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Looks like Helion has set their eyes on a site for the Microsoft power plant.

https://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/loc ... 303bc.html

Getting the same issue. Also after each post, I end up on a blank page...

Yeah, I tried posting this (Tritium) earlier, but the forum errors prevented me from doing so. Looks like they are fixed now, though.

In other news. There is a new video regarding Helion's simulation work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FwOeN-zcPY

We don't know if she read their recent paper, but that is moot because it had no experimental results. I can tell that she did not read the paper because of the things she said. What you meant to say is that Sabine did not attend the American physics conference where some Trenta results were mentio...

Hossenfelder did not even bother to read their recent paper. Helion did publish results for Trenta.
The argument about their missed timeline is moot because that timeline was of course contingent on sufficient funding, which Helion did not have until 2021...

I believe the disassembly was always planned for ARC and not SPARC. SPARC won't need it because it won't be operating for long enough to need that sort of maintenance. It is also small enough to make taking apart easier than for ARC.

Short video interview with David Kirtley. Not much new there for us who follow Helion, but still worth noting.

https://x.com/twistartups/status/1889840037426077732

Most of the things above were already things we knew, or had at least suspected. The comment by David Kirtley about 100s of pulses per second is interesting. I suspect that this is not any of the big machines, but probably relates to the smaller prototypes, or maybe the FRC- propulsion- system they ...

New Helion Blog post and comment from David Kirtley: In addition to unlocking high-efficiency direct energy recovery, pulsed fusion can also be load following to meet the real time needs of an AI datacenter or an electric arc steel plant! We’ve demonstrated ramping FRC pulsed plasmas from 0 to hundr...

Helion just got another 425 million in investment! Today we’re sharing news of our oversubscribed and upsized $425 million fundraise! I am very excited for what this funding will enable for us. We will be radically scaling up our manufacturing in the U.S. – enabling us to build capacitors, magnets,...

So, I hear that they can indeed go smaller with stronger magnets. They affect everything positively including radius. Wall loads are more from X-rays. For those it is a factor of wall thickness that matters. Also how well the material absorbs X-rays, I suppose.

Recent post by Helion on X: While we operate our 7th fusion prototype, Polaris, we're continuing to improve performance for our future commercial systems. Our team is developing new materials to increase strength and conductivity in our generator’s coils, enabling more efficient fusion to take shape...

I thought Toks were more in the 5% or lower- range. Still high beta is good, if they can make it work.

Btw, according to Robin Langtry, it does 200 micro Ampere. In case anyone wanted to know.