Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024

[jrvz]

With He3 selling for $20,000/g and tritium for $30,000/g, I wonder if they can make a profit running on D-D without generating net electricity. At least until the markets for those gasses crash.

[Skipjack]

Yeah, that is something that I have been saying for a while. They will likely burn the He3 and sell the Tritium until the market is saturated. They can go pretty low with the price too (below 1000 USD/gram) before it becomes more profitable to let it decay and burn the resulting He3.

[KitemanSA]

With He3 selling for $20,000/g and tritium for $30,000/g, I wonder if they can make a profit running on D-D without generating net electricity. At least until the markets for those gasses crash.

The problem with saying that tritium is $30,000/g is that it may be because the production cost is very high, or the demand is very low; or both!

[Skipjack]

With He3 selling for $20,000/g and tritium for $30,000/g, I wonder if they can make a profit running on D-D without generating net electricity. At least until the markets for those gasses crash.

The problem with saying that tritium is $30,000/g is that it may be because the production cost is very high, or the demand is very low; or both!

Considering that the whole world is talking about a Tritium shortage, I think that lack of demand is currently not the issue. It is likely production and storage. Helion can go below 1000/g and still make more profit than they would from burning the He3 from its decay.