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- Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:35 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 677
- Views: 119599
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Why do the vacuum vessels need to be quartz? I mean, I like it that they are, but is there any practical advantage over solid metal vessels?
- Thu Nov 16, 2023 7:47 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Taylor Wilson in EcoHeat YouTube ad
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- Views: 3152
Taylor Wilson in EcoHeat YouTube ad
I don't know how long this has been around, but I just saw a YouTube advertisement for something called EcoHeat, supposedly invented by a bright high school student named "Martin" to help heat his school after it failed to receive approval for a badly-needed new heating system. However, in the accom...
- Mon Jul 17, 2023 6:27 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Lawaranceville E-Newsletter
- Replies: 880
- Views: 538997
Re: Lawaranceville E-Newsletter
There haven't been any updates on the LPP website since May, but their crowdfunding effort is ongoing. They've passed their first milestone of $100,000, and have set a new target of $200,000 by the end of July. Also, they posted this to their Wefunder page: https://wefunder.com/updates/165053-dense-...
- Mon Mar 27, 2023 5:14 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Lawaranceville E-Newsletter
- Replies: 880
- Views: 538997
Re: Lawaranceville E-Newsletter
I wasn't expecting another report so soon, but it looks like one was published mid-month: Part 1 Part 2 Part 1 consists of a call for funding, a press mention of an LPPFusion spin-off idea, and coverage of the TAE/LHD p-B11 experiments. The major takeaways are that their paper was published on March...
- Mon Mar 27, 2023 4:39 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: My experience with Chat GPT-4
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3718
Re: My experience with Chat GPT-4
"On two occasions, I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ― Charles Babbage
- Sun Jan 01, 2023 1:02 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Lawaranceville E-Newsletter
- Replies: 880
- Views: 538997
Re: Lawaranceville E-Newsletter
November 30 report December 30 report The upshot of both reports is that LPPFusion has been testing an updated switch design testbed, and the results have been promising. LPPFusion is optimistic that this switch design will enable them to fire FF-2B at a high enough current, and with enough simulta...
- Sun Jun 05, 2022 4:41 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Lawaranceville E-Newsletter
- Replies: 880
- Views: 538997
Re: Lawaranceville E-Newsletter
Equally important, the entire spectrum from 300 nm to 800 nm shows only the lines of deuterium, beryllium, oxygen and nitrogen - no heavier elements are present at all. The nitrogen is not an impurity but is deliberately introduced as a mixing gas for experimental purposes . Now, that's news I've b...
- Thu Nov 25, 2021 6:18 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: KSTAR - South Korea's magnetic fusion device
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3018
Re: KSTAR - South Korea's magnetic fusion device
The news appears to be that KSTAR "broke its own record". You might think that meant it held the previous record, and that ought to be a reasonable assumption.
Lawyers, politicians, and headline writers.
Lawyers, politicians, and headline writers.
- Mon Nov 15, 2021 12:24 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Chinese Scientists Say They’ve Discovered Cheap New Way to Do Nuclear Fusion
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1919
Re: Chinese Scientists Say They’ve Discovered Cheap New Way to Do Nuclear Fusion
From the referenced SCMP article:
Lead researcher Zhang Zhe predicts a new generation of large-scale laser facilities will be finished or near completion in China by 2026.
- Wed Sep 15, 2021 11:13 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Z-Pinch Renaissance
- Replies: 208
- Views: 197973
Re: Z-Pinch Renaissance
These efforts aim to scale the pinch current, plasma density, and plasma temperature to reach scientific breakeven equivalent conditions by early 2023 in the next generation device FuZE-Q, which is currently being commissioned. I'm guessing this means that they expect to achieve conditions with DD ...
- Wed Aug 18, 2021 3:44 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: LLNL "at threshold of fusion ignition"
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1892
LLNL "at threshold of fusion ignition"
LLNL has announced that on August 8 the National Ignition Facility achieved a fusion yield of more than 1.3 megajoules. This is not quite ignition, but it is getting there. Omar Hurricane is quoted as saying, "To me, this is a Wright Brothers moment," which is what's making the headlines , but he al...
- Thu May 13, 2021 3:33 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Small Tri Alpha news blurp
- Replies: 255
- Views: 265831
Re: Small Tri Alpha news blurp
Dr. Jaeyoung Park is a co-author of the paper, and his affiliation is given as "TAE Technologies, Inc." When did that happen?
- Fri Mar 26, 2021 5:26 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Lawaranceville E-Newsletter
- Replies: 880
- Views: 538997
Re: Lawaranceville E-Newsletter
Also, with lower Z brehmstralung should be lower, so the plasma would heat up faster, other things equal. That could be a compelling reason to test with D+He3. My understanding is that Bremsstrahlung is supposed to be minimized by the quantum magnetic field effect, but LPPFusion hasn't yet reached ...
- Thu Mar 25, 2021 5:55 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Lawaranceville E-Newsletter
- Replies: 880
- Views: 538997
Re: Lawaranceville E-Newsletter
I asked a similar question (though not specifically about He3) a long time ago on the Focus Fusion forums. I forget exactly what the answer is, but my understanding of the fuel situation is this: deuterium (what LPP has been using) is useful mainly for diagnostic purposes because it produces neutron...
- Wed Mar 24, 2021 7:51 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: 2021 state of the horse race: ITER vs. dark horses
- Replies: 44
- Views: 19237
Re: 2021 state of the horse race: ITER vs. dark horses
You are stuck in the thinking that these companies are still trying to prove their science. I'm not sure I understand what you're implying. I see perhaps three possibilities: 1) These companies don't have to prove their science to the general public. No doubt this is true for now and until they hav...