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[–] 42beansinapod@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I thought they were going to make helium since it is non-renewable and humans are using it at an unsustainable rate.

[–] Atropos@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

No, silly, we'll make infinite gold and use that to purchase infinite helium.

Foolproof!

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Feel like that's a eventual when the profit margins get right.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Can we not spam neutrons at hydrogen?

There's a lot of hydrogen.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Isn't that half the plan of Helion Energy?

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Helion got really quiet since that last venture push :)

I've seen a few pretty solid questions about the lack of shielding around their running equipment being a red flag that their output is nowhere near what they claimed.

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

They have extremely poor diagnostics on their plasmas on top of everything else.