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I wish people would stop parroting Helion's obvious lie that they invented direct energy capture. These ideas are more than half a century old and have been tri
by light_hue_1 3y ago
I wish people would stop parroting Helion's obvious lie that they invented direct energy capture. These ideas are more than half a century old and have been tried before.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_energy_conversion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_energy_conversion
I would have a lot more faith in Helion if they were more upfront instead of playing stupid games. If they're willing to bend the truth on this, I can believe they're lying about all sorts of other things. I suspect Helion will eventually have it's own Theranos moment.
- DennisP 3y agoI've been following them for years and I've never seen them claim they invented DAC in general, just their particular device.
- KyleBerezin 3y agoThey have to convince senators to invest into their company lol. There is no way they are going to do that with a plasma physics textbook and a white paper on plasma compression ignition. I don't blame them for building hype, and glossing over the technical risks. It's just if you want an informed opinion you have to look past the marketing material. As devils advocate I will make the counterpoint, the idea of generating steam using heat through the walls of a tokamak is perhaps equally unproven. You need to have intense temperatures right next to supercooled magnets. That seems like a potential dealbreaker too, and everyone glosses over it in the same way.
- SkyMarshal 3y agoTo be fair I’ve never heard Helion explicitly claim they invented direct energy capture, that was my interpretation only, not anything from their PR. I’m not aware of it ever being used in a commercial power reactor design until now.