63

Helion is expected to have its fusion generation device online by 2028 and to reach its target power generation of 50 megawatts or more within an agreed-upon one-year ramp up period. When the fusion device is fully up to speed producing 50 megawatts of energy, it will be able to power the equivalent of approximately 40,000 homes in Washington state.

While Helion’s deal with Microsoft is to get 50 megawatts online, the company eventually aims to produce a gigawatt of electricity, which is one billion watts, or 20 times the 50 megawatts it is selling to Microsoft.

Microsoft will pay for the megawatt hours of electricity as Helion delivers them to the grid.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] someone@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

Hey, I've seen this done before, it's basically limitless power. In Minecraft.

No, really, in Minecraft - albeit modded. Some sort of chunk loader in the Nether, plus some means of pumping fluids, plus some sort of interdimensional transport of fluids, plus some sort of lava-fueled power generator (all pretty standard and easy to make in an average tech-type modpack) equals unlimited free power.

Way back when I was admining an FTB server running on Minecraft 1.7.10 and dealing with lag issues (fucking Railcraft tanks...) I just decided to put an infinite lava source at spawn using the EnderTanks mod so that players wouldn't need to put chunkloaders all over the Nether to get their lava power fix. They could just tune their own receiving tank to the same "frequency" (a three colour code) and voila, lava for power (or whatever else, like Tinker's Construct smelteries, I love that mod) without lagging the whole damn server.

this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2024
63 points (100.0% liked)

technology

23313 readers
342 users here now

On the road to fully automated luxury gay space communism.

Spreading Linux propaganda since 2020

Rules:

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS