Helion Secures Land and Begins Building on the Site of World’s First Fusion Power Plant

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• Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  scientists and engineers still have not figured out a way to reliably generate more energy with fusion than it takes to create and sustain the reaction. Helion is still working on how to do that with its current prototype

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• cygnus@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I want to believe

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  • just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Same. Have they even done any demos?

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    • cygnus@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Per the Reuters article they already have a test reactor but, like everybody else, haven’t figured out how to produce more electricity than it consumes. I’m not sure why they’re jumping ahead to building a new facility when they don’t yet have a working product, but I hope it isn’t just to collect subsidies.

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    • MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      On their social networks they have published their working prototypes, in this case it is Polaris that emits a pink light

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• paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  alleged fusion power plant.

  :taps-forehead:

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  • Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The fusion is not the hard part, you can build a fusor for what, less than 1000 $?

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• mormund@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It is now two years old but this video sums up the challenges faced by Helion and how it is unlikely that they will get anywhere. m.youtube.com/watch?v=3vUPhsFoniw

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• RagingSnarkasm@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They’ll be finished in about 30 years.

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  • SrMono@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That sounds constant 😉

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• Red_October@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Well that’s certainly optimistic.

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• solrize@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There was another one of these a day or two ago, where besides making fusion energy, the reactor was going to convert mercury to gold. Competition must be getting stiff.

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