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There are fusion companies that are trying to make aneutronic fusion work. This form of fusion doesn't involve boiling water. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ane
by sien 4y ago
There are fusion companies that are trying to make aneutronic fusion work. This form of fusion doesn't involve boiling water.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion
Helion Energy is the best known.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helion_Energy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helion_Energy
HB11 is another one
https://hb11.energy/ https://hb11.energy/
- ncmncm 4y agoHelion might conceivably make something useful someday. The others will just spend investors' money until it dries up. Helion too, most likely.
- cbozeman 4y agoWell if I'm going to throw money at a pointless endeavour, I could think of quite a few worse than this.
- ncmncm 4y agoPointlessness is. If you want to maximize pointlessness, Energy Vault is right there. But defrauding investors doesn't seem like a great choice to enable. Maybe it would be better to do what might help avert global civilization collapse, thermonuclear war, and mass starvation? Investing in practical energy-storage tech factory build-out, solar farms co-sited on reservoirs and pastures, cost-effective hydrogen and ammonia synthesis tech are all overwhelmingly better uses, and can all be equally as cool.
- pfdietz 4y agoHB11 strikes me a nonstarter. Their proposed direct conversion mechanism is obvious nonsense, and the putative "avalanche" mechanism they want to use to make the nuclear reactions go has been savagely critiqued in the literature.