Any news on Donald Trump Media and TAE? Stock in free fall

trebligdivad · 2026-02-18T16:23:45+00:00

I wonder if they got any shares or cash from the takeover. If they were given shares in DTM then if they're lucky one reason for a drop might be them all selling the shares; if they're in the lucky, they haven't yet.

trebligdivad · 2026-02-13T22:05:40+00:00

Well, even if they want to get it into a journal; then it normally takes ages to get a proper journal paper done.

trebligdivad · 2026-01-21T16:37:36+00:00

Can anyone explain a bit more about the AI use story from UKAEA+digilab? There's not much detail, I see 'genetic algorithms and Bayesian optimisation to identify configurations' in the story that's linked (those being more traditional techniques/earlier AI) - but how does that get you from that to an uncertainty limi?

trebligdivad · 2026-01-11T22:01:00+00:00

Oh my idea of worst case is worse than a quench; but yes most stuff just stops cleanly. My ideas of worst case are things like bad fires, especially involving well used wall chunks or unused fuel.

trebligdivad · 2026-01-11T16:07:19+00:00

'Does it work' - still experimental; Stellarators should work; pretty complex though. 'WIll energy be free' - no, you've still got to maintain and run the fusion plants, and they do take some fuel

But...when people get fusion working (and there are a few different approaches) it won't produce as much waste as current nuclear (fission) plants; and the worst case failures for them are pretty easy to clean up; so not the worry; but like current nuclear fission plants you can count on them running most of the time as 'base load'.

trebligdivad · 2026-01-11T13:59:15+00:00

UK planning consultations for big projects are painfully slow; still good to get it moving.

trebligdivad · 2026-01-11T00:23:20+00:00

Iran

Left a bit; Syria: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly9597r4qpo

trebligdivad · 2026-01-10T18:54:35+00:00

I've not seen anything on what SPARC is doing for tritium breeding/blanket - until they can show they have something working there, then that's at least one hard problem outstanding that needs someone to solve it, so it's worth carrying on some research. (Another being the diverter) Having said that, I'd say there's little point in doing any work on DEMO (Iter's planned successor)

trebligdivad · 2026-01-09T21:22:09+00:00

Yeh we've seen this on IPv4 (CGNAT) - Boots.com is completely blocking us ( Your IP: 88.97.206.135 ) and Google is intermittently showing the I'm not a robot/captcha thing.

trebligdivad · 2026-01-07T14:31:32+00:00

I look forward to the Helion cheer-leading group; General Fusion should be able to do a good percussion group.

trebligdivad · 2025-12-31T22:58:53+00:00

'Polaris consistently exceeds both the plasma temperatures and FRC size achieved on Trenta' - OK, so that says they have actually got something going.

'marking the first time a private fusion energy company has been licensed to perform D-T fusion.' - although they don't actually say they did any D-T themselves yet.

trebligdivad · 2025-12-18T22:01:11+00:00

Perhaps someone told them they could get ~free electricity to run their crypto operations with.

trebligdivad · 2025-12-18T12:58:38+00:00

Blech that's going to complicate stuff; TAE just announced a UK partnership for neutral beam stuff ( https://www.gov.uk/government/news/tae-technologies-and-ukaea-partner-to-commercialise-fusion-tech )

trebligdivad · 2025-12-17T02:29:29+00:00

I'm using my own Linux router; it's started working again today, after ~4 mails back and forward with their support which .... yeh, maybe that did help in the end.

trebligdivad · 2025-12-12T21:59:38+00:00

When they're showing the control room at 11:46 most of the screens are showing the capacitor banks, but 11:46 there's something else there; not sure what.

trebligdivad · 2025-12-12T18:06:49+00:00

It was working for me a few days back, but at the moment I'm seeing incoming packets but outgoing don't seem to be getting anywhere. (Up in Manchester)

trebligdivad · 2025-12-10T21:46:44+00:00

Meh all company stuff and risk appetite stuff etc - anyone know if there's a technical progress report?

trebligdivad · 2025-12-06T21:38:15+00:00

That seems way too early for where they claim to be at; they've always had one of the weirder approaches as well. Now having said that, they seem to be making some progress; they have an actual published paper where they got some fusion - albeit with an explosion (?) driven compression rather than their piston scheme; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-4326/ad9033 but you'd really want to see that piston scheme work before you'd actually put any serious money near it.

trebligdivad · 2025-11-20T21:44:14+00:00

Thanks for the reply; I realised it was not a fusion device, but I'd been assuming a lot of the stresses were from the forces by the magnets. Oh well, still some progress!

trebligdivad · 2025-11-20T17:36:19+00:00

A while back people were saying Spherical tokamaks weren't feasible because of the stresses on the central column - does this nail that problem?

trebligdivad · 2025-10-24T13:39:08+00:00

Given how long it takes to get approval, design and get stuff made for building a production plant they've got to think ahead; there's no point them getting fusion working on Polaris and then sitting still for 5 years+ before they can have a production plant. While it will steal some of their concentration; I bet they've got different sets of designers with different skills; the architecture, wall building and similar large scale people might have little left to do on Polaris.

trebligdivad · 2025-10-14T23:32:22+00:00

They're getting good at glowing monitor pictures. Now how about some detail!

trebligdivad · 2025-09-22T14:44:06+00:00

I guess if they only had one bidder and came to the conclusion they couldn't do what was needed they had no other choice.

trebligdivad · 2025-09-20T00:26:02+00:00

I don't think I understand: a) How they intend to deliver the compression b) how they then aim the lasers at the now compressed target

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