U.S. to announce fusion energy ‘breakthrough’

[Shannow]

Achieving something for the first time is always hard...then it gets easier, more repeatable, and then very soon, everyone is doing it.
* synthesizing chemicals for example
* getting gas turbines to self sustaining took a long time, and many iterations, now you can go to a junkyard and get one made in a weekend...burning wood if you want. Look at the people trying to get self sustaining tuned length pulse jests.

these are big milestones, 1.5 time the energy input for a brief period...it will get easier...and it WILL get "mass" produced.

 

[SubieRubyRoo]

The reality is way less rosy than the press release:

My take: fusion "breakthrough" a total dud

hotair.com

 

[ArrestMeRedZ]

Just saw a short clip from Peter Zeihan on this subject. Can't link it, but he is on YouTube. Looks like we've gone from 10 years out for commercial fusion reactors to the end of the century with this tech, if it pans out.

 

[MolaKule]

I am still waiting for the hydrogen revolution.

Fusion Power

Fusion Power Power Management Mobility Beam TAE Life Sciences A forever solution for clean, carbon-free energy. Nature’s preferred source. Fusion is the same process that powers the sun and stars. It is environmentally friendly, safe, and capable of sustaining the planet for thousands of years...

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With all of these groups working on Fusion, we should have had fusion energy yesterday:

Organizations

These organizations, (Companies, Research Organizations, Funders, NGOs, and Service Providers) are involved in the development of fusion energy.

www.fusionenergybase.com

 

[MolaKule]

The reality is way less rosy than the press release:

My take: fusion "breakthrough" a total dud

hotair.com

"“The net energy gain is with respect to the energy in the light that was shined on the target, not with respect to the energy that went into making that light,” says University of Rochester physicist Riccardo Betti, who was also not involved with the research. “Now it’s up to the scientists and engineers to see if we can turn these physics principles into useful energy.”

I tend to agree. The major current technical issue seems to be plasma stability and the ability and need to keep the plasma ignited.

Heat transfer to a useful medium for driving turbines is another technical issue. Currently, when you transfer heat from the plasma, you introduce plasma instabilities.

 

[MolaKule]

It appears Helion

Helion | Our technology

Helion is the first private company to reach 100 M°C plasma temperatures, a key milestone for generating electricity from fusion. Here's how.

www.helionenergy.com

and TAE Technologies are using similar technologies:

TAE Technologies

TAE Technologies: Foothill Ranch, California, USA, TAE Technologies originally grew out of the physics department at the University of California, Irvine. TAE was founded in 1998 by George Sealy, Harry Hamlin, and Andrew Conrad in Foothill Ranch, California. TAE's fusion concept is a...

www.fusionenergybase.com

 

[Pablo]

Helion right down the I5 from us, so if they cause a space/time riff, I'll let you know yesterday.

 

[Yah-Tah-Hey]

Just four numbers, 1989. Who can forget? Finally something for nothing.

 

[buster]

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[MolaKule]

Helion right down the I5 from us, so if they cause a space/time riff, I'll let you know yesterday.

Yes, please keep us informed as to what year or Epoch you are in after the experiment.

If you see dinosaurs, let us know so we can come and bag them suckers! I don't know of any bag limits.

 

[OVERKILL]

Yes, please keep us informed as to what year or Epoch you are in after the experiment.

If you see dinosaurs, let us know so we can come and bag them suckers! I don't know of any bag limits.

If he sees dinosaurs it may be another issue (and yes, somebody doesn't know how to spell enclosed, lol):

 

[JimPghPA]

Lockheed Martin says they will be able to say they had commercially available power plants powered by hydrogen Fusion available 2 years ago, as soon as their time machine project is successful.

 

[MolaKule]

Dr. Hossenfelder explains the real numbers behind this latest experiment, the JWT, etc.