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Good for them! The red tape in the US will the downfall of this country! The Chinese (and the Russians to a lesser extent) are not waiting for us! Let's hope that SpaceX can deliver! I do not agree with Musk on many things (especially his politics) but man! He put the US back on the map in terms of ...

Thanks, would love to see them break 10K eV before the end of the year. Then we'd start to learn just how much fuel ion heating by fusion products is actually possible. 20KeV? 50 KeV? They are planning for somewhere between 20 keV to 30 keV for their actual power plants. I suspect that Polaris will...

4.25 meters radius! That is pretty big! For reference that is more than 2/3 the size of ITER! And that is for 80 MWe power out. So it is marginally smaller than ITER and also uses HTSCs. ARC is a conventional Tomakak and 270 MWe with a major radius of only 3.3 m... I thought STs were supposed to be ...

https://www.energy.senate.gov/hearings/2024/9/full-committee-hearing-to Thank you for the link Bennmann. Not much new in there, but I found some of the answers interesting, although I think the witnesses could have offered some better arguments a couple times. For example, when Sen. Hoeven seemed f...

Yeah, they are a bit behind schedule. Not surprising given the challenges with the supply chain and all that.

Yeah, Zap is my second front runner after Helion. I love their design. Let's hope that the new funding really is an indicator that Fuze-Q performed at least close to expectations.

I wonder whether this is an indication that FuZE-Q achieved Qsci > 1.

That would make a lot of noise. Broad access to clean and abundant energy is more important for national security than any military application.
AND if they are in some way restricted and slowed down, the Chinese will take over the market like they did with fission and batteries, etc.

From all I hear, they are still aiming to have Polaris completed before the end of year. Note that they often release information/pictures/videos out of order. Could be months after they were filmed.
That said, 2025 is more likely for the first net electricity tests (I predicted that a while ago).

I had understood that the power supply in this test machine was what was smaller, that the latest improvements were increases in its power. Helion needed to add high voltage capacitors as they were manufactured and that was the power supply hold up. Perhaps there was more to it than just the power ...

The formation test machine is a separate machine from Polaris. From what I understand, it is slightly smaller than the formation test section of Polaris, but close enough to give them a head start.

So essentially what Realtor Fusion and UWM is doing (and they already have a first plasma with HTSCs).

New newsletter from LPPF. They seem to be making progress on the funding and the experimental side. PB11 experiments with Beryllium electrode are now set to start next month (we will see, but fingers crossed). They also seem to have improved their symmetry with pre- ionization. Overall good news fro...

That first link it wrong bud!

Ohhh! This one will be interesting!

https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DPP24/Session/TP12.150

Gets the popcorn...