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- Tue Feb 20, 2024 4:49 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 671
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Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
My understanding was that the goal for the tritium was to store it, allow it to decay to He3, then burn that in the generator. Of course, this was before I knew the market price for tritium was so high. I was not paying attention to the tritium price either. There are at least two likely viable com...
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 2:13 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: General Fusion in the news
- Replies: 591
- Views: 363333
Re: General Fusion in the news
LM-26 was mentioned in their January 11, 2024 news letter, but I had no idea what it was and this latest publication (TY Crowberry) illuminates that. In abbreviated review (my understanding), GF has followed a fusion path of concept (mechanical compression of plasma using steam pistons and a spinnin...
- Sun Jan 14, 2024 12:19 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
AI compute clusters are power hogs & huge pressure to supply it is escalating exponentially. If Helion can scale there will be a market that dwarfs steel foundries.
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 2:42 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
SJ, any idea what the new earthwork is all about at Helion's new plant? Accelerating production plans??
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 5:54 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
I am not sure whether future power plants will need much larger capacitor banks. I would not be surprised if you are largely correct that there would not be a significant increase in capacitor energy storage to handle net power. 3 phase power summed is non time varying, constant, and transformers a...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 5:39 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
Remaining gasses have to be evacuated after the pulse, and their patented high volume vacuum pump is key to doing this fast.
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 3:13 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
happy if they managed to power a light bulb. Yes. That was the context for Polaris power production, just to reach net electric, not commercial. I thought that was understood. Hence the capacitor sizing for polaris is just to form the plasma, accelerate, then compress it, then recover it minus loss...
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 4:27 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 article conflates Polaris starting operation with operation to produce net electric power by mid 2024. I am happy to hear Helion's progress towards operation of Polaris. So is this schedule improvement or delay, I cannot tell; if it is a delay, any idea the cause?
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 4:17 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: General Fusion in the news
- Replies: 591
- Views: 363333
Re: General Fusion in the news
Huge announcement by General Fusion. Their last hurdle was a proven liquid metal wall compression chamber for their plasma.
https://mailchi.mp/generalfusion/publis ... c2986861e1
https://mailchi.mp/generalfusion/publis ... c2986861e1
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 1:43 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
pulse length in Polaris is somewhere around 1 ms Plasma duration at point of compression in the device center is one time, which I suspect SJ is saying is ~1ms, then there is the magnetic field sequential firing to accelerate the plasma from each end to collide & to be further compressed, and that ...
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 5:58 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
Dave, the speed of the plasma as I remember is accelerated to 1 million mph, so the pulse length is very short, so curent flow is huge (look at the conductors to the coils). You might recall that the power electronics capability is only recent if that gives you some reference. To calculate the time ...
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 6:34 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Humble hopes for 2024
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1499
Re: Humble hopes for 2024
Good list!
- Thu Dec 28, 2023 8:54 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: ZAP Energy News
- Replies: 140
- Views: 29818
Re: ZAP Energy News
Plenty of time to have instabilities, Q(science)>1 is just the start, plenty more ramp to go to commercial. Still, why take the gloomy Gus doubter position for no reason? And if there is a stability issue, likely there is a workaround. On the other hand, Helion does not have the plasma stability iss...
- Tue Dec 26, 2023 10:22 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: ZAP Energy News
- Replies: 140
- Views: 29818
Re: ZAP Energy News
Call me pedantic, but saying they won’t hit breakeven this year when it’s December 26 isn’t breaking my heart… Based on current capability, no matter running into early trouble delivering the current into an actual device pinch, they are close to proving their ability to reach breakeven. We see tha...
- Mon Dec 25, 2023 11:37 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Happy Holidays everyone!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1305
Re: Happy Holidays everyone!
Merry Christmas!!! (Today's act of supreme rebellion).