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Hehehe, only two years late
Still remarkable, I think.

Given my bad mental health, please forgive me. But this reads awful: they are quietly saying their system doesn’t work. Can anyone help understand and/or cheer me up? RERT Eh? Where do you see that? They have already been doing the things the paper suggests need to be done (increasing mirror fields...

Yup! Great paper!

Helion Polaris video showing construction and one of the first pulses they did. I saw that video & at the end of it was what appeared to me a pulse, & it was my guess that it was a pulse operation of Polaris. So, it is your information based on this pulse that Polaris is now in operation? I had it ...

Helion Polaris video showing construction and one of the first pulses they did.
2025 is gearing up to become an exciting year!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9clxjLKB-k

Happy Holidays!

5 to 10 ms confinement is pretty long for a plasmoid like that. Suprised by that a bit.

CFS selected a site for ARC in Chesterfield County, Virginia, near Richmond. Timeline is the early 2030ies. That's it.

New YouTube video on their theory for direct energy recovery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nHmqk1cI2E&t=5s Interesting comment by David Kirtley: A good question to ask is: How do we know the physics works? We see it every day with FRCs – in fact, magnetic flux exclusion, which is direct electric...

Information dump, since I have been super busy at work lately with little time to post here: Special Competitive Studies Project: Future of Energy Generation and Storage with David Kirtley and Brandon Sorbom of CFS. Not much news here but still a nice talk. David Kirtley talks about why they are so ...

To be fair, everyone has seen delays. This is not uncommon with large engineering projects. Helion has seen delays too, mostly due to supply problems and the need to build more in-house. I am sure CFS experienced the same if not worse with their much more complex machine and need for a lot of HTSC t...

Yo, wonder whats up with that. Oddly enough, their major radius is exactly the same as the latest version of ARC by CFS.

One of the dramatic innovations, which had many others in the field skeptical of its chances of success, was the elimination of insulation around the thin, flat ribbons of superconducting tape that formed the magnet. Like virtually all electrical wires, conventional superconducting magnets are full...

Does anyone know the expected temperate of the heat needing to be dissipated? Is air cooling a possibility? Polaris is still air cooled. Future power plants will have a higher pulse rate and will (very likely) need other means of cooling. From what I understand heating from X-rays is actually a big...

Absolutely insane engineering there! I did not believe they would be able to do it at the very first attempt but they did!
Science Fiction is boring in comparison!