Talk-Polywell.org

Yes, they have been using NBI for a long time, but until very recently, not for startup.

Yeah, this is discouraging news indeed.

New Helion newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/helionenergy/a-strong-start-to-2025?e=fb0f77adc2 It has been an exciting start to 2025: Polaris began initial testing and is progressing toward full operation, we announced an oversubscribed $425 M Series F fundraise, and we’re continuing to scale our manufa...

https://x.com/dekirtley/status/1920501948463149368 David Kirtley on X: As we’re operating Polaris, we’re already seeing the largest-ever FRCs we (or we believe anyone else) have seen before! This is important for two primary reasons: 1. Larger FRCs mean more electricity: Greater volume allows us to ...

Chelan County PUD negotiates power, land agreement with nuclear fusion company Helion

https://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/loc ... f93c8.html

New Helion blog post:
https://x.com/Helion_Energy/status/1917609908222230892

Yeah, they are still working on it, but are also doing test- runs already at the same time, though not at full capacity.

Looking forward to see their results!

LPP fusion seems to have broken their previous record of 0.19 Joule yield with D-D. They still have a long way to go, but at least they are finally making progress again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBjYaPNcWBk

Interesting formation technique. That will certainly help making their machines smaller and cheaper to build. What is notable to me mostly how low the temperatures they are operating at still are today.

Still have been getting 503 timeouts. It seems to come and go. Right now it is working fine, but I saw that in the past. Worked, then stopped working.

Just for context, I am European and I am watching the developments in Europe with growing concern. A large percentage of European citizens say they would not go to a war against Russia. That is quite sad, really. In Germany, many even politicians in parliament openly take a pro- Russian stance. Seve...

I just realized why the world seems insane right now. Hear me out and please try to disprove me. I stumbled over a conversation from 1999 between Clinton and Yeltsin in which Yeltsin openly asked for Europe. Screenshot 2025-03-14 025941.png Shortly after, Putin came into power. In my opinion Russia ...

Looks like Helion's isotope separation facility is ready:

https://x.com/dekirtley/status/1902002622888018007

Polaris’ 50 MJ capacitor bank

https://x.com/Helion_Energy/status/1897346374758510752