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- Sun Oct 01, 2023 9:13 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 671
- Views: 112976
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
It is not clear from Helion's press release on the 500 MWe power plant for NUCOR, but I presume it is ten 50 MWe fusion electric power generators?
- Thu Sep 28, 2023 11:32 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 671
- Views: 112976
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
The biggest issue for foundries has been the loss of low cost coal power. Helion's low cost electric power will change that. This will be a revolution especially for aluminum. Titanium is also dependent on low cost electric power.
- Fri Sep 22, 2023 3:04 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: ZAP Energy News
- Replies: 140
- Views: 29818
Re: ZAP Energy News
Talk about accelerated path to commercial fusion!The new FuZE-Q 1 MJ class power bank, for example, was designed, built, assembled, commissioned, and generated first plasma, all within eight months.
- Fri Sep 22, 2023 2:54 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: ZAP Energy News
- Replies: 140
- Views: 29818
Re: ZAP Energy News
Excellent paper, super results. While this dataset provides solid evidence supporting the expected scaling, it does not give a direct measure of the associated efficiency of the process, as yield is plotted as a function of the total plasma current rather than the pinch current itself. (Note further...
- Sun Sep 03, 2023 12:13 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 671
- Views: 112976
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Indeed, Youtube is not reliable. Helion needs to post a video duplicate for each video on X (IMO).
- Thu Aug 17, 2023 11:00 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: National Ignition Facility
- Replies: 27
- Views: 17486
Re: National Ignition Facility
Yes, a glass half full looks different to different people and the future is promised to no one.
- Tue Aug 15, 2023 10:57 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 671
- Views: 112976
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
SJ
In the paper, Trenta is reported to be >0.5 m radius and Polaris as >1 m diameter. I found that to be odd and wondered if what was meant was Polaris was >1 m RADIUS? Looking at pictures I am guessing it was a typo in the paper and it should have been >1 m radius.
In the paper, Trenta is reported to be >0.5 m radius and Polaris as >1 m diameter. I found that to be odd and wondered if what was meant was Polaris was >1 m RADIUS? Looking at pictures I am guessing it was a typo in the paper and it should have been >1 m radius.
- Tue Aug 15, 2023 12:41 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: National Ignition Facility
- Replies: 27
- Views: 17486
Re: National Ignition Facility
Commercial Fusion = Space Age, Humanity freed from Earth's gravity well.
- Fri Aug 11, 2023 12:32 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: National Ignition Facility
- Replies: 27
- Views: 17486
Re: National Ignition Facility
It will open the entire solar system to habitation as energy from the sun (solar cell derived power) will no longer be a restriction. It is a really big area.space exploration
- Wed Aug 09, 2023 1:29 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: General Fusion in the news
- Replies: 591
- Views: 363335
Re: General Fusion in the news
It was posted that this new, interim machine was planned but GF did not have an announcement on their site. The pressure is on to show progress to utilities that will be making generation plans, remember, utilities have to look at generation in terms of decades. https://mailchi.mp/generalfusion/gene...
Re: LK-99
Commercial fusion is near term and gets no excitement like this superconductor research story, a promise of a possibility. This is absurd, a complete lack of perspective, it smells like normal narrative smoke blowing, IMO. Sorry, UFO's got a lot of excitement too. Fusion is about to change the world...
- Fri Jul 28, 2023 9:02 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: General Fusion in the news
- Replies: 591
- Views: 363335
Re: General Fusion in the news
Helion's time line has put pressure on the fusion industry as a whole, with ZAP a further possible issue. I wonder what General Fusion can do with a smaller machine that aims at only breaking if Helion comes in with net electric (late) 2024? Crunch time.
- Tue Jul 25, 2023 6:24 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 671
- Views: 112976
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Buildings use cooling towers placed on roofs for their HVAC equipment, so it is common equipment. Helion fusion generators are reported to be 95% net electric efficient, so a 50 MWe generator would be rejecting 2.5 MW of heat. That is not a large cooling tower. Also electric distribution transformer...
- Mon Jul 24, 2023 4:16 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 671
- Views: 112976
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Helion machines should just need monitoring and should not need cooling ponds, rivers, ocean heat sinks. Location on nuclear fission sites for utility power would be an obvious choice to start with, but location on steel, aluminum foundry sites would also make sense. Eventually, it would make sense ...
- Mon Jul 24, 2023 10:33 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 671
- Views: 112976
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Musk won't even talk about it, LOL! Still, nothing will stop it now.