Article today in the Telegram:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/20 ... on-closer/
Light on technical details, but it's not a fringe publication, for what that's worth.
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- Mon Apr 29, 2024 1:57 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Stellarator Fusion Company: Type One Energy
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1591
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 3:43 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Company (Quaise Energy) plans to use fusion technology to drill for geothermal
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5732
Re: Company (Quaise Energy) plans to use fusion technology to drill for geothermal
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...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 5:22 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: General anti-fusion attitude
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2511
Re: General anti-fusion attitude
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...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 2:20 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: General anti-fusion attitude
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2511
Re: General anti-fusion attitude
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...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 2:31 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: MIT claim they will build the SPARC
- Replies: 55
- Views: 50237
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 3:29 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 677
- Views: 118059
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
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...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 3:04 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 677
- Views: 118059
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
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.
Re: EM Drive
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.
"Things break in space."
Truer words have not been said. Let's hope IVO gets another shot at this.
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 3:26 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 677
- Views: 118059
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
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...
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 2:15 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 677
- Views: 118059
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
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 ...
- Wed Nov 22, 2023 2:56 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 677
- Views: 118059
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
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...
- Thu Nov 02, 2023 1:11 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 677
- Views: 118059
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
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.
- Mon Oct 23, 2023 1:47 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: For the "Greens"
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3976
- Thu Oct 12, 2023 5:28 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 677
- Views: 118059
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
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...
- Mon Oct 02, 2023 1:11 pm
- Forum: Design
- Topic: Sintered metal objects from a standard FDM 3D printer
- Replies: 7
- Views: 21043
Re: Sintered metal objects from a standard FDM 3D printer
Looking at the list of "Customers who trust", it's all universities and government agencies. Perhaps this is telling...