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(NIF Based) “Nuclear Startup Inertia Raises $450M Series A”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj9KKzdklrE&pp=ygUZYmxvb21iZXJnIHN0YXJ0dXAgaW5lcnRpYQ%3D%3D
(NIF Based) “Laser Fusion Startup Inertia Raises Additional $450M”
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Laser-Fusion-Startup-Inertia-Raises-Additional/a71954
7 comments:
What the heck?
You can make money by hype by something that works, or by fraud.
I leave it to reader to watch the video and decide if they want to make money or not off this.
Hey if you had to sell your bitcoin in the last two weeks, you might as well invest in something that make some money.
So can they make a laser 1000 times bigger than NIF? I am not sure but maybe the will hire a bunch of former NIF employees to make it work. Just by cutting out Bechtel and the government I would guess you get you automatically bet 10-100 increase. A 10^3 well that could be stretch... but who would you you pick, will NIF or some private company provide fusion energy to the bay area first?
After the quantum computing hype, AI hype...I suppose fusion hype is just as legit as far as bs hype goes. I no longer care if this works as long as I can make profit off this. So yes, use fusion lasers to make free energy for AI centers that run quantum computers that can hack into your AI generated pod.. sounds like money go me.
Ok, lets be serious
500 million sounds like a lot but at LLNL/LANL the overhead rates that would mean about 140million for actual research. Maybe with private company that would 350 million so maybe you could make dent in actual results.
Hmmm...let me look at what can be moved in my portfolio.
Anyone dumb enough to buy into that line of baloney deserves what they get.
If NIF was deemed blueprint power plant ready, why isn’t DOE funding a NIF based prototype power plant like a LIFE 2.0?
Because NIF is not blueprint ready. ITER will use all the available tritium, none for NIF. There are no high power lasers with the required rep rate and efficiency. Cleanup and repair after a shot takes much too long. Tritium breeding rate is too low. Cross sections, handling and diffusion loss, decay. Targets are not made fast enough. The ice layer must be formed and have few defects. The target must be shot within a few days of capsule loading due to tritium decay, otherwise start over. And others. Research the literature, it is all there.
“…Research the literature, it is all there.”
Thanks, so private funds supporting this “start up”are based on what? From your post, not much. A Solyndra 2.0 but with private funds?
The private funds supporting fusion are just reacting to the hype machine. The hype machine is messing up many parts of our society. In science we have fusion for power production, string theory, quantum computing, AI, cold fusion, antivaccine, room temperature superconductivity, and on and on. To get the true picture look beyond hype. It can take some effort. By the way already there has been changes in direction and even termination of some efforts. One effort I am watching has switched to HE to compress a plasma for pulsed power production. What shape is the device in after the HE goes off? You are trying to pulse the device.
I should mention an effort that is apparently terminated. The Lockheed Skunk Works built some mirror machines but missed deadlines. I have not seen an official announcement, but the word out there is that it is over. The claim was that it would fit on a truck and the mirror machine was pictured as such. But all the support systems were not on the truck.
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