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My understanding from Kirtley's talks is that the 50MW size is based on fastest time-to-market device that can also fit on a semi trailer. So basically, a marketing decision to make a machine that can be deployed broadly. Based on the basic scaling assumptions, a larger diameter machine should be mo...

mvanwink5 - you beat me to it! Thanks for posting.
More great news!
Here's a follow up article citing the above journal article, for targeting the lay audience:
https://scitechdaily.com/zap-energy-unv ... ergy-gain/

Another popular article on Helion. Nothing technical in this, as it's for a general audience. And that seems both notable and positive:
https://www.businessinsider.com/helion- ... oft-2023-5

Tokamak Energy's spheramak is making news by passing the 100 Million degree C milestone, which they claim is a first for spheramaks: https://www.sciencealert.com/a-compact-fusion-reactor-barely-3-feet-across-has-hit-a-huge-milestone Congrats to them. I believe that the more progress with more approa...

Another article about the Helion/Microsoft deal: Microsoft just made a huge, far-from-certain bet on nuclear fusion https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/10/23717332/microsoft-nuclear-fusion-power-plant-helion-purchase-agreement Regarding delivering fusion-based electricity to Microsoft: To say that’s a t...

The Microsoft deal seems to be having it's intended effect: generating interest in Helion. Here's an article from MIT Technology Review with a skeptical headline and a few skeptical "experts", but the author seems a bit more hopeful: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/10/1072812/this-startup-s...

The article states that this design utilizes a modified Knight ion trap, which is a type of Kingdon axial ion trap geometry. So definitely not a Polywell. It appears to be more along the lines of Helion or TAE in geometry, as the article mentions that they are using ion guns, which presumably are or...

Especially if it goes criminal, which again, I think there is a decent chance it will. Although from what we've seen I do think Rossi has committed crime(s) based on FL laws, and from my point of view I think he should be prosecuted, I'm actually doubtful that he will be prosecuted. The main reason...

Correct me if I am wrong but under normal circumstance they can not take his home, and if he does not have the money/assets to make full restitution he will just "owe" them. It is then entirely possible he may avoid jail time if he agrees to that. Except that the State of Florida has laws against "...

Perhaps a jury will not award much or anything. But you know that IH is aiming to shut down Rossi one way or another because they brought up his "Unfair Trade Practices' and non-payment of taxes. So regardless of what happens between IH and Rossi, even if they settle, Rossi might serve time in jail ...

Double post. See below

Going out on a limb with that prediction paperburn?

Didn't IH say it worked well when they sold investers on it? Yes because Rossisaid. After all, there was a 'secret' customer who Rossisaid was happily getting lots of energy from his plant, and an 'indipindint' (as Rossi spells it) verification, who Matts Lewan said "has been controlled by a major ...

Parallel, there are actually several pieces of new information obtained recently, that we no longer have to speculate about. 1) Thomas Darden, president, manager and director of Industrial Heat, said that IH “has worked for over three years to substantiate the results claimed by Mr. Rossi from the E...

Hold on a second.. Am I to understand they recently _shortened_ the contract completion time, _while keeping the funding the same_? If you keep the funding the same for something, it by definition means that it does not cost you anything, regardless of whether you made it shorter or longer. Making ...