New Way to Fusion

[GeoffF100]

A New Way to Achieve Nuclear Fusion: Helion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bDXXWQxK38

Awesome. Still a long way to go to a practical generator, but it looks promising.

[mc2fool]

And for those that don't want to sit through a 30 minute video...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helion_Energy
https://www.helionenergy.com/

The founders of Helion believe that fusion isn’t a fundamental physical problem, but an engineering problem that will be solved by building, testing, and iterating fusion systems and subsystems. By focusing on our true goal - clean, safe and limitless electricity - we can approach fusion from a new angle.

Our approach does three major things differently from other fusion approaches:

1) We utilize a pulsed non-ignition fusion system. This helps us overcome the hardest physics challenges, keeps our fusion device smaller than other approaches, and allows us to adjust the power output based on need.

2) Our system is built to directly recover electricity. Just like regenerative braking in an electric car, our system is built to recover all unused and new electromagnetic energy efficiently. Other fusion systems heat water to create steam to turn a turbine which loses a lot of energy in the process.

3) We use deuterium and helium-3 (D-³He) as fuel. Helium-3 is a cleaner, higher octane fuel. This helps keep our system small and efficient.

https://www.helionenergy.com/faq/

[GeoffF100]

Posted to YouTube 11 days ago, and said to be the first viewing of the system. The video is well worth watching, unless you are already an expert on this system. It is possible that this approach will never supply power to the grid, but it is certainly interesting. Real Engineering has lots of interesting videos.