Y Combinator And Mithril Invest In Helion, A Nuclear Fusion Startup
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Re: Y Combinator And Mithril Invest In Helion, A Nuclear Fusion Startup
#2Anyone have more insights into how this works?
The figure, deuterium fuel is confusing as deuterium is an isotope and am unsure what they mean 'extraction' (how?).
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#3Anyone have more insights into how this works? The figure, deuterium fuel is confusing as deuterium is an isotope and am unsure what they mean 'extraction' (how?).
It's probably just referring to the separation of heavy water from normal water, which is then electrolyzed to produce the deuterium.
Re: Y Combinator And Mithril Invest In Helion, A Nuclear Fusion Startup
#4$1.5 million is not much runway.
Re: Y Combinator And Mithril Invest In Helion, A Nuclear Fusion Startup
#5another perpetual motion machine?
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#6another perpetual motion machine?
The same kinds of dismissals were probably said about everyone who tried to make an airplane. Someone eventually made it work, though.
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#7another perpetual motion machine?
Nah. Just a very risky investment. ITER uses "safe" physics that we know how works - it's a magnificent engineering exercise, but there are no new insights in fusion per se required. These guys seem to be aiming for an alternative solution with more eccentric science behind it. It will probably not work out, but neither does most start-ups.
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#8is this the equivalent of throwing shit at the wall and see what sticks?
why do vcs with a specialty in software suddenly stray into completely unknown territory? nothing left to fund in software? rarely does this end well.
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#9another perpetual motion machine?
You know fusion reactors burn fuel like any other power plant, right?
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#10$1.5 million is not much runway.
$1.5 million from YC is known as "smart money". You don't use smart money as runway, you use it to build runway.