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The launch was pretty cool and the test achieved their main objective to getting through staging. They will have plenty of data to sift through and make improvements for the next launch.

For example, this one from 2016 speaks of 40 Tesla (page 2). That one was for low pulse rate, high gain D-T, not the high pulse rate low gain they are going for. I know for certain that the graphs in their recent papers were for 20 Tesla magnets. They might go up a tiny bit with field strength and/...

I have never heard about it being 30 Tesla. Last number I got was 20 Tesla used for the graphs in their recent paper.

Helion capacitor manufacturing: https://x.com/Helion_Energy/status/1722366083653320932?s=20 We continue to scale up capacitor manufacturing in Antares. Our team is now producing 20 new capacitors a week, which will make up 10% of Polaris’ capacitor bank. So Polaris will need 200 capacitors, or 10 we...

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Tue Nov 07, 2023 5:44 pm

I wouldn't want to be an electrician on that installation crew. Talk about mind numbing repetition. That's a lot of wires and caps.

From what I understand, they have established a good and efficient process for all of this. Might not be as bad as it seems...

Another new newsletter. Big improvements, but still not near their record shot from years ago:
https://www.lppfusion.com/storage/LPPFu ... 1-2023.pdf

Consensus is that they are talking a lot of technobabble. Their alleged "verification" by various entities does not hold up to scrutiny. Feels like another Rossi- kind of scheme...

My guess is neither. Self delusion, probably.

These wires are not for the magnet coils. Their magnets are monolithic aluminum.

To be clear, this is the formation test and not the actual Polaris machine, which is still under construction. The formation test does help them test things, learn and reduce the amount of bugs they will encounter with Polaris early on though.

Helion got the cables for Polaris delivered recently. 1000 km worth of cabling! That is a lot of cables. Received a massive shipment of cable - over a megameter in total! Our team has meticulously hipot tested every 500-meter spool, ensuring they're all set for installation on Polaris. HelionCabling...

New newsletter is out. Not much news. They went to a conference. According to presenters there PB11 fusion yield surpasses simulations. LPPF is going to use decaborane for fuel. Since it is toxic, they need some filters, which they are currently working on. https://www.lppfusion.com/storage/LPPFusio...

New Helion Energy Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/helionenergy/coils-capacitors-customers We are working to get Polaris built as quickly as possible, with an aim of having the full machine together early next year. Over the past three months, the work our team has been doing to prepare for Polaris ov...

Thank you Skipjack, very interesting. I just rechecked their website to confirm that my memory was accurate, and yes, that data point is still not there. I know it is not on the website. I assume that Helion have their reasons for that. Helion is in their absolute right to tell as much or as little...

It they had tried burning D-T (which at the 8 keV ion temp they reached is ~750 times more reactive than D-D), they would have a clue, but they didn't, or at least Helion's web says they didn't (which confuses me because Dr. Kirtley is shown in one of the videos from last year with a small tank of ...