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Just to note for distant future reference, if they do cool the mantle and stop plate tectonics, carbon-based life is going to die out… Much more dangerous than Global Warming, though might take a while. Just sayin’… Nah, the best way to kill this would be to call it "Advanced Geo-nuclear Energy Ext...

That core melt was going nowhere but a puddle in the bottom of the vessel. The sad irony of all this is unless you're a trained engineer or physicist, all you're going to understand is "reactor got too hot and broke, it's too dangerous, BLARGH!" Designing safe failure modes is not something many co...

Several so called "green NGOs" have already started to gear up against fusion. Greenpeace is one and I think Friends of the Earth is another, but I might be mixing them up with a different one (there are so many). I'm probably stating the obvious here, but these organizations are anti-human. Any te...

Dr. Whyte was on Jordan Peterson's podcast

https://youtu.be/Ftnt7KoRTIk?feature=shared

One other source of revenue for Helion not mentioned much is licensing. Once the technology is proven later this decade (something which I have little doubt will happen), the Mitsubishis and Westinghouses of the world, or those looking to supplant them, will be chomping at the bit to license the tec...

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.

From https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2024/02/s ... rives.html :

"Things break in space."

Truer words have not been said. Let's hope IVO gets another shot at this.

I wonder if the chamber could be evacuated between pulses, at least in part, electromagnetically? After all, there have been proposals to use FRC fusion for spacecraft propulsion, which would require expelling the plasma at a high speed. For example: Stephanie J. Thomas, Michael A. Paluszek, and Sa...

Transport by road may imply other difficulties than size. Ask SpaceX! They dimensioned their first stages to be transportable by road. That is why Falcon 9 is so long and thin. If Helion plans to produce and deliver 20 machines a day, they need to consider logistics. Also, is that really important ...

The alternative to stronger magnets are bigger machines. From what I understand, there is currently no noticeable limit for how big you can make them and they scale volumetrically. Larger machines are also easier to manage from a thermal perspective, assuming the effective surface area increases fa...

mvanwink5 wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 02, 2023 11:54 am

They just got their magnet wire so lots of work. I was surprised that they make their own magnet coils.

I'm not. With this kind of experimental engineering, you want to leave as little to chance as possible. Plus if something goes wrong, the turnaround time is much faster.

sd_matt wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 23, 2023 3:11 am

With that in mind would you guys post what your profession, education and experience are. I want to post this thread to Twitter to hammer home that point.

See my bio

Unless they've been operating right at the margin with no engineering factor built in, any healthy margin should absorb a 1% perturbation of the system easily enough. I mean, that is the whole point of this, to capture the energy of those charged particles and return it back to the system via magnet...

DeltaV wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 09, 2016 4:37 pm

http://www.thevirtualfoundry.com/

Looking at the list of "Customers who trust", it's all universities and government agencies. Perhaps this is telling...

Helion is collaborating with Nucor for a 500 MWe power plant for the steel sector. This is significant because there are numerous applications for this: steel, aluminum, chemicals, refining, all of which are heavy power users, typically with their own generation on site. Nice way to get around the ...