How pulsed magnetized fusion works
Helion Polaris: two plasma rings at over a million mph · 150 million °C · energy recovered directly
Form two rings of plasma, fire them at each other, merge and squeeze them with magnets until they fuse, and catch the push-back as electricity. Watch one pulse slowed down, then a train of them. Every number comes from one model.
Sources: POWER Magazine and TechCrunch, Helion's Polaris milestones (Feb 2026: 150 million °C, D-T fusion; Trenta reached 100 million °C); NEI Magazine and Fusion Energy News, Orion licences in Malaga, Washington (June 2026) and the Microsoft agreement for at least 50 MW from 2028. Machine length, magnet layout, field strength, energy recovered per pulse and pulse rate are illustrative; Helion hasn't published them. Others on this approach: TAE Technologies, Zap Energy, General Fusion.