Helion 2015: Fusion plant in 3 years. Send us your money.
Helion 2023: Fusion plant in 4 years. Send us your money.
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Its not government money.
Its money from people with green eyeshades and engineers who are better than you.
As the greatest poet of the 21st century said.
There are things we know we know.
There are things we know we don’t know.
And there are things we don’t know we don’t know.
Your trade is all about the first of the three above. But that doesn’t get us where we want to go. The current us nuclear industry is in about the same position as the US space launch industry before elon musk came along.
Helion 2023: Fusion plant in 4 5 years. Send us your money.
“Its money from people with green eyeshades and engineers who are better than you.”
Sam Altman doesn’t say when, he says IF on Helion fusion! He is also partnered with a fission reactor startup.
Me: What is today?
ChatGPT: I cannot provide the current date.
“I believe these guys”
Helion Energy
“The Helion Fusion Engine will enable profitable fusion energy in 2019,” from NBF 7/18/2014.
“If our physics holds, we hope to reach that goal (net energy gain) in the next three years,” D. Kirtley, CEO of Helion, told The Wall Street Journal in 2014.
“Helion will demonstrate net energy gain within 24 months, and 50-MWe pilot plant by 2019,” from NBF 8/18/2015.
“Helion will attain net energy output within a couple of years and commercial power in 6 years,” Science News 1/27/2016.
“Helion plans to reach breakeven energy generation in less than three years, nearly ten times faster than ITER,” from NBF 10/1/2018.