Helium’s Role for Semiconductor Production in the Digital Age
"Helium is one of the leading atmospheric gases used in the technology industry to manufacture fiber optic cables to run high-speed cable and Wi-Fi, improve storage capacities in computer hard drives, and to cool semiconductor chips used in smartphones, TVs, computers, tablets, and more. It is estimated that a single tank of helium gas can produce 10,000 hard drives, and according to Summit Source Funding, the revenue for semiconductor production in 2015 was $353 billion."
(SLIDE I think that the Boron/Hydrogen groups will get their first, but that is a layman's viewpoint. (Imagine fueling your reactor with something like a box of your mothers 20 mule team borax!))
First measurements of hydrogen-boron fusion in a magnetically confined fusion plasma
"Inventing fusion reactors that produce net energy is one thing, delivering it as a reliable, grid-ready source of electricity is another. By choosing to pursue hydrogen-boron as a fuel cycle, TAE has anticipated the true demands of commercial, daily use of fusion energy. Most fusion efforts around the world are focused on combining hydrogen isotopes deuterium-tritium (D-T) to use as fuel, and the donut-shaped tokamak machines commonly used in fusion concepts are limited to D-T fuel."
"Unlike those efforts, TAE's compact linear design uses an advanced accelerator beam-driven field-reversed configuration (FRC) that is versatile, and can accommodate all available fusion fuel cycles, including p-B11, D-T and deuterium-helium-3 (D-He3 or D3He). This benefit will uniquely enable TAE to license its technology on the way to its ultimate goal of connecting the first hydrogen-boron fusion power plant to the grid in the 2030s." We Will See.... Slide over
It is a strategic loss.