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Novatron has published a poster about their device. It will be interesting to learn about the results from their first prototype, which is supposed to be ready later this year. They will soon submit three papers for publication. https://www.novatronfusion.com/news/2024-novatron-fusion-group-joins-50...

Well said charliem, I agree with what you wrote. In the end the important thing is that someone creates economically viable fusion. The problem with fusion is so hard that no stone should be left unturned trying to find a solution, so it makes sense to research all sensible concepts.

It is written in the paper that they only included results from peer reviewed papers. There has never been a peer reviewed publication with a polywell triple product result AFAIK, so this is why the polywell is missing from that paper.

To meet the goal of small scale net electricity production with Polaris during 2024 Helion Energy must of course have Polaris ready a reasonable time before the end of the year assuming there are no delays. I guess meeting this target that was set a few years ago is hard enough that Helion Energy ha...

It could be that the additional funding is needed for project Century? The number of people at Zap Energy was listed as 60 in 2022, 140 in 2023 and 150 in the FIA 2024 report, so the last years increase was modest. In addition to salary costs they will have many other expenses to cover. In order to ...

In the FIA 2024 report Zap Energy presents its plan for an integrated facility called Century: Century is the first fully integrated demonstration of three major plant-relevant technologies operating at up to 100 kilowatts of input power. It will validate repetitive pulsed power supplies, plasma-fac...

The Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) 2024 conference took place during the time July 21–25, 2024. Only the titles of the presentations are available, but this paper is interesting: Ion-Beam-Driven Polywell Fusion Prototypic Neutron Source by Ross Radel (SHINE Technologies), Nicholas Krall (EMC2), ...

The FIA has published for the fourth time their annual global fusion industry report giving an interesting overview of fusion development and progress since last year. It can be downloaded from this page: https://www.fusionindustryassociation.o ... y-reports/.

Helion Energy is on schedule according to their statements in the following two articles. The article Nuclear Fusion Pushes to Reach Commercial Power Plant Stage published on June 27, 2024 states: “If successful, Polaris will be the first fusion machine to demonstrate electricity production,” Helion...

John Slough will give a presentation at TOFE 2024:

The Technology and Methodology for Attaining Ignition in a Small-Scale FRC Fusion Reactor
4:05–4:25PM CDT
John Slough (MSNW LLC)

https://www.ans.org/meetings/tofe2024/s ... view-2627/

John Coogan has made this video about Avalanche Fusion: https://youtu.be/o2VuPJ40yEw . Avalnche Fusion will present at TOFE 2024: Hybrid Electrostatic/Magnetic Confinement Orbitron Fusion Reactor: Overview of Scientific Program at Avalanche Energy 3:15–3:40PM CDT Robin Langtry (Avalanche Energy) The...

General Fusion has described in detail their plans for LM26 and their preceeding steps: https://generalfusion.com/post/charting ... with-lm26/.

Skipjack, the link to patent 3 is the same as the link to patent 2.

The Inaugural Private-Public Fusion Workshop will be streamed from the 27th to the 28th of May 2024: https://indico.iter.org/event/270/.

I have heard that being said by people from Helion before. It is interesting because it suggests that Trenta was already powerful enough for at least some theoretical net electricity, if it had had the equipment for it. My guess from D-T fusion, not D-He3. Polaris will confirm whether their energy ...