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by Munchausen
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...
by Munchausen
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...
by Munchausen
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...
by Munchausen
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 ...
by Munchausen
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...
by Munchausen
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
by Munchausen
Thu Mar 24, 2022 8:14 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Small Tri Alpha news blurp
Replies: 250
Views: 256021

Re: Small Tri Alpha news blurp

by Munchausen
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
by Munchausen
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.
by Munchausen
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...
by Munchausen
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...
by Munchausen
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... :D
by Munchausen
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...
by Munchausen
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...
by Munchausen
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...