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- Wed Apr 27, 2022 4:58 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 660
- Views: 104488
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
If successful, this project becomes the single most valuable intellectual property on the planet. Are there any hints on business models? Personally, I would prefer a that a single time payment is arranged and then have it made open source. A 100 dollar from every taxpayer in the USA and EU should b...
- Tue Apr 26, 2022 4:53 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: First Light Fusion News
- Replies: 18
- Views: 17355
Re: First Light Fusion News
I was struck by the idea of weaponizing this technology. To make a pure fusion gun type weapon. But: https://firstlightfusion.com/technology/power-plant "We are aiming for a power plant producing ~150 MW of electricity, firing once every 30 seconds" 120 firings an hour. Which should make for a 12500...
- Sat Apr 02, 2022 7:05 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 660
- Views: 104488
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Sites with nuclear power plants should be straight forward for installations. Existing nuclear power sites are in remote locations. Which makes for huge investments in electricity transfer infrastructure and long commutes for service staff. At normal operations, this technology should have an envir...
- Wed Mar 30, 2022 5:34 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Lyten - Lithium Sulfur Battery
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8126
Re: Lyten - Lithium Sulfur Battery
Then we keep our fingers crossed and hope for some specifications for an actual cell. Claiming you have a Li-S battery with commercially relevant performance without giving any numbers is like saying you can do energy fusion without giving a triple product. Generally speaking: It is nice to see the ...
- Tue Mar 29, 2022 7:16 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 660
- Views: 104488
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Very interesting! A little reflection on the dosage estimations in the accident scenarios on page 119: They are given no time dimension. Why? Are they designating total accumulated dose relating to the released core content? I have seen a lot of maps of charted dosage from Fukushima and they are dep...
- Mon Mar 28, 2022 6:59 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: MIT claim they will build the SPARC
- Replies: 55
- Views: 47277
Re: MIT claim they will build the SPARC
Problems ahead: The main supplier of superconducting tape is based in Moscow.
https://www.axios.com/sanctions-threate ... 54e06.html
https://www.axios.com/sanctions-threate ... 54e06.html
- Thu Mar 24, 2022 8:14 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Small Tri Alpha news blurp
- Replies: 250
- Views: 256021
- Tue Mar 08, 2022 4:32 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: ZAP Energy News
- Replies: 133
- Views: 26208
Re: ZAP Energy News
Phys.org had this article on independent confirmation of the neutron yield today:
https://phys.org/news/2022-03-scientist ... pinch.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-03-scientist ... pinch.html
- Thu Jan 20, 2022 3:43 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Hydrostor - compressed air energy storage
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7654
Re: Hydrostor - compressed air energy storage
Agree. We end here.
- Wed Jan 19, 2022 5:37 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Hydrostor - compressed air energy storage
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7654
Re: Hydrostor - compressed air energy storage
There are ways to use CO2 to offset secondary emissions. Given that you have access to cheap energy it is a viable feedstock for synthesis. For example this project: https://www.chalmers.se/en/projects/Pages/Power-to-Food--concept-for-production-of-food-with-reduces.aspx https://www.tellerreport.com...
- Wed Jan 19, 2022 4:28 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Hydrostor - compressed air energy storage
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7654
Re: Hydrostor - compressed air energy storage
You shut the faucet before you wipe the floor. It is always better not to emit something than emitting it to catch it back and store it later. Carbon capture is no option until the last fossil fired power plant is closed. Will that have happened in 2050? Even if Helion and all the others succeed? It...
- Mon Jan 17, 2022 6:59 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Hydrostor - compressed air energy storage
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7654
Re: Hydrostor - compressed air energy storage
Fallback options in case of total fusion failure is really a subject for a different thread.
Sometime around new years eve 2031...
Sometime around new years eve 2031...
- Mon Jan 17, 2022 4:02 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Hydrostor - compressed air energy storage
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7654
Re: Hydrostor - compressed air energy storage
80% efficiency they say... I google 10-15 % for compressors. 100 kW electric power gives 10-15 kW compressed air power. Add the inefficiencies in converting it back to electricity. Not to say that the electricity comes from hugely wasteful wind and solar to begin with. Renewables should be considere...
- Fri Jan 14, 2022 5:07 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Hydrostor - compressed air energy storage
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7654
Re: Hydrostor - compressed air energy storage
I saw a recent article on a hypothetic closed fuel cycle for light water reactors. If I remember it right an advanced scheme built upon a breeding ladder från U238 to 240 to 241 with subsequent fuel processing. It could theoretically deliver a breeding ratio better than unity. Which should relieve a...
- Thu Jan 13, 2022 4:42 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Hydrostor - compressed air energy storage
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7654
Re: Hydrostor - compressed air energy storage
And even if there is no fusion yet for 50 years standard thermal fission will provide ample power for the time being. GE BWRX-300 is projected to cost 2,35 miljon dollars per MW installed when in serialized production. If that is realized it will always be cheaper to just build more power production...