Energy company Helion is inching closer to its goal of firing up the world's first fusion reactor to produce usable electricity. It's currently considering a property in the city of Malaga, Washington, to set up a 50-MW facility and power Microsoft's data centers.
I mean, true, although I thought they were pretty upfront on wanting to produce the fuel in-house and specialize two reactor lines
Which, yeah, isn’t ideal… But if it works, they can’t patent an element. They won’t be able to monopolize the tech forever
It seems like a very elegant solution… If they can overcome the engineering challenges. There’s probably far better designs that could be made from the core idea