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by baking
Sat Dec 13, 2025 3:56 am
Forum: News
Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Replies: 919
Views: 741553

Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024

I wonder if the issue is tuning the electronics, massive power in, timed, then massive power back out to the capacitors, **add in plasma dynamics**, fusion reaction timing. (we had 10,000 HP or 7.5 MW, variable speed inductive motors driven by power electronics, key a radio nearby & watch them shut...
by baking
Fri Dec 12, 2025 8:13 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Replies: 919
Views: 741553

Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024

Running out of 2025 days. I wonder what the issue is? "Q: It's just that gradual process of just doing more and more tests? A: And every day you add a system, you upgrade, you go to higher power, honestly, some days you break things." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oswGdRTyppg&t=586s You know, sci...
by baking
Tue Dec 02, 2025 4:45 am
Forum: News
Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Replies: 919
Views: 741553

Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024

This just popped up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_CFCyc2Shs&t=67s "David Kirtley: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and the Future of Energy | Lex Fridman Podcast #485" Two and a half hours. I haven't watched it yet. I've watched most of it, but there is only one passing reference to Polaris in ...
by baking
Fri Nov 28, 2025 3:32 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Replies: 919
Views: 741553

Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024

Supercapacitors have a higher energy density but a much lower operating voltage.
by baking
Mon Nov 24, 2025 6:12 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Grok encouraging me to post again.
Replies: 4
Views: 1381

Re: Grok encouraging me to post again.

Hello again guys. Grok and I went to work testiing it out in Colab. What we figured out was that we hadn't created a virtual polywell, what we had was a 2 stage compression inertial confinement scheme. We tested it out with D-T, got the core compressed to liquid hydrogen density, but couldn't get i...
by baking
Sat Nov 22, 2025 7:54 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Replies: 919
Views: 741553

Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024

Conjecture. OpenAI is not even a customer of Helion yet. They are obviously smarter than that. LOL, you were the one who made that statement. People here try to have serious conversations. If you want to be an edgelord, do that on Reddit, please. There are other ways to feed the Hype train without ...
by baking
Sat Nov 22, 2025 2:33 am
Forum: News
Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Replies: 919
Views: 741553

Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024

Skipjack wrote:
Sat Nov 22, 2025 1:30 am
baking wrote:
Fri Nov 21, 2025 11:50 pm
I don't know if you've been keeping up with the news, but it's to keep the OpenAI bubble from popping.
Conjecture. OpenAI is not even a customer of Helion yet.
They are obviously smarter than that.
by baking
Fri Nov 21, 2025 11:50 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Replies: 919
Views: 741553

Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024

everything they are doing is exactly what you would do if you were already sure the physics works ! Or if you wanted people to think that you were already sure the physics works. in this scenario, who are they trying to convince by building a factory? the public? who cares what they think? it's not...
by baking
Thu Nov 20, 2025 5:24 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Replies: 919
Views: 741553

Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024

TallDave wrote:
Thu Nov 20, 2025 2:31 pm
everything they are doing is exactly what you would do if you were already sure the physics works
Or if you wanted people to think that you were already sure the physics works.
by baking
Tue Nov 18, 2025 3:50 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Replies: 919
Views: 741553

Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024

You would be surprised how difficult it is to get capacitors and high power switches of certain specifications. There is a very good reason why Helion and Zap (and I believe others) have to manufacture caps and other equipment in-house. For certain electronic components related to fast and high pow...
by baking
Sun Nov 02, 2025 4:48 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Replies: 919
Views: 741553

Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024

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 le...
by baking
Wed Oct 22, 2025 2:27 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Avalanche Energy
Replies: 38
Views: 100152

Re: Avalanche Energy

New documentary on Avalanche Energy and their pivot over the Summer to a rotating plasma:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7Hfyz-JIDA
by baking
Tue Oct 21, 2025 1:13 am
Forum: News
Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
Replies: 919
Views: 741553

Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024

Helion's progress is starting to feel like the Dichotomy Paradox. Namely that, to reach a destination, you first need to reach a point halfway between, then halfway between that, then halfway between that, and so on, endlessly, so that you can never quite finish. What's the version where you announ...
by baking
Mon Jun 09, 2025 10:16 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Small Tri Alpha news blurp
Replies: 273
Views: 508814

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