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Plus their design is very compact and it might make for an amazing space propulsion system. SJ, what method of propulsion? At this point their conversion approach is thermal. It's pretty straightforward, just let part of the fusion plasma out to act as propulsion. There was a paper from Shumlak on ...

That was not possible until just few years ago due to prohibitive cost of sending anything into orbit.
The actual cheap access to space and the continuous cost reduction will soon make it less expensive to directly test in outer space than to test in a designed facility.

Worth keeping an eye on these guys.
Their feedthrough technology is highly innovative and they might be an unexpected surprise.

And it will be quite a good shake up to the fossilized scientific institutions.
I am really curious to see how this will end.

They do not seem to be looking for any external funding for now, which means that they are quite convinced of their results.

The just released a new presentation video on Youtube. Nothing new, but they seems to be pretty confident of their experimental results. It will be interesting to see what will happen in June. We will either learn how to improve Earth experimental setup to remove false positives or we will witness t...

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Tue Apr 18, 2023 7:30 pm

That is very humanlike. We do that too.

Indeed. You made a good point.

I am not really sure why he had the need to come out with such a video. It seems just a collection of hypothesis and half right/half wrong assumptions stick together to fill 30 mins of a video. But what really makes me really wonder is that he has been part of this board since the start (mattman) an...

It's been many years since last post. Most of the folks at the nsf forum are convinced this will not work. However the fact that this will be launched aboard the SpaceX Transporter 8 mission says a lot. Launch is set for NET June 10 2023. I give them full respect for believing on the idea and putti...

Nick Hawker, First Light Fusion founder and CEO, has a blog ( https://nickhawker.com/ ). The whole blog is written to be on favor of their solution skipping most of the latest advancement in research (as example the latest pB11 cross-section review that we discussed few weeks ago here ). That said,...

It seems like they want to capitalize on the recent Japanese-German breakthrough in Stellarator design that we discussed a month ago in another thread.

Warning, this is going to be a long post not related to Fusion but to AI and GPT4 in general. I spent the last couple of days testing Chat GPT-4 on different levels of complex technical and ethical queries and I thought it was interesting to summarize my experience with it. First Part: I started wi...

It seems like Mike McCulloch is involved with this company.
He is the ideator of "Quantized inertia" that was discussed in another thread few years ago.

Well, 45 mN/W is not huge, is totally insane if true. It's 3 orders of magnitude better than an ion thruster and without fuel. I mean, there is no word to describe the changes this will bring IF true. I am quite skeptical due to lack of any real information and the excessive use of the word "quantum...

In truth I have the impression that they lost the experimental drive that they had in the start few years ago.
Maybe they need to bring into the team some new minds with fresher ideas and someone solely focused on solving all those smaller issues that are bogging them down.....