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Baker, TY for pulling the vids & links. Insight into the reality of Helion Fusion Generator build is helpful in calibrating time expectation. As a guess, the hard engineering is behind Helion by now, but we will just have to wait for the plasma optimization results.

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 shutd...

Some confirmatory words that they are making reproducible net energy positive plasmas in the Polaris machine and that physics are according to projections

Running out of 2025 days. I wonder what the issue is?

LOL, for sure ‘easiest’ does not equal easy. Nothing is easy in space.

David Kirtley response, Totally right - it isn’t simple! In these photos you are seeing impedance matched coaxial cables - specially designed for the minimum resistance for the operational pulse width, to minimize internal reflections, and to minimize flux loss (EMI). A lot of good engineering happe...

2:25 Spacecraft near Earth use solar power, but in deep space that gets impractical. Nuclear power uses fuel with high energy density. However, nuclear generators using a steam cycle are hard to cool. Siting is one of the biggest issues for all electric generation plants, not just space. Of the man...

On a different note: There is a new video on Youtube. It shows some new (previously unseen) footage of their facility and has some interesting insights into their engineering, the magnet development and the challenges. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyOL2S3N6Kw Super video. Thanks SJ for the link ...

From Helion’s latest update Polaris testing accelerates We’re conducting fusion operations daily in Everett. Right now, the team is refining our test parameters and fine-tuning the system to maximize performance. With our plasma, neutron, and electrical diagnostics suites, we are measuring machine p...

That also makes him biased because fusion would compete with his business. I can understand for space because of simplicity, but time is running out fast for arguments that it makes sense on Earth, Moon, or Mars (conversion efficiency is the key, not a thermal cycle with huge heat rejection %). Onc...

baking, Thank you for that YT link, it was a hilarious deconstruction of ‘Dyson Spheres’ & further, I had never heard that Dyson intended it to be a joke (even to me it was an absurd idea, could not understand why Dyson would write about it, but now it makes sense). Because ‘Dyson Spheres’ were absu...

EM made the point that Tokamak can ‘work’ by simple scaling, not wrong, but the issue is Tokamak practicality, & EM points it out by citing it has a wall challenge. My point is that the wall problem is Tokamak’s problem not Fusion’s problem. It's a simple logic error. Yes, it's not the only logic er...

I can’t understand why Elon Musk talks about Tokamak first wall heat problem as representative of Fusion (latest pod cast, at the end, around 1hr25min), when Helion Energy converts plasma power via magnetic dynamics. If someone is going to speak on a subject as important as Fusion for energy, at lea...

As a WAG, EM Drive is being turned off & on to get effect data, so altitude won’t be evident in the beginning. Anyone with inside contacts to know?

SJ wrote,

At this point, they are ~10 months behind their original schedule which called for net electricity in 2024. It is quite a significant scope for an engineering project

I hope Helion is not using DEI to staff their project.

No more operation of Polaris in ‘Reaver Mode’.