Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024

[Munchausen]

New video:

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

It certainly looks like a serious operation.

[baking]

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, science.

[mvanwink5]

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 shutdown, & these power circuits were a commercial product, Helion builds their own power supplies for GW’s & microsecond pulses).

Crazy.

[baking]

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 shutdown, & these power circuits were a commercial product, Helion builds their own power supplies for GW’s & microsecond pulses).

Crazy.

Helion recently released a couple of videos describing full-size "bench-top" setups in which they connect a large capacitor bank to a coil to work out potential bugs in the system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1R51Z9-TM4&t=213s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyOL2S3N6Kw&t=456s

[mvanwink5]

Baker, TY for pulling the vids & links. Insight into the reality of Helion Fusion Generator build is helpful in calibrating time expectation. As a guess, the hard engineering is behind Helion by now, but we will just have to wait for the plasma optimization results.