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- Sun Oct 22, 2023 10:27 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: ZAP Energy News
- Replies: 146
- Views: 35233
Re: ZAP Energy News
High current electrode erosion is an old industrial issue with working solutions. There is however more work for Zap because the electrode shape is important. I doubt we will get details on what exactly they are doing until they patent what ends up working. Technological advances always have the sam...
- Sat Oct 21, 2023 8:17 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: ZAP Energy News
- Replies: 146
- Views: 35233
Re: ZAP Energy News
From what I have seen there is serious work in progress, parallel teams doing the prototyping, actual hardware with success being reported on all aspects. This is not a vaporware company scamming fools out of hundreds of millions, with shady researchers.
- Sat Oct 21, 2023 8:09 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 682
- Views: 124167
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
And high voltage tested them already.
We desperately need to take every bit out of the schedule possible. Helion seems to not miss anything after their experience with building so many prototypes. News from Helion and Zap will shake the world energy tree.
We desperately need to take every bit out of the schedule possible. Helion seems to not miss anything after their experience with building so many prototypes. News from Helion and Zap will shake the world energy tree.
- Fri Oct 20, 2023 2:00 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: ZAP Energy News
- Replies: 146
- Views: 35233
Re: ZAP Energy News
The article mentions them in the next section:
III. ELECTRODE DAMAGE MITIGATION STRATEGIES
- Fri Oct 20, 2023 1:47 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: ZAP Energy News
- Replies: 146
- Views: 35233
Re: ZAP Energy News
Fortunately, several classes of solutions are available to reduce the cathode erosion problem to manageable levels.
- Fri Oct 20, 2023 12:32 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: ZAP Energy News
- Replies: 146
- Views: 35233
Re: ZAP Energy News
Zap Energy has a new paper out on electrode wear: https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pop/article/30/10/100601/2915124/Electrode-durability-and-sheared-flow-stabilized-Z The sheared-flow-stabilized (SFS) Z-pinch concept is on a path to commercialization at Zap Energy. Recent experiments on the Fusion Z-pinch E...
- Tue Oct 03, 2023 9:41 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 682
- Views: 124167
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
IMO, the importance of the NUCOR deal is that it enables Helion to make plans & helps ramp up their factory.
- Sun Oct 01, 2023 9:13 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 682
- Views: 124167
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
It is not clear from Helion's press release on the 500 MWe power plant for NUCOR, but I presume it is ten 50 MWe fusion electric power generators?
- Thu Sep 28, 2023 11:32 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 682
- Views: 124167
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
The biggest issue for foundries has been the loss of low cost coal power. Helion's low cost electric power will change that. This will be a revolution especially for aluminum. Titanium is also dependent on low cost electric power.
- Fri Sep 22, 2023 3:04 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: ZAP Energy News
- Replies: 146
- Views: 35233
Re: ZAP Energy News
Talk about accelerated path to commercial fusion!The new FuZE-Q 1 MJ class power bank, for example, was designed, built, assembled, commissioned, and generated first plasma, all within eight months.
- Fri Sep 22, 2023 2:54 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: ZAP Energy News
- Replies: 146
- Views: 35233
Re: ZAP Energy News
Excellent paper, super results. While this dataset provides solid evidence supporting the expected scaling, it does not give a direct measure of the associated efficiency of the process, as yield is plotted as a function of the total plasma current rather than the pinch current itself. (Note further...
- Sun Sep 03, 2023 12:13 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 682
- Views: 124167
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Indeed, Youtube is not reliable. Helion needs to post a video duplicate for each video on X (IMO).
- Thu Aug 17, 2023 11:00 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: National Ignition Facility
- Replies: 27
- Views: 19712
Re: National Ignition Facility
Yes, a glass half full looks different to different people and the future is promised to no one.
- Tue Aug 15, 2023 10:57 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 682
- Views: 124167
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
SJ
In the paper, Trenta is reported to be >0.5 m radius and Polaris as >1 m diameter. I found that to be odd and wondered if what was meant was Polaris was >1 m RADIUS? Looking at pictures I am guessing it was a typo in the paper and it should have been >1 m radius.
In the paper, Trenta is reported to be >0.5 m radius and Polaris as >1 m diameter. I found that to be odd and wondered if what was meant was Polaris was >1 m RADIUS? Looking at pictures I am guessing it was a typo in the paper and it should have been >1 m radius.
- Tue Aug 15, 2023 12:41 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: National Ignition Facility
- Replies: 27
- Views: 19712
Re: National Ignition Facility
Commercial Fusion = Space Age, Humanity freed from Earth's gravity well.