipment?
- Wed Feb 16, 2022 10:38 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: First Light Fusion News
- Replies: 18
- Views: 18419
Re: First Light Fusion News
First Light Fusion reports on their progress during 2021 in their latest press release where they also say that they have gotten $45 million in new funding. They are becoming an important player in terms of obtained funding and staffing. How their approach works out in the end remains to be seen? ht...