Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024

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Munchausen
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Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024

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New video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oswGdRTyppg

It certainly looks like a serious operation.

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Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024

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mvanwink5 wrote:
Fri Dec 12, 2025 3:56 pm
Running out of 2025 days. I wonder what the issue is?
"Q: It's just that gradual process of just doing more and more tests? A: And every day you add a system, you upgrade, you go to higher power, honestly, some days you break things."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oswGdRTyppg&t=586s

You know, science.

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Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024

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I wonder if the issue is tuning the electronics, massive power in, timed, then massive power back out to the capacitors, **add in plasma dynamics**, fusion reaction timing. (we had 10,000 HP or 7.5 MW, variable speed inductive motors driven by power electronics, key a radio nearby & watch them shutdown, & these power circuits were a commercial product, Helion builds their own power supplies for GW’s & microsecond pulses).

Crazy.
Counting the days to commercial fusion. It is not that long now.

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Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024

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mvanwink5 wrote:
Fri Dec 12, 2025 8:43 pm
I wonder if the issue is tuning the electronics, massive power in, timed, then massive power back out to the capacitors, **add in plasma dynamics**, fusion reaction timing. (we had 10,000 HP or 7.5 MW, variable speed inductive motors driven by power electronics, key a radio nearby & watch them shutdown, & these power circuits were a commercial product, Helion builds their own power supplies for GW’s & microsecond pulses).

Crazy.
Helion recently released a couple of videos describing full-size "bench-top" setups in which they connect a large capacitor bank to a coil to work out potential bugs in the system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1R51Z9-TM4&t=213s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyOL2S3N6Kw&t=456s

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