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That also makes him biased because fusion would compete with his business. I can understand for space because of simplicity, but time is running out fast for arguments that it makes sense on Earth, Moon, or Mars (conversion efficiency is the key, not a thermal cycle with huge heat rejection %). Onc...

baking, Thank you for that YT link, it was a hilarious deconstruction of ‘Dyson Spheres’ & further, I had never heard that Dyson intended it to be a joke (even to me it was an absurd idea, could not understand why Dyson would write about it, but now it makes sense). Because ‘Dyson Spheres’ were absu...

EM made the point that Tokamak can ‘work’ by simple scaling, not wrong, but the issue is Tokamak practicality, & EM points it out by citing it has a wall challenge. My point is that the wall problem is Tokamak’s problem not Fusion’s problem. It's a simple logic error. Yes, it's not the only logic er...

I can’t understand why Elon Musk talks about Tokamak first wall heat problem as representative of Fusion (latest pod cast, at the end, around 1hr25min), when Helion Energy converts plasma power via magnetic dynamics. If someone is going to speak on a subject as important as Fusion for energy, at lea...

As a WAG, EM Drive is being turned off & on to get effect data, so altitude won’t be evident in the beginning. Anyone with inside contacts to know?

SJ wrote,

At this point, they are ~10 months behind their original schedule which called for net electricity in 2024. It is quite a significant scope for an engineering project

I hope Helion is not using DEI to staff their project.

No more operation of Polaris in ‘Reaver Mode’.

Helion’s newsletter shows Helion is focused on reducing time & cost to build commercial fusion plants. Yes, Helion needs to get more data from Polaris, but the data they need does not appear to significantly change the design parameters for the plant they are building for the Microsoft power plant c...

Nope! They already have the He3 for the D-He3 campaign. Wow! Eliminates doubters. 2025 fingers crossed, tsunami approaching fast. :D Cost of He3 is peanuts compared to the other costs they are incurring. Looks like big efforts to improve Fusion Electric Plant production costs, speed of production, ...

Nope! They already have the He3 for the D-He3 campaign.

Wow! Eliminates doubters. 2025 fingers crossed, tsunami approaching fast.

At this time I would not be surprised if D-D is run & extrapolation is used to claim net electric once He3 is available.

SJ, TY for your thoughts. 5 months left in 2025, laying foundation for the commercial fusion plant for Microsoft, more weekend pizza looks like is in the tarot cards.

I saw the new machine for building HV capacitors mentioned on X that should speed up manufacturing the HV capacitors.

"Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024"
Updated target for net electric?

Neutral Beam Injection is not cheap. It does not look like they are adding large neutral beam injectors for start up based on the article diagram comparing the two machines (Norm vs Norman), plus the NBI start up use is only for 10ms. Looks like a significant improvement. (For continuous operation ...

The paper basically says TAE has simplified & significantly lowered the cost of their machine by changing the way they create the FRC plasma. Looking at the diagram of the two machine configurations (new vs old) it would appear the length of the new NBI machine (machine that uses neutral beam inject...