The Helion Company announces that it will be able to offer fusion electric power in 2024, when others hope to achieve it in the 2060s. That is a huge advance that is difficult to believe, although I suppose that those who claim it are no fools.
The world has been dreaming of having electric fusion energy for dozens of years, and until very recently it was a chimera that with new technological advances it seems that it is getting closer every day. Between 30 and 50 years.
What Helion proposes is a novelty and it does so by providing a new fusion technology. They achieve the reaction by mixing deuterium (isotope of hydrogen) and helium-3, instead of deuterium and tritium as ITER and others do.
Deuterium is very abundant on our planet, but helium-3 is very scarce and is a by-product of nuclear fusion, so the ashes obtained in this process are re-used as part of the fuel.
I am not an expert in this matter, and after having read the explanations published by the people of Helion it seems that they have their concepts well established. They have been working for more than 8 years and taking practical steps to meet their goal of generating electrical energy by fusion, but they still have to take the most difficult steps so that the reaction of the gases is maintained over time and a so desired ecological electrical energy is produced.
A video can be seen at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56To5qL3G0c
The company has received more than 2 billion financing from large investors and its goal of 2024 is just around the corner.
If they come close to fulfilling what they promise they will change the history of power generation, which is like saying the history of humanity.
I am more than interested in seeing what happens and I wish them the best, because if they are successful we will all win a lot. Hopefully they will.
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