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Great answers sdg! For the Assuming things go as planned how many D-D burners would be needed to feed the D-He burners? I'm assuming the D-D burners would require more maintenance. Answer is somewhere between none and one. The initial machines will be producing the He3 they are burning. Unless somet...

Just a little detail: The "B Field recovery". Should it be understod as back EMF or back pressure from an expanding high beta plasmoid? If I understood your question correctly: I would probably frame it as back EMF. The expanding high-β plasmoid changes the magnetic flux linking the external coils ...

Good interview with Anthony Pancotti, one of the co- founders of Helion. Not much new in there for those of us who have been watching closely, but worth listening into!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-waSahWSNc&t=2s

Personally, I think that fusion will be much bigger than AI. If you think about the fundamental physics of everything humanity does, then energy is ultimate limiting factor. Even if we automated everything and all raw materials were free, the remaining cost of anything will be determined by the cost...

This is going to be a major geopolitical disruption as well. And that is where I am worried. If China-- even as a fast follower-- managed to take the global market here, it would give them geopolitical leverage. That is something the US cannot afford to let happen.

Anyone doubting that Helion is doing well in keeping their secrets. China is catching up and then it will be about the industrial base. This is why a lot of people in the US fusion industry are pushing so hard for building exactly that! I actually think (as much as it will annoy me and all of us) th...

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darn! Beat me to it

I have not heard anything about components of the machine having broken. They do have test labs though to test components and stresses before they do that in the actual machine.

sure, but again, that's at current prices... He3 prices have fluctuated by 100x in the recent past, and future production costs could end up being a thousand times lower than today's prices I think the problem is more the total amounts of He3 available in some extractable form or another. if they w...

I am very skeptical of this. He particularly lost me when he started going off into a new unified theory of gravity...

I am still very skeptical of their approach, but if they can make it, I would be very happy. I definitely give them the benefit of the doubt.

They have over a billion committed in funds if they meet their net electricity mile stone. So, I would say, yeah, net electric is important and they are working hard on achieving it while at the same time working on Orion.

guessing 20T would probably achieve something around 30KeV for D-He3, but again a lot depends on that proton production rate and the fine details of the PIC simulations They actually do NOT want too much proton heating. Generally, they do not want to get anywhere near ignition territory. I do not f...

There are almost zero D-T side reactions. The T is too hot and leaves the plasma quickly for the SOL and then the divertor. By the way, I'd appreciate some clarification of the part about "lower temps and higher temperatures". That was me being scatterbrained it should read: lower temps and higher d...