It's the same general design (mirror device), but uses D-T fusion instead of He-3+D. This has some benefits like a much higher rate of fusion at a lower pressure and temperature and avoids having to breed He-3 in a separate reaction. Unfortunately, it requires tritium and shoots out a high energy neutron which leads to more material degradation. We will see which one wins out, but since this design focuses on heat and Helion creates electricity directly they may be supplementary companies rather than competitors.
Helion has a similar looking system, but it is not the same. Helion is using an approach called the Field Reversed Configuration (FRC), combined with significant magnetic field energy recovery (the details of which are still hidden from the public eye). Realta is using an axisymmetric simple mirror and eventually a tandem mirror, which lends itself much better to a steady state reactor as opposed to the pulsed reactor that Helion is going for. Both are viable design choices and worth further study, especially since they are relatively low cost compared to more popular designs like the Tokamak
@@matthewnyberg737 This design is good for a fission-suppressed fusion hybrid. Fission-suppressed fusion hybrid is a proposed power source that combines nuclear fusion and fission processes. The idea is to use high-energy neutrons from a fusion reactor to trigger fission in non-fissile fuels, such as uranium-238 or thorium-232. The neutrons capture in the blanket convert the "fertile" material into fissile isotopes, which are then used as fuel in conventional nuclear reactors. Q2 to Q8 would fly,
This is a great design for Fission Suppressed Fusion Hybrid that produces neutrons for Uranium Fissionable material for fission reactors. This would make an unlimited amount neutrons via U238 or TH232. Reference "Ralph Moir Fission Suppressed Fusion Hybrid" .
Fusion is not the be all and end all of power generation as we have all just learnt. The breakthrough was achieved by a fusion reaction not a power plant . And the power generated by Livermore was a miniscule net gain . Fusion power plants yielding unlimited clean power have been a pipe dream and overhyped for years . With the recent Livermore success doubling down on the long long path to a working fusion power plant .
@@phillipshorter7751 The fuel fusion reactors use is not easy to get and a tiny net gain of power was made recently by a fusion reaction . I understand the theories completely but l still think the race for a viable fusion power plant is a scam with billions wasted . Especially considering the power plant l have just designed .
As I understand it, tritium is a bit of an obstacle since it isn't in abundance. I feel pretty confident the obstacles to fusion will be overcome. Just a question of time. According to some, the world is close to being out of time. If we're that close, will anything we do save us? Maybe, maybe not. We have to try though. I don't believe we're that close. We may have to learn to adapt. We also need to adapt in such a way so as not to cause undue human suffering. I think climate change has been politicized. When politics gets into things, it seems to always mess things up. We know we must do something, but the free market is the most likely way to get things done for energy production.Competition is healthy. Politics and government of course are needed, but they should be limited.
There's lots of ways to breed tritium once you get a neutron flux going from fusion or fission reaction. You can even put some beryllium in there somewhere to make even more neutrons, though I don't know if Be gets consumed or just emits extra neutrons. Those neutrons cotta come from somewhere... But breeding this shouldn't be too hard.
Yup and tritium is about 30-50k a gram. Spendy stuff. It is made with fission reactors, but the device could make the isotope using a neutron multiplier. This alone should allow for a DARPA grant since they need the stuff for maintaining the nuclear weapons stockpile. The extra neutrons could be used for making other useful radioactive isotopes (medical or industrial) as well which would offset the costs. They do need a major collaborative effort in order to build this device though. After researching it they have a few serious issues, one is continuous ignition, another is dealing with the neutrons and converting extreme temperatures and radiation to usable power. Would recommend using it as a high flux isotope reactor rather then power first. 🤓
@@kayakMike1000 yup ironically, the best material for the reaction zone area would be beryllium oxide because of a combination of high thermal conduction, being electrically an insulator, and refractory caractoristics. Coat the inside with streight Be. Be splits into helium and two neutrons or lithium, helium3 and one neutron. 🤓
Seems like a marketing pitch, but the reactor is a pulse mode plasma compression device that uses flux compression to heat and impact the plasma bunches. I could make it much more practical by making the plasma rotate in counter rotating vortices as it collides. This would be done using a triphase microwave field at each end to cause the plasma to rotate like a motor armature. Then the plasma will gain a lot more of the energy as it goes through the magnetic field array. The benifit is the fusion reaction itself should do the job of ionization and heating allowing the device to operate indefinitely using only the microwave field to induce rotation and a static magnetic field for stabilization after the initial starting pulse. It would need an energy mode converter to both protect the reaction zone from overheating and transform the raw nuclear energy to heat and electricity. I would use BeO for this component. The neutron generation alone could breed fuel for the device with a beryllium based neutron generator (win-win since BeO is very refractory as well). It also has the ability to generate specialty isotopes with the neutrons that are useful. This would substantially offset the cost of operation. It may be possible to use alternate fuels as well, simply by scaling up the device starting with D-T and changing over to D2 or BH fuels or a mix like Boron deuteride monohydride, BD2H. 😁🤓
Interesting - industrial heat does seem like a low hanging fruit, but a big one. The reactor blanket design guy is there because you will have to produce your own tritium, right? What temperatures do you plan to produce? If those are high enough, then steel production can also be targeted.
Blankets are necessary for tritium production, but also capture the energy coming out of the fusion reaction by letting the 14.1MeV neutron (or 2.5 for D-D fusion) collide with it. It depends on the blanket design and secondary coolant, but due to materials constraints they are probably not getting to 1400C. Lead, Lead Lithium, or a molten salt are the most practical liquid coolants and can technically get up to >1500C before boiling/dissociating, but would eat through any structural material that also works for a fusion environment.
So, a PP presentation with a lot of handwavium. Nothing said about how their machine is supposed to work and a total dismissal of any developmental problems to the point of "estimating" cost of production. I am sure that a company started by four college profs and an MBA to invent something hundreds of scientists the world over has yet failed to accomplish will just be duck soup and all "investors" will be rich. Right!
This is because the university elites do not know what they are doing! These ""students"" and workers are scamming the government for their comfy salaries, living fat off the american taxpayer (ie you and me). We should be recylcing the copper and metals to refund the small business owner and balance the budget!
On the surface they do look similar as they are both linear devices based on the magnetic mirror concept, however Helion is going for a Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) with an emphasis on pulsed power generation and significant energy recovery, while Realta is making a high field simple mirror, and later a tandem mirror, which will be operated in steady state. The differences between the approaches are significant, but hard to see without going into the technical details
"Why should we care?" is a stupid question: We all know about climate change. I want to know how long your mirror was able to hold its plasma. Have you achieved Q > 1 or a burning plasma?
and you know that the Philippines has a hugh supply of deuterium off the coast of the country that the present government knows about and has determined to be of value in the trillions of dollars
Villa violates newton second law of thermodynamics. There’s no free lunch it’s expensive to build an experiment gives this guy a job for a while with his cronies. Are you gonna put hundreds of millions of dollars into it or you’re gonna get $.50 worth of electricity. You do the math that’s a dramatic explanation but there’s no free lunch left mom‘s buying it. Where do they get off. Are you green new deal guy. That doesn’t work eitherAnd you have to take power off the grid to run your experiments little on a working model. May work in an absolute vacuum for milliseconds but you’re not gonna be able to harness the power from it friction losses to great there’s no free lunch bro
WHAM fusor. Now u tell me that youre fusing Helium I tell u Ill be grateful if u want me to but one more dollar the piggybank will break breeder fission is good enough with solar and ground source heat pumps for Me...that and the EVs...
Climate change ISN'T the biggest problem facing all of us today. I realize that straw man serves your agenda, but keep in mind there is a large % of educated people that disagree not with the occurance of climate change (if you dispute we're educated, you might just be touching on a bigger problem we actually have in this country at least), only the degree of its impact over time, and the notion that at this point practical Fusion will have any impact on it (which is decades away).
Helion has beat you to the finish line on getting a system built. I would rather you team up with them.
It's the same general design (mirror device), but uses D-T fusion instead of He-3+D. This has some benefits like a much higher rate of fusion at a lower pressure and temperature and avoids having to breed He-3 in a separate reaction. Unfortunately, it requires tritium and shoots out a high energy neutron which leads to more material degradation. We will see which one wins out, but since this design focuses on heat and Helion creates electricity directly they may be supplementary companies rather than competitors.
Helion has a similar looking system, but it is not the same. Helion is using an approach called the Field Reversed Configuration (FRC), combined with significant magnetic field energy recovery (the details of which are still hidden from the public eye). Realta is using an axisymmetric simple mirror and eventually a tandem mirror, which lends itself much better to a steady state reactor as opposed to the pulsed reactor that Helion is going for. Both are viable design choices and worth further study, especially since they are relatively low cost compared to more popular designs like the Tokamak
@@matthewnyberg737 This design is good for a fission-suppressed fusion hybrid. Fission-suppressed fusion hybrid is a proposed power source that combines nuclear fusion and fission processes. The idea is to use high-energy neutrons from a fusion reactor to trigger fission in non-fissile fuels, such as uranium-238 or thorium-232. The neutrons capture in the blanket convert the "fertile" material into fissile isotopes, which are then used as fuel in conventional nuclear reactors. Q2 to Q8 would fly,
This is a great design for Fission Suppressed Fusion Hybrid that produces neutrons for Uranium Fissionable material for fission reactors. This would make an unlimited amount neutrons via U238 or TH232. Reference "Ralph Moir Fission Suppressed Fusion Hybrid" .
Fusion is not the be all and end all of power generation as we have all just learnt.
The breakthrough was achieved by a fusion reaction not a power plant .
And the power generated by Livermore was a miniscule net gain .
Fusion power plants yielding unlimited clean power have been a pipe dream and overhyped for years .
With the recent Livermore success doubling down on the long long path to a working fusion power plant .
I mean, it really could be. That's sort of why people obsess over it so much.
@@phillipshorter7751
The fuel fusion reactors use is not easy to get and a tiny net gain of power was made recently by a fusion reaction .
I understand the theories completely but l still think the race for a viable fusion power plant is a scam with billions wasted .
Especially considering the power plant l have just designed .
I have a great idea for this but I'd have to be there to show them.
Good luck !
As I understand it, tritium is a bit of an obstacle since it isn't in abundance. I feel pretty confident the obstacles to fusion will be overcome. Just a question of time. According to some, the world is close to being out of time. If we're that close, will anything we do save us? Maybe, maybe not. We have to try though. I don't believe we're that close. We may have to learn to adapt. We also need to adapt in such a way so as not to cause undue human suffering. I think climate change has been politicized. When politics gets into things, it seems to always mess things up. We know we must do something, but the free market is the most likely way to get things done for energy production.Competition is healthy. Politics and government of course are needed, but they should be limited.
There's lots of ways to breed tritium once you get a neutron flux going from fusion or fission reaction. You can even put some beryllium in there somewhere to make even more neutrons, though I don't know if Be gets consumed or just emits extra neutrons. Those neutrons cotta come from somewhere... But breeding this shouldn't be too hard.
Yup and tritium is about 30-50k a gram. Spendy stuff. It is made with fission reactors, but the device could make the isotope using a neutron multiplier. This alone should allow for a DARPA grant since they need the stuff for maintaining the nuclear weapons stockpile. The extra neutrons could be used for making other useful radioactive isotopes (medical or industrial) as well which would offset the costs. They do need a major collaborative effort in order to build this device though. After researching it they have a few serious issues, one is continuous ignition, another is dealing with the neutrons and converting extreme temperatures and radiation to usable power. Would recommend using it as a high flux isotope reactor rather then power first. 🤓
@@kayakMike1000 yup ironically, the best material for the reaction zone area would be beryllium oxide because of a combination of high thermal conduction, being electrically an insulator, and refractory caractoristics. Coat the inside with streight Be. Be splits into helium and two neutrons or lithium, helium3 and one neutron. 🤓
Seems like a marketing pitch, but the reactor is a pulse mode plasma compression device that uses flux compression to heat and impact the plasma bunches. I could make it much more practical by making the plasma rotate in counter rotating vortices as it collides. This would be done using a triphase microwave field at each end to cause the plasma to rotate like a motor armature. Then the plasma will gain a lot more of the energy as it goes through the magnetic field array. The benifit is the fusion reaction itself should do the job of ionization and heating allowing the device to operate indefinitely using only the microwave field to induce rotation and a static magnetic field for stabilization after the initial starting pulse. It would need an energy mode converter to both protect the reaction zone from overheating and transform the raw nuclear energy to heat and electricity. I would use BeO for this component. The neutron generation alone could breed fuel for the device with a beryllium based neutron generator (win-win since BeO is very refractory as well). It also has the ability to generate specialty isotopes with the neutrons that are useful. This would substantially offset the cost of operation. It may be possible to use alternate fuels as well, simply by scaling up the device starting with D-T and changing over to D2 or BH fuels or a mix like Boron deuteride monohydride, BD2H. 😁🤓
You were correct in your first sentence. The remainder was bullshit. ;-)
Disappointed they are not going with a classic Tokapole design.
Interesting - industrial heat does seem like a low hanging fruit, but a big one.
The reactor blanket design guy is there because you will have to produce your own tritium, right?
What temperatures do you plan to produce? If those are high enough, then steel production can also be targeted.
Blankets are necessary for tritium production, but also capture the energy coming out of the fusion reaction by letting the 14.1MeV neutron (or 2.5 for D-D fusion) collide with it. It depends on the blanket design and secondary coolant, but due to materials constraints they are probably not getting to 1400C. Lead, Lead Lithium, or a molten salt are the most practical liquid coolants and can technically get up to >1500C before boiling/dissociating, but would eat through any structural material that also works for a fusion environment.
@@matthewnyberg737 FLIBE but keep Lithium 6 & 7 - Breed U233 from Thorium as well as Tritium.
So, a PP presentation with a lot of handwavium. Nothing said about how their machine is supposed to work and a total dismissal of any developmental problems to the point of "estimating" cost of production. I am sure that a company started by four college profs and an MBA to invent something hundreds of scientists the world over has yet failed to accomplish will just be duck soup and all "investors" will be rich. Right!
This is because the university elites do not know what they are doing! These ""students"" and workers are scamming the government for their comfy salaries, living fat off the american taxpayer (ie you and me). We should be recylcing the copper and metals to refund the small business owner and balance the budget!
Isn't this the same system Helion has already built?
On the surface they do look similar as they are both linear devices based on the magnetic mirror concept, however Helion is going for a Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) with an emphasis on pulsed power generation and significant energy recovery, while Realta is making a high field simple mirror, and later a tandem mirror, which will be operated in steady state. The differences between the approaches are significant, but hard to see without going into the technical details
Yes, this is the same bullshit that other "ventures" are proposing. ;-)
@@pzboy47 no sir yu oare wrong about helion who will. be beating the wisconsin h asymmetric mirror
How does one invest?
My guy they only have cgi at this point.
Buy twizlers
This is a direct rip-off. Helion is now up to version 7. You’ve built nothing.
@@fabmanly1070 This is very different technology than Helion is attempting. Not a rip-off of Helion's approach.
Brother it’s a scam lol 😂
"Why should we care?" is a stupid question: We all know about climate change. I want to know how long your mirror was able to hold its plasma. Have you achieved Q > 1 or a burning plasma?
Everybody who thinks that this is real should sell their homes and put all their money into this "venture". What could go wrong? :-)
and you know that the Philippines has a hugh supply of deuterium off the coast of the country that the present government knows about and has determined to be of value in the trillions of dollars
Villa violates newton second law of thermodynamics. There’s no free lunch it’s expensive to build an experiment gives this guy a job for a while with his cronies. Are you gonna put hundreds of millions of dollars into it or you’re gonna get $.50 worth of electricity. You do the math that’s a dramatic explanation but there’s no free lunch left mom‘s buying it. Where do they get off. Are you green new deal guy. That doesn’t work eitherAnd you have to take power off the grid to run your experiments little on a working model. May work in an absolute vacuum for milliseconds but you’re not gonna be able to harness the power from it friction losses to great there’s no free lunch bro
Power is from capacitors and you don't need much power to charge them.
You can't be a liberal and a scientist at the same time.
Let me feed you. ;-)
so tru!
WHAM fusor. Now u tell me that youre fusing Helium I tell u Ill be grateful if u want me to but one more dollar the piggybank will break breeder fission is good enough with solar and ground source heat pumps for Me...that and the EVs...
Climate change ISN'T the biggest problem facing all of us today. I realize that straw man serves your agenda, but keep in mind there is a large % of educated people that disagree not with the occurance of climate change (if you dispute we're educated, you might just be touching on a bigger problem we actually have in this country at least), only the degree of its impact over time, and the notion that at this point practical Fusion will have any impact on it (which is decades away).
BS...look at the heat waves and supercharged cyclones!