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Check it out, 26 ships transiting the strait of Hormuz, all hugging the coast of Iran, making them impossible to interdict. They probably paid the toll. .How many are oil tankers, possible a large number, probably not under an Iranian flag. Yes the war risk is at 8%, the highest I have seen. Yes they could be interdicted in the open sea by the US. But how many ships can the US track, interdict and hold, if this number continues? This story is yet to break, but it will. The US twiddles its' thumbs. The Strait is beginning to open, at the pleasure of Iran. And really, the US can do nothing about it. The US is truly, utterly defeated, in spite of our military prowess. Might as well bring everyone home. Come November, the Dems will take the House, and begin the long arduous task of negotiating with Iran to reduce their enriched Uranium. Trump is a fool.

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DaVinci TAE and Fusion Energy How Fusion works, TAE’s model, and why it could change the world.

For a century, humanity has made electricity using the steam engine. Coal plants, gas plants, nuclear plants, even most solar thermal plants all boil water, spin a turbine, and make electricity.

Fusion breaks that pattern. But not all fusion follows the same path. Most fusion companies use deuterium and tritium. Tritium exists in very small quantities worldwide. There is presently not enough to scale up any of the fusion projects currently being pursued. But there is a second design. TAE. They chose a different path. One that require 10 higher temperatures than the Tritium designs. TAE’s entire strategy is built around a reaction called p‑B11, short for proton–boron‑11 fusion. I'll try to keep this simple. a proton and B11, a stable naturally occurring isotope of Boron. Same stuff that may be in your vitamin pill. Fuse these two you get aneutronic fusion, helium nuclei no neutrons (well almost none). Neutrons are the bane of fusion energy, they limit the lifespan of all parts of a fusion machine, tiny wrecking balls. However, with the use of boron, cheap by the ton and with pB11 the neutrons are nearly eliminated. So we have DT fusion. The one most fusion companies are chasing. Deuterium Tritium. Works like a flamethrower, creates heat (steam and turbines follow) but sprays neutrons everywhere. And then we have aneutronic fusion. More like an radiant electric space heater. It produces charged particles, not neutrons. Charged particles can be slowed down in an electric field and slowing them down directly generates electricity. This is the scalable model. So, we have.

1 Traditional nuclear power (fission) works by splitting atoms. This releases heat, which boils water, which spins a turbine, which makes electricity. It’s steam spinning turbines 2 DT fusion. Neutrons heat a blanket, the blanket heats water, back to steam spinning turbines. 3 p-B11 fusion. Produces charged helium particles, slowed in an electric field creates electricity. A giant electrical generator.

TAE is the only major fusion company pursuing p‑B11 seriously. The result of 25 years of engineering, multiple generations of machines, and a scientific board filled with world‑class plasma physicists. One of them is Ernest Moniz, the former U.S. Secretary of Energy and an MIT nuclear physicist. Moniz helped write the JCPOA, one of the most technically complex nuclear agreements ever drafted. His presence on TAE’s board is not symbolic. It signals that TAE is a serious scientific enterprise with real regulatory and technical credibility. TAE claims they are 5 years out, pilot scale, not a 1 GW plant. If successful this can be scaled up, and the world changes.

The reality, both approaches are being pursued in parallel. D‑T fusion is likely to achieve net energy first, because the physics is well understood and the engineering challenges, while formidable, are defined. Aneutronic fusion is further from ignition but offers a cleaner, simpler, and potentially more scalable long‑term producer of electricity. The financing. TAE is considered CapEx. Long term, research and investment heavy. Since 2002, TAE has raised over $1.3 billion through a steady progression of funding, NEA and Venrock, Goldman Sachs, Chevron, Sumitomo, and TIFF. Likely the longest horizon investor base in the fusion sector. However, investors require returns on their capital and TAE was not in a position to apply for DOE funding. The media company TMTG (DJT stock ticker) is in the process of completing a merger with TAE, and providing them with not only immediate funding, a return for their investors (stock), but puts them in a position for DOE funding. One billion degrees Celsius. TAE has built six generations of fusion machines, with the latest, DaVinci, in development as of 2025. Each generation has produced fusion‑relevant plasmas. They have yet to produce electricity. This could be our future, and a game changer for civilization. It's worth every penny invested. And no, I don't own any DJT stock.

Plasma fields. Because of the heat involved in both methods a plasma field must be utilized. I'm nowhere near being a physicist so the following I copied and pasted from AI.

Fusion happens in plasma, a super‑hot, electrically charged gas. It’s so hot that no solid container can hold it. If plasma touches the walls, the reaction stops instantly.

So fusion machines use magnetic fields to hold the plasma in mid‑air. The magnets act like an invisible bottle, keeping the plasma floating, stable, and hot enough for fusion to occur.

Every fusion design — D‑T or TAE’s p‑B11 — depends on this same idea: plasma suspended by magnetic fields so it never touches the walls.

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