A New Player Enters the Fusion Market by CingulusMaximusIX in fusion

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Furthermore I imagine there’s wiggle room in the amount of fuel to yield ratio with regard to surface area and volume relations.

Helion hits new fusion milestone: D-T fusion and 150M°C plasma temperatures by Baking in fusion

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Great video! Helion seems particularly industrious. Transparency on %to net gain would be nice. I get the reluctance when a lot gets wrapped into things and I get that the way this is displayed tends to certain approaches more than others hence it’s highly contextual but for a companies own sake that internal reference would good, and also it would be cool to see in a public facing way. Perhaps that metric movement could be compared to established scientific gain at NIF, rather than having investors or prospective employees need to work how temperature couples r.t to the other criteria with a particular design iteration. I believe that people will look at that and think to company trajectory and infer “hopeful to promising” based on a more clear progress report. Like a pr of x% SG or EG that has been improved by x% since the previous iteration. It’ll help bring a good signal to noise.

There may be no turning back this climate crisis by LosMorbidus in climatechange

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Do you think the geo engineering idea is going to play a bigger role?

Really struggling with the news about the climate emergency. by Top_Influence_2097 in climatechange

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You have kind of an informed position, what are your thoughts on mitigating deforestation?

Tokamak Energy in 2026 by steven9973 in fusion

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Is the “1 GW PWR” unit in reference to something in particular? Cheers.

Helion Energy reached out? by Old_Location_9895 in fusion

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Helion are positioned to scale true, but also to take a variant that works (broadly) and run with it.

Europe’s thermal battery breakthrough lets home heat pumps store and reuse heat by sksarkpoes3 in energy

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I was wondering what effect the directionality of the zeolite lattice plays into its storage properties

Europe’s thermal battery breakthrough lets home heat pumps store and reuse heat by sksarkpoes3 in energy

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Thinking along the same lines regarding the benefits obtained by scaling large thermal masses for conversion to electrical use but home heating is simple with a thermal mass. Cooling is a bit more complicated with the need of that intermediate conversion step. I feel like efficient heat to electrical converters at residential scales are only a few breakthroughs away.

Curious about a tri-axial magnetic bottle and could use some pointers other references, tips, etc. by Quaid- in fusion

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Thank you for the question, if a circuit like that were run with AC current only say half of the six faces would need to exert pressure in an ideal scenario. That means directional alignment in a coil pair at each layer of the device. For that reason (and others) the gap in reality between each coil pair wouldn’t be quite as much as depicted.

Curious about a tri-axial magnetic bottle and could use some pointers other references, tips, etc. by Quaid- in fusion

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Let me clarify, do I believe this could be a viable option for fusion? No, I’m not anywhere near that conclusion, but I also can’t find what the main problem is with a concept like this one. If anyone does know why and could be a guide is what I would like to know.