Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024

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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 least be somewhat informed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6_VfR-CyuM

[baking]

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 least be somewhat informed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6_VfR-CyuM

You listened to all that nonsense, and that is what you had a problem with? First off, he has the scaling wrong. You double the size of the tokamak and you get eight times the volume, so eight times the fusion power, but only four times the area of the first wall, so making the tokamak bigger makes the heat problem worse, not better.

Also, he is in a lawsuit against OpenAI, so he's not going to give any credence to Helion, or even mention it.

But he and Sam Altman both believe in Dyson Spheres even though they are a literal physics joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLzEX1TPBFM