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Our commitment to rapidly scaling and commercializing fusion technology guided our choice of fuel. We chose Deuterium and Helium-3, recognizing the engineering challenges that come with it, but confident in our team's ability to overcome them. Learn more on how we made this decision early in Helion’s development: https://lnkd.in/gzHGQNaQ
Tony Pan
1mo
Yes! IMHO only aneutronic fusion approaches will work commercially. Sure it is harder but it is the only one where the juice is worth the squeeze. Otherwise we are dealing with similar levels of brutal engineering & regulation around radioactive materials, leading to immense CapEx which has tanked nuclear fission plant economics today.
Thank you for the explanation of fuel choices and resulting eV benefits. Good luck Helion in finding the path to develop stronger magnets resulting in the 18.3 MeV increase over the other two fuels tested. You have the local community’s excitement and enthusiasm for your impressive science!
John Hanley
3w
There you go another near term benefit , making Tritium
Mario Ronci
1mo
Do you have articles where I can read more about the engineering of your technology. Like research papers? This is so fascinating.
Torbin Zixx
2w
I do enjoy when we talk about people potential to overcome these challenges
Short Term Optimization Specialist
4wMr. Kirtley, seriously, it is true that D-He3 reactions require temperatures at least 200 mil. °C to be energy efficient. However, from the practical point of view, even these temperatures are too low as they would require recirculation efficiency above 50 % and the triple product of plasma density, temperature and confinement time above 5 * 10^23 [keVs/m^3]. And I'm not even talking about the lack of He3 on Earth. Sentence in Your article "By focusing on D-He-3 fusion, we believe we are on a more efficient and cost-effective path to commercial fusion power" might sound great but it did not convince me about its legitimacy as it is not sufficient to just believe. I wish you good luck in Your exploration of limits of physical reality!