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A comment on Helion’s fusion power purchase agreement with Microsoft. Parent comment

Re:Helion’s fusion power purchase agreement with Microsoft by ramraj07 on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @12:20PM (#35889571)
I mean I won’t put MY money in to Helion. From whatever I’ve read it’s not that simple for Helion to get their reactor to work and even if they did it likely won’t produce meaningful net power. But let’s see.
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Re:Helion’s fusion power purchase agreement with Microsoft by YetAnotherNick on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @01:22PM (#35890449)
Of course you shouldn't unless you have billions lying dedicated for leaving your legacy. It is a semi moonshot semi charity project, I don't think even investors would disagree with this. Similar to what OpenAI was like 4 years ago when it raised $1B as a non profit.
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Re:Helion’s fusion power purchase agreement with Microsoft by tim333 on Friday May 12, 2023 @09:10AM (#35915706)
Well as a small investor there's no way to get in really. But if they sold shares at a modest valuation I'd give it a punt.

I mean I kind of agree that the microsoft thing is probably a bit of a stunt give that I think they haven't generated any net electrical output at all yet. But I think they have a reasonable chance of getting it working at some point.

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