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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in reply to Nanook • • •This will bring the Steady State and Expanding universe debate back to the forefront of physics again. Have you heard of Christian Birkland? What they are calling plasma filamentation has been known as a Birkland Current for a long time now. It explains a lot more of the observable and verifiable universe than all of the mental models ever could.
Have you ever heard of the Primer Field videos? They are not well known, but I came across them years ago and they are some of the most interesting things I've seen in physics for a long time. They are part of this topic. I highly recommend watching them all.
He claims, in one of the videos, to have made several more of these videos. I wish he would post them. Fascinating stuff, things like this along with JWST is going to rewrite a lot of physics.
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in reply to Nanook • • •Dark matter, energy, and black holes are all the fudge factors that you have to use to make the standard model work. The primer fields provides magnetic explanations to all three, with examples and repeatable results using empirical data AKA science.
Magnetism is around 30k (not sure of the exact number) times stronger than gravity and explains away the need for all three fudge factors. How fact based things like the Primer Fields have been relegated to the fringe is insanity.
The electric universe offers a lot more tangible evidence based results, not just purely mathematics, but natural science. Actual action reaction type of stuff. Things abandoned after Newtonian physics.
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in reply to Nanook • • •"Now we still need a mechanism to explain the red-shift beyond Doppler shift, and I’m sure Doppler shift does happen with respect to local velocity differences, but something else has to explain it on cosmological scales, and I suspect whatever that is that is sapping energy from these photons over great distances is also the source of the so-called cosmological background radiation."
Basically, I can't find the exact article at the moment, so I'll paraphrase from memory. He believes that red shift is actually measuring the light from the plasma that makes up the galaxies. It's the cause of the red shift measurement. Which is at the heart of the expanding universe theory. That one measurement. This gives a mechanism to falsify that assumption.
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