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by AcesHigh
Wed Dec 21, 2022 7:51 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Replies: 660
Views: 104347

Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024

Well it would make sense if Antares was the name of the machne itself, considering they are creating Polaris right now... and both are names of stars that well, as we all know, do fusion in their cores.
by AcesHigh
Tue Dec 20, 2022 6:08 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Replies: 660
Views: 104347

Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024

According to Wikipedia, Polaris will be able to produce 1 pulse per second for short periods, and Helion expects it to have net electricity production (not net "energy")

But there are already designing a new prototype called Antares... will Polaris be commercial or will only Antares be commercial?
by AcesHigh
Fri Dec 17, 2021 4:46 pm
Forum: News
Topic: SOFE Conference schedule
Replies: 13
Views: 4544

Re: SOFE Conference schedule

small virtual world
by AcesHigh
Wed Oct 02, 2019 3:22 am
Forum: News
Topic: Z-Pinch Renaissance
Replies: 208
Views: 192865

Re: Z-Pinch Renaissance

in all scenarios however, it would still open the Solar System for human colonization (which I do not really think Starship does... it opens the Star System for exploration by scientists, miltiary, bases creation, etc... but I don't think it's feasible to transport 100 civilians who were NOT screene...
by AcesHigh
Tue Oct 01, 2019 3:43 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Z-Pinch Renaissance
Replies: 208
Views: 192865

Re: Z-Pinch Renaissance

I do not know where people are seeing 10 million Isp. I read an Isp of ~360,000 seconds and 330 kN of thrust for the D+He3 configuration. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018APS..DPPC11163S Building on the ZaP, ZaP-HD, and FuZE projects, scaling studies will be presented of an SFS Z-pinch as a fusion...
by AcesHigh
Sun Aug 25, 2019 4:03 am
Forum: News
Topic: Z-Pinch Renaissance
Replies: 208
Views: 192865

Re: Z-Pinch Renaissance

by AcesHigh
Wed Jul 10, 2019 1:35 am
Forum: News
Topic: Z-Pinch Renaissance
Replies: 208
Views: 192865

Re: Z-Pinch Renaissance

I contacted ProjectRho administrator to talk about the Shared Flow Stabilized ZPinch. He was unaware of the 2006 paper with the torch ship like properties.

This was like 1 week ago.
by AcesHigh
Fri Jul 05, 2019 1:20 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Z-Pinch Renaissance
Replies: 208
Views: 192865

Re: Z-Pinch Renaissance

Are you Elmar?

The above post was very similar to the one posted at NSF forums.

I talked about a lander because I mentioned changing Starship to have a z pinch fusion engine, which I don't know if it would be ideal for take off and landings at planets.
by AcesHigh
Wed Jul 03, 2019 2:26 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Z-Pinch Renaissance
Replies: 208
Views: 192865

Re: Z-Pinch Renaissance

Lol, 90 days to Saturn is already better than expected. But 8 days to Saturn??? Screw impossible physics engines. There is a whole Star System to colonize. I was not even thinking 1g acceleration were possible Speaking of which... did you consider 1g just for fun or did you make some calculations re...
by AcesHigh
Tue Jul 02, 2019 3:57 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Z-Pinch Renaissance
Replies: 208
Views: 192865

Re: Z-Pinch Renaissance

Any torchship (high thrust high Isp) will have to deal with heat disposal problems. Aside that... what can we do with 10 million Isp and 1 MN thrust? Suppose SpaceX would find some way to install 2 of these on Starship (the upper stage), without modifying Starship payload space or weight. Starship L...
by AcesHigh
Mon Jul 01, 2019 1:38 am
Forum: News
Topic: Z-Pinch Renaissance
Replies: 208
Views: 192865

Re: Z-Pinch Renaissance

Has any paper mentioned some mission profile?

I would like to see what they expect with 10 million ISP and 1 meganewton of thrust.

and I wonder how many of these could you put in a ship...
by AcesHigh
Sat Aug 19, 2017 11:31 pm
Forum: News
Topic: SpaceX News
Replies: 2324
Views: 1154324

Re: SpaceX News

Was too cryptic. FH may also go from exciting to boring. Thus it'll be great for yet another novelty to also be made boring, after FH. And so on. Exciting times :P "Daddy, these vacations on the Moon are soooooooo boring. My school friends say Saturn is much cooler!" and of course, kids on constant...
by AcesHigh
Wed Sep 21, 2016 10:01 pm
Forum: News
Topic: EM Drive
Replies: 785
Views: 601945

Re: EM Drive

anyone listened the SpaceShow Mach Effect interview cited by Tom Ligon above?
by AcesHigh
Thu Apr 21, 2016 12:57 am
Forum: News
Topic: EM Drive
Replies: 785
Views: 601945

Re: EM Drive

But everybody ignore the real reason this will never work , and that would be heat from the power plant. You would have to radiate that heat out somewhere from the power plant and even with current tech that is no small feat. That, I would say, is just an engineering issue, not something I would be...
by AcesHigh
Fri Apr 15, 2016 1:17 am
Forum: News
Topic: Lockheed Skunkworks Announces Comm. Fusion in 4 years
Replies: 37
Views: 39777

Re: Lockheed Skunkworks Announces Comm. Fusion in 4 years

Did they say WHEN the 4 year countdown would start? "We expect a working fusion reactor in 4 years (starting to count as soon as we reach breakeven in our lab)" Or maybe, they are counting it from the reference frame of the electrons in their machinery, which moving near light speed in the electron ...