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Do these fusion reactors require ultra high vacuum (10-10 torr) or do they work with regular high vacuum (10-6 torr)? There was a Reuters article that provided an image with the following text appended: "Fusion energy startup Helion Energy's engineers test turbo pumps under ultra-high vacuum for th...

The Dynomak appeared on the infamous "voodoo fusion" list in April. Here's a link if anyone wants to revisit it:

https://news.newenergytimes.net/2022/04 ... on-energy/

Do I read correctly that Helion's plans are based on Helium-3 fuel? I recall the renewed interest in landing on the moon might be to harvest Helium-3. Here's what Helion has stated: Helion produces helium-3 by fusing deuterium in its plasma accelerator utilizing a patented high-efficiency closed-fu...

Though TAE and other companies think fusion will become viable in the next decade or so, Prager thinks 20 years is a more realistic timeline to produce net electricity from fusion. “I do have a fear that after five, 10 years when these companies don't deliver, it could smear the field a little bit,...

https://www.thinkgeoenergy.com/quaise-energy-secures-additional-12m-from-series-a-funding/ Quiase Energy has now raised a total of USD 52 million after an expansion of the initial Series A funding round. The article really doesn't say any more than that, except that they were spun out of the MIT Pla...

David Kirtley's retweet: "These new switches are great! In the photo is an impedance-matching toroid for the single switch test bed. Phase 2 requires more switches!" https://twitter.com/dekirtley/status/1532943769498112000?cxt=HBwWgMCqmZGPjsYqAAAA&cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&refsrc=email Although we...

https://neumannspace.com/two-more-in-orbit-demonstration-missions/ Neumann Space secures two new in-orbit demonstration missions with Skykraft including one with CisLunar Industries in-vacuum recycled Aluminium propellant In a world first, Neumann Space intends to on-board an Al 6061 fuel rod melted...

A lightweight article about them:

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/nu ... able-parts

Skipjack wrote: ↑

Sat May 21, 2022 5:44 pm

I think he is just thinking of the big fusion projects at the national labs. The guys there are still very skeptical of Helion and ZAP.

Quoting Upton Sinclair:

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

Australia's first laser fusion energy company HB11 Energy has been awarded a $22 million project to develop the next-generation high-power lasers needed to create a multi-billion dollar nuclear fusion energy industry from Australia, and export this capability to the world. https://en.prnasia.com/re...

they plan to... produce 20 fusion generators a day. That would be roughly 365 GW a year. That means they could produce enough fusion generators to serve the entire US grid in a little over 3 years! Replace the electricity production of the entire world in 7.5 years! Then what? They'll have nearly p...

The Polaris doors are in. In just six months, this site has gone from a slab of concrete to a 30,000 sq. ft. facility fit for the first generator to demonstrate net electricity from fusion. https://twitter.com/Helion_Energy/status/1518953559114407938 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FRRoG0uUYAEMryR?form...

Some fusion startups have been appearing in Japan: Kyoto Fusioneering: https://kyotofusioneering.com/en/ EX-Fusion: https://re-how.net/all/1381028/ Helical Fusion: https://re-how.net/all/1632621/ They've been attracting funding. Now one of Japan's major companies, Inpex, is looking to invest in them...

"Time to get some landscaping done!"

https://twitter.com/Helion_Energy/statu ... 6519204867

https://twitter.com/dekirtley/status/15 ... fsrc=email

https://lyten.com/lyten-receives-national-security-innovation-capital-contract-to-accelerate-battery-technology-for-commercial-and-national-security-use/ Lyten, an advanced materials company, announced today it has received a contract from the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) National Security Inn...