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- Sat Mar 23, 2024 6:11 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Company (Quaise Energy) plans to use fusion technology to drill for geothermal
- Replies: 19
- Views: 12769
Re: Company (Quaise Energy) plans to use fusion technology to drill for geothermal
The real strength behind Quaise is the fact that if it works as predicted they can drill holes 100 times faster than anyone else.
- Sun Dec 31, 2023 5:59 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Happy Holidays everyone!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6359
Re: Happy Holidays everyone!
Festivus for the rest of us. Festivus dinner, an unadorned aluminum Festivus pole, practices such as the "airing of grievances" and "feats of strength", and the labeling of easily explainable events as "Festivus miracles"
- Thu Aug 31, 2023 3:41 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 735
- Views: 180413
- Thu Aug 31, 2023 3:41 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 735
- Views: 180413
- Wed Apr 12, 2023 2:27 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: youtube Polywell critique with response from EMC2!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5355
Re: youtube Polywell critique with response from EMC2!
Old guys throwing down on new guys. Things just got interesting again.
- Tue Apr 11, 2023 1:19 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Feeling lonely sometimes
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6693
Re: Feeling lonely sometimes
Laments, I too just lurk once in a while. ahh for the heady days of real fusion news involving polywell. But I get it. Nobody wants to angel fund something that has a 25 percent chance of working. My hopes for polywell were a fusion rocket with an ISP of a million the design seemed perfect for that ...
- Mon Dec 26, 2022 9:34 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: National Ignition Facility
- Replies: 27
- Views: 34022
Re: National Ignition Facility
Fusion gain has been demonstrated for the first time!!! The NIF shot from the 5th of December 2022 had a 300 MJ wall plug input for a 2.05 MJ laser output and 3.15 MJ of fusion yield. So the Q value was about 1,5. It was reported that the fuel burn up rate in this shot was about 4 %. The NIF team w...
- Mon Dec 26, 2022 9:25 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Jäderberg future power - Swedish fusion startup
- Replies: 32
- Views: 14928
Re: Jäderberg future power - Swedish fusion startup
Wellat least we have something to talk about,
- Sat Dec 17, 2022 11:49 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 735
- Views: 180413
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
WOW! now for Q=10
- Thu Dec 01, 2022 3:15 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: material science advancements
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1853
material science advancements
20 tesla magnets are commercially available. Does anybody have any thought on the possibility of overcoming the problems that were discovered under lesser field strengths? Or should we put this concept to bed once and for all?
- Sat Mar 05, 2022 1:35 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Company (Quaise Energy) plans to use fusion technology to drill for geothermal
- Replies: 19
- Views: 12769
Re: Company (Quaise Energy) plans to use fusion technology to drill for geothermal
If they can reliably bust the 10 mile (16 KM) this is a game changer, every coal fired plant could be brought back to life for what 5 years of fuel costs. Running costs would be minimal after that. all on a footprint where the coal used to sit before burning.
- Wed Jan 19, 2022 3:18 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Hydrostor - compressed air energy storage
- Replies: 25
- Views: 9825
Re: Hydrostor - compressed air energy storage
[Here is an idea, use the green energy to suck the co2 out of the air and reform it back into fuel.
Oh wait that steps on to many big oil toes.
Oh wait that steps on to many big oil toes.
- Sun Sep 19, 2021 12:51 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: We lost so many members :(
- Replies: 48
- Views: 34151
Re: We lost so many members :(
By the by, EMC2 is still not dead either. New focuses, same premises. If Jaeyoung gains more traction you may yet see something. Been a lot of work on the simulation side these last couple of years. I agree, Simulation testing in design has been a thing for a long time. But in the past two years I ...
- Sun Sep 12, 2021 1:46 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: "Former fusion scientist on why we won't have fusion power by 2040"
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9053
Re: "Former fusion scientist on why we won't have fusion power by 2040"
With the advent of new commercially available 20T magnets brings me hope. But that huge barrier of no funding is still the 400 pound gorilla in the room. "Performance of this magnet is similar to a non-superconducting one that was used in an MIT experiment that concluded its experiments five years a...
- Wed Aug 18, 2021 12:14 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: We lost so many members :(
- Replies: 48
- Views: 34151
Re: We lost so many members :(
We are still out here, waiting, watching, and wondering what comes next and can we overcome the roadblock by "high pressure fusion"