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Didn't this same company make the same "three years" claim in 2014? "Helion CEO David Kirtley says that his company can do it in three years."[1] Happy to see
by nharada 5y ago
Didn't this same company make the same "three years" claim in 2014? "Helion CEO David Kirtley says that his company can do it in three years."[1]
Happy to see investment in this space, but also tempering my expectations that having a commercial fusion reactor in three years is anything approaching realistic.
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2014/08/14/y-combinator-and-mithril-invest-in-helion-a-nuclear-fusion-startup/ https://techcrunch.com/2014/08/14/y-combinator-and-mithril-i...
- trhway 5y agostill looks like a speedup of 10x - the 30 years into 3 years.
- AareyBaba 5y agoThis video by Sabine Hossenfelder has tempered my expectations. How close is nuclear fusion power? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ4W1g-6JiY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ4W1g-6JiY
- ncmncm 5y agoShe is talking about Tokamak, particularly, which really is a dead end. But a minuscule fraction of the spend is giving plasma fluid dynamics physicists work experience, so it is not all totally wasted. Maybe some more of it is going to superconducting magnets, which ought to be useful for something someday.
- nabakin 5y agoA comment[0] on Reddit by someone close to the Helion CEO claims the media left out some important context. Helion said they could do it in three years with funding and they didn't get the funding they needed. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/fusion/comments/qna3dr/-/hjh36wx https://www.reddit.com/r/fusion/comments/qna3dr/-/hjh36wx