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Environment & Energy

OKIsItJustMe

(21,016 posts) Wed May 22, 2024, 01:32 PM May 2024

How This Fusion Reactor Will Make Electricity by 2024

I’m betting on Helion Energy:

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How This Fusion Reactor Will Make Electricity by 2024 (Original Post) OKIsItJustMe May 2024 OP

I've been following Helion... they have a unique approach Mr.WeRP May 2024 #1

Yes, that's one of the reasons I think they're on the right track OKIsItJustMe May 2024 #2

Mr.WeRP

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1. I've been following Helion... they have a unique approach

Reply to OKIsItJustMe (Original post)

Wed May 22, 2024, 01:50 PM

May 2024

Instead of just capturing the thermal energy from the fusion reaction, they are capturing the electromagnetic release that occurs.

OKIsItJustMe

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2. Yes, that's one of the reasons I think they're on the right track

Reply to Mr.WeRP (Reply #1)

Wed May 22, 2024, 01:55 PM

May 2024

Using nuclear fusion to boil water… sheesh! It’s two technologies, from different centuries. Big, big plants, that need big cooling towers, and large bodies of water, which they heat up. Horribly inefficient.

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