I think the majority of these private approaches, Helion included, are nothing more than investment scams. Get investors to invest money in you so you can spend it on things you want to.

I am convinced there is a major issue with ALL existing fusion schemes, ALL of them are working on a brute force approach, well save for "condensed matter fusion", otherwise known as "cold fusion", which while real does not seem capable of generating commercially useful amounts of energy, is that they are ALL relying on brute force.

There is a work-around to creating reactions in which there is a large energy barrier to be overcome but the end result is a lower energy state resulting in the release of energy, and that is what is known as quantum tunneling. There is no need to exceed the energy barrier IF you can quantum tunnel through it.

In chemistry we accomplish this by the use of a catalyst which can reduce the energy requirements by a factor of a trillion or more. There must be a nuclear analog akin to a catalyst chemically. There is muon catalyzed fusion but that's not workable because it takes too much energy to create muons and they don't hang around long enough.

I'm just posting this somewhat incomplete thought it hopes it might trigger a solution among all the brainiacs out there. And yea from all the LGBQxyz+ posts I know brainiacs are a minority but it only takes one workable solution.

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