Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024

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Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024

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Skipjack wrote:
Tue Feb 18, 2025 2:29 am
Hossenfelder did not even bother to read their recent paper. Helion did publish results for Trenta.
I see what you did there. We don't know if she read their recent paper, but that is moot because it had no experimental results. What you meant to say is that Sabine did not attend the American physics conference where some Trenta results were mentioned. But you didn't either. If you had, you would have known that Michael Hua presented over Zoom with some fuzzy plots of neutron diagnostics where all the data were normalized, so no real numbers.

While checking to see if there was some other more recent paper, I noticed that Helion has a bunch of new patents in the last year that might be interesting.

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baking wrote:
Tue Feb 18, 2025 2:45 pm
Skipjack wrote:
Tue Feb 18, 2025 2:29 am
Hossenfelder did not even bother to read their recent paper. Helion did publish results for Trenta.
I see what you did there. We don't know if she read their recent paper, but that is moot because it had no experimental results. What you meant to say is that Sabine did not attend the American physics conference where some Trenta results were mentioned. But you didn't either. If you had, you would have known that Michael Hua presented over Zoom with some fuzzy plots of neutron diagnostics where all the data were normalized, so no real numbers. While checking to see if there was some other more recent paper, I noticed that Helion has a bunch of new patents in the last year that might be interesting.
Verified documentation that this is a working process for energy production would have been top news all over the world for weeks. That doesn´t mean they don´t have a working process.

Just that we can´t know.

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baking wrote:
Tue Feb 18, 2025 2:45 pm
We don't know if she read their recent paper, but that is moot because it had no experimental results.
I can tell that she did not read the paper because of the things she said.
baking wrote:
Tue Feb 18, 2025 2:45 pm
What you meant to say is that Sabine did not attend the American physics conference where some Trenta results were mentioned.


Trenta 2020 results were presented at SOFE in 2021. Helion has a video of the presentation in their Youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHirlGXlJ38&t=947s

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In other news. There is a new video regarding Helion's simulation work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FwOeN-zcPY

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Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024

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Skipjack wrote:
Tue Feb 18, 2025 4:45 pm
I can tell that she did not read the paper because of the things she said.
What things did she say?

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baking wrote:
Tue Feb 18, 2025 2:45 pm

While checking to see if there was some other more recent paper, I noticed that Helion has a bunch of new patents in the last year that might be interesting.
Thanks baking! There is quite a few Helion patent papers from last year to have a look on.

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Helion Energy has announced the following very interesting piece of news:
We now have more than 2 grams (20,000 Ci) of tritium onsite in Ursa, enabling D-T operations in Polaris.

Polaris will operate with three fuel mixtures – D-D, D-T, and D-He-3 – each with distinct testing benefits. As Polaris progresses through testing, tritium will play a vital role in understanding the machine’s performance and reliability.

To receive this amount of tritium is no small feat. Our Radiation Safety and Fuel Cycle teams worked extensively to ensure safe and efficient handling on the way to secure storage in Polaris’ fuel processing lab.

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Yeah, I tried posting this (Tritium) earlier, but the forum errors prevented me from doing so. Looks like they are fixed now, though.

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Looks like Helion has set their eyes on a site for the Microsoft power plant.

https://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/loc ... 303bc.html

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Looks like Helion's isotope separation facility is ready:

https://x.com/dekirtley/status/1902002622888018007

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Helion has given an IAEA talk here: https://nucleus.iaea.org/sites/fusionpo ... inars.aspx. The presentation gives the current status of the Polaris activities and shows nice pictures of their previous experiments.

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Here's a nice slide from the stack:
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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.

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Yeah, they are still working on it, but are also doing test- runs already at the same time, though not at full capacity.

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