Wow what an episode, on par with anything I have seen on UK TV (Horizon or Equinox - back in the day!). Based on the two shows released this week, I have upped my Patreon subscription, keep up the great work!

@aladdin8623

4 жыл бұрын

"The fuel is simple. It's an amazing potential energy source. It would be absolutely brilliant to power our civilization using that." Actually this is exactly that kind of shortsighted thinking by which former generations inflicted modern problems on us. Just because we got oceans of water now it does Not mean it will stay like that. A fusion reactor needs Deuterium (water) and Tritium (by Lithium) to operate. When will human mankind start to take responsibility for all their actions and not just calculate in short terms of some hundred years at its best? Maybe we are going to need water and lithium for some quite more important problems to solve in future. Photovoltaics in the other hand is cheap, sufficent and works by the sunlight, which comes for free. It is still the best solution and has improved over time. People from industry nations should learn to live a more modest life for the sake of this planet.

@pdahandyman

4 жыл бұрын

@@aladdin8623 Every form of energy generation costs. You can't get away from that fact. Solar isn't free. It costs in materials, not only to build the panels themselves, but also to create the machinery that extracts the base materials from Earth, and all of the sub-groups dedicated to creating, servicing, and supplying this enormous extractive industrial complex. This process works in every corner of the world, for rich and poor (to criminally lesser degrees), all day long, non-stop. If we can do this, and one little ball bearing can generate the same amount of energy we can get from a 55-gallon drum of refined oil (after considering how much it took just to get that drum in the first place), then we can start working towards a less extractive world, and give ourselves a better chance at finding less impactful and destructive resources to generate power. It's all a matter of scale. This IS a means, in part, of achieving a more green solution for Earth. You should support it. Not shout it down.

@houndofzoltan

4 жыл бұрын

That's Horizon back in the day... I just watched a recent one that was 90% emotion 10% science.

@boltar2003

4 жыл бұрын

@@pdahandyman Solar? Give me a break. It doesn't work at night so you need immense battery or hydro storage to balance it out, barely works in a northern winter for 8 hours a day IF its not cloudy and doesn't work at all for 6 months of the year north of the arctic circle. Also solar panels have a relatively short life, are inefficient and expensive for the amount of power they produce. The only constant 24/7/365 renewable power is tidal or geothermal.

@alexhunter672

4 жыл бұрын

@@boltar2003 One size does not fit all. Some places will want solar. In the UK it isn't great, but in Africa where the sun shines all day, and that day is long, and when the sun stops, people are asleep, it is a pretty good fit.

Absolutely fascinating, and brilliantly presented for us hard-of-thinking non physicists.

@chm1701

4 жыл бұрын

Here, here. Thanks for the common sense comment, rather than the naysayers usual bull.

@JustWasted3HoursHere

4 жыл бұрын

"Hard-of-thinking". I'm going to start using that! Thanks! :)

@ThePlayerOfGames

4 жыл бұрын

Seconded, Helen made this really simple and still kept the detail!

@matthewmason8982

4 жыл бұрын

And not too dumbed down for those of us that do understand. Really annoying when some shows gloss over the interesting bits because most won’t understand it.

@liondoor4554

4 жыл бұрын

I'll "third" that: an appropriately WONDERFUL mix of detail, summary, and --dare I say it-- hope for the future‼️

I like this interviewer. ._. Clearly knew a lot about the subject and managed to insert some crucial sentences and clarifications to engage the lesser among us.

@sallerc

4 жыл бұрын

Yep - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Czerski

@theelectricmonk3909

4 жыл бұрын

@@sallerc She has a PhD in experimental explosives physics - why the hell didn't I know about THAT course when I was young enough to be at University!?!

@sallerc

4 жыл бұрын

@@theelectricmonk3909 Haha, it's never too late right!?

@peterfireflylund

4 жыл бұрын

@@theelectricmonk3909 And yet she got the 3ns to 1m conversion hilariously wrong ;)

@CED99

4 жыл бұрын

@@peterfireflylund Yes doesn't everybody know the speed of light in a vacuum is 1 ft/ns? Just multiply by 3 and cushty.

Watching Helen 100% focused on the screen while everyone's getting their fingers in their ears never gets old.

@bazoo513

2 жыл бұрын

Helen's PhD research was in experimental explosives physics - she is used to loud bangs! 🙂 (OTOH, she is also an oceanographer, and it is awfully quiet down there...)

This was one of the most captivating video segments I've seen in recent memory. It doesn't treat me like a complete idiot with artificial tension and "WOW!" close-up facial expression moments and no pointless guitar-grinding background. It explains everything in the complete opposite way the Discovery channel does. This is just brilliant. I wish TV was like this.

Best 23:28 mins investment in time i have made in a while , wish that team all the best in their extraordinary endeavours . To Helen Czerski i say , thanks for that wonderful bit of reporting , please make more pieces like this one and thank you to your team and fullychargedshow in general .

@TechnologyMove

4 жыл бұрын

Feeling the same way Burnie. I haven't watched a good science video in long time. Thank you Fully Charged for this opportunity.

@DavidOfWhitehills

4 жыл бұрын

How much helium will be used for the cryogenics for the capacitors etc per terrawatt year? Is there enough helium on Earth for this?

@elektrotehnik94

4 жыл бұрын

Great video, just wish there were subtitles, it was hard to understand all the jargon being said... if there were subs, you could at least google what it meant. Since I'm an engineer interested in fusion, I can only imagine how others felt :D Didn't even know there was this type of fusion being proposed, fusion is more complex than we think.

@peterleid5060

4 жыл бұрын

Excellent presentation - very informative - I still have some gapping holes in my understanding - like the idea of sub-titles for introspection & self study - well thought through edit Helen Czerski - the future of power for us all is an enduring fascination - three days of US power supply from one giga factory - interesting perspective - if the sun does the fusion thing as it does... might there be another example that does it better out there? if not, second best might be gold standard?

@paddywhack9261

3 жыл бұрын

@@peterleid5060 3 minutes, NOT 3 days! [Play it again, Sam.]

That dude with the xylophone gave me such a good laugh

@davebrooks69

4 жыл бұрын

Good morning campers...

@MoDa87

4 жыл бұрын

I was thinking that must be a inside joke. They have this multi million facility and they forgot to add a chime. So they bought a 5£ xylophone.

@johnwade1095

4 жыл бұрын

That's actually his only job.

@xc43t

4 жыл бұрын

@@johnwade1095 He is doing it well though!

@samuelfellows6923

4 жыл бұрын

What’s called improvisation 😉

Loved the manually operated analog frequency tuned sound wave generator.... :-) @5:21

@gilian2587

4 жыл бұрын

I would have laughed so hard if it was a theremin.

@inspiringengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha

@colinsmith1495

4 жыл бұрын

I paused the video there and showed it to my wife. Such efficient and flexible technology. It's truly genius.

@inspiringengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha :)

@pooheadlou

4 жыл бұрын

😂

Someone definitely lent him that jacket just for the interview.

@dcj991

4 жыл бұрын

He looked quite dapper

@Will-W

4 жыл бұрын

You're going to be interviewing about your research next week. Wears a screen printed T-shirt with stretched out collar.

@rfdangel001

4 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure that jacket is his, it's probably just his style

@rrookie28

4 жыл бұрын

As if any one knows how to dress in uk

@iandunn8346

4 жыл бұрын

@Cubeoctahedron how does the say someone dress determine someone's knowledge or ambition towards a certain subject? You sir, are very narrow minded judgmental individual. I'm sure you love yourself. Edit: if anything... IMO...it actually means the opposite, he's spends so much time barried in his work that he gives zero fucks to what someone thinks about the way he dresses... He has other pressing issues... Like trying to sold the world's enevery crisis

Fascinating stuff. Great to see Helen aboard at Fully Charged.

I’m completely unqualified and insufficiently educated to comment about whether Nuclear Fusion is a viable proposition for the future. I do love the fact that there are making physics discoveries and understanding which is always great. On another note I can hardly believe that the little show which Robert started not that many years ago with a hand held camera has turned into such an amazing show.

@PVNInteriors

4 жыл бұрын

Fusion. Not fission.

@ewadge

4 жыл бұрын

Patrick Van Nice you are right of course. I edited it

@SuperCajunKing

4 жыл бұрын

@@IlIlllIllIlIIIll other than make energy with it apparently.

@9unner22

4 жыл бұрын

@@IlIlllIllIlIIIll "perfectly viable". No. Fission is an abomination. Even working plants constantly release pollution and when meltdowns happen they are catastrophic.

@gungan5822

4 жыл бұрын

In laymens terms: we either figure it out, or we plateau and stagnate.

Humanity looks at fusion. Tries containing plasma. Fails. Tries using laser pressure. Fails. Tries using electron cloud pressure.....fails Humanity activates its primary skill, hits Fusion with Rock.

Awesome episode, you all did really great work here! It is so exciting to see advances in clean and renewable energy such as this. Fusion has been that "just out of reach" goal for a long time and I am excited to see these kinds of advances in that field. Thanks for the awesome video! :)

This is better than anything I've seen on TV in a very long time. Keep up the excellent work, and much kudos to all involved!

Builds fusion reactor from scratch Uses a toy xylophone for PA chime That's brilliant XD

@AdaptivePhenix

4 жыл бұрын

Darned budget constraints 😁

18:00 - everyone except Helen covering their ears. Me: ... wait for it :D

@autumn_rain

4 жыл бұрын

16:31

@srfrg9707

4 жыл бұрын

Марин Алдимиров The cameraman was such a douchebag!

@lyndonmansell351

4 жыл бұрын

Earplugs are way more efficient than hands over your ears. They work there all the time so want to LI it long term damage.

@chlyon

4 жыл бұрын

@@lyndonmansell351 They probably also had the earbuds in .

How good to see a presenter that understands the subject matter, can ask relevant questions and conduct an all-round professional interview. This is the quality I want to see when clicking a KZread video.

Sun is rubbish at fusion! Well we are lucky then.

@YourGamingTeam

4 жыл бұрын

arijit patra hahaha what a stupid thing he said, white boy that never sees the sun.

@arijit276

4 жыл бұрын

@@YourGamingTeam He said it as a joke, as am I.

@herbertlumsden3730

4 жыл бұрын

I agree Arijit. The hubris of european and american "scientists" is only exceeded by their immense failure to accept their ignorance, folly and lack of respect.

@arijit276

4 жыл бұрын

@@herbertlumsden3730 Ok, this is getting weird as I said before, the guy definitely said it as a joke. It is a scientific fact in a comedic way. I have lot of respect for what they are trying to do. My comment is an ironical joke, I mean imagine if the sun burnt at peak efficiency. Earth would be vapour.

@MrGonzonator

4 жыл бұрын

@@arijit276 sun would very quickly explode, as would all other stars.

"You can see all the charging numbers going up" Suddenly: Windows 10 Update Needs to Restart your Fusion Reactor....

@jonburnell532

4 жыл бұрын

😂

@CalgarGTX

4 жыл бұрын

At least it has driver support for it 🤷‍♂️

@JasonBaldry

4 жыл бұрын

My worry was the wireless keyboard. What happens when the batteries die and you can't trigger?

@theinspiringengineer-scien6393

4 жыл бұрын

Hahahahahahaha!!!!!!

@therealcaldini

4 жыл бұрын

I watched this episode shortly after watching all 5 episodes of Chernobyl. That scene reminded me of the final scenes in the court room where they explain what went wrong. Then everyone started putting their fingers in their ears and I thought... oh! Thank goodness they don’t have to worry about a runaway reaction!

4:08 "The sun is actually kind of rubbish at it" Made me smile

@zeryphex

4 жыл бұрын

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton-proton_chain_reaction Read the third paragraph. It supports Nicholas Hawker's statement about the sun being rubbish at it ... or being inefficient. It's just the nature of the sun's physics ... no one is to blame.

@gilian2587

4 жыл бұрын

It might be rubbish at it; but it's been in the business of fusion a lot longer than we have. ;)

@jazzywillo10

4 жыл бұрын

@@zeryphex your compassion for the sun warms my heart

@gilian2587

4 жыл бұрын

@Panthera The main problem with fusion is that standard steam driven fusion probably isn't going to cut it. All mechanisms of producing "heat" to generate steam involve neutron radiation absorption. You can do this with lithium; but there isn't enough lithium in the world to supply sufficient energy for the world using this mechanism. Don't forget that neutron radiation is the worst type of radiation that's out there. "Clean fusion" that relies on neutron radiation as it's primary source of heat is an oxymoron. Fission based energy transduction of electricity is basically: Nuclear Reaction ==> Heat ==> Steam ==> Rotational (turbine) ==> Electricity. If we knew of a more direct approach of energy transduction that went more like: Nuclear Reaction ==> (Electric, or Magnetic Field, or both) ==> Electricity; then that would be even more revolutionary than fusion itself.

@Dave_E7

4 жыл бұрын

IMO this guy had some rubbish flying around his neurons when he said that!

Great. Idea and great story telling. Please let Helen host more episodes, she’s an awesome presenter, engaging and communicates really well. Saw her on stage once and her passion for science is infectious!

That was amazing. What a great production. I'd love to see you do more of these hard science videos with Helen.

This was an excellent and brilliant peice of work. If Tomorrows World was still around today they would be taking their hats off to everyone involved with this fantastic documentary right now. Honestly happy to watch this again, just to try and pick up on what I thought I understood first time round! Also loved the way everyone behind Helen were covering their ears even with the protection in, and Helen was completly oblivious. Fantastic work Helen, I really look forward to more like this on fully charged! (Oh and in case it wasn't clear, I think the camerawork/editing is top notch on this, as always!)

@g4egk

4 жыл бұрын

This is what I imagined Tomorrow's World to be if it were still running!

@SilverCanary1

4 жыл бұрын

How do we know this isn't actually tomorrow's world? It is tomorrow's world...

That was a great report! A well spent 23 minutes that expanded my knowledge. I was encouraged that they are doing parallel engineering work in anticipation of a successful experiment. I also greatly appreciated the practical and level headed approach of the scientist to the solution for clean energy sources.

They have a long way to go before this will fit on the back of a DeLorean!

@MrZhefish

4 жыл бұрын

they will first put it on a LB&SCR L class locomotive, as the dude said, he relays on proven technology - and the steam engine is already build in

They're waiting for you, Gordon. In the Test Chamber.

@Certifiable

4 жыл бұрын

Catch me later, I'll buy you a beer!

@Mandalore313

4 жыл бұрын

Do you know who ate all the donuts?

@hycron1234

4 жыл бұрын

Rise and Shine Mr. Freeman.

@AceTycho

4 жыл бұрын

100%

@reddragon2335

4 жыл бұрын

You win. This is the best comment.

I heard the fellow say "F U L L Y C H A R G E D"

@forgoodnessache5399

4 жыл бұрын

Probably planted in his brain, and possibly deliberately.

@efari

4 жыл бұрын

Roll credits.

@gammaraygem

4 жыл бұрын

he was talking about the universe.

@BharatKumarBellamkonda

4 жыл бұрын

17:29

@alniseschrenkek6348

4 жыл бұрын

@@efari """ Roll credits. """ YES! Thats what i thought, for the end of Part I .... TV style.

Utterly fascinating - what an excellent show. My thanks to all involved :)

18:05 Everyone else is putting fingers in their ears... em Helen... 18:17 the look of sheer mischief on that guys face as she jumps out of her skin.. 😂

@TraditionalAnglican

4 жыл бұрын

Watch Helen putting in earplugs starting at 16:34.

@MrGonzonator

4 жыл бұрын

@@TraditionalAnglican they've all got ear plugs and still holding their ears...

@coniow

4 жыл бұрын

The interesting thing was the camera man: HE could see that they had their hands over their ears as well as the plugs, and the fact that HE did NOT jump when she did. . . . Or he (am I being sexist, and there is a 'She' behind the camera?), is deaf!

@scotttovey

4 жыл бұрын

@@coniow The camera could have been mounted to a tripod.

@coniow

4 жыл бұрын

@@scotttovey You are right, it could have, although if you look at the left edge of the shot, you can see it moving slightly left and right with reference to the red cable in the backround. Maybe fixed in the 'Tilt' but free to pan from side to side, but I would expect a twitch even then. Possibly using a 'Steady Cam' harness system, but they cost an arm and a leg, as I understand it. Respect to the lens-man if it WAS hand held.

So brilliant to have proper science content that us laymen can enjoy. Top stuff!!

One of the best and most informative shows I have ever seen. Fantastic job people, keep up the brilliant work.

What an awesome science show! I really wish television science shows where half as good as this. Thank you for giving the audience some credit for having a brain and getting into some real science and detailed explanations.

17:29 is great. It’s like a Fully Charged / Star Wars promo all in one.

@garciaoneris

4 жыл бұрын

guy: fully charged Editor: roll credits

Brilliant watch. The host did a fantastic job! We need to see more of her!

I can't get over how good the production quality is. Nice work.

@fullychargedshow

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Takes a lot of hard work for our very small team

Brilliant show & presented by an excellent presenter who clearly knows her stuff & asks all the right questions in a relaxed & friendly way. This is how technology programmes should be made.Top marks to the whole production crew & thanks again to Fully Charged.

Her: "It's a big thing isn't it?" Him: "This is where the magic happens, yeah"

She is good. I wouldn’t mind if she hosted another episode. Well done

@101perspective

4 жыл бұрын

She was okay. There were several blatantly obvious follow up questions though that she never asked. For example, she asked how much energy was produced by one of those cubes. The guy answered about the equivalent of 1 barrel of oil. The obvious immediate follow up question should have been, "How much energy is used to create the reaction?". I mean, it is supposed to be about the creation of an energy source after all. If it takes 2 barrel's equivalent of oil to create the reaction then it's hardly anywhere close to being ready. Without that question being asked and answered then the entire report is kind of pointless.

@alexanderbuisman3366

4 жыл бұрын

101perspective he actually mentions that the ratio is 1 : 300. So there’s your answer.

@101perspective

4 жыл бұрын

@@alexanderbuisman3366 Yeah, he said in principle it was 1:300. That begs the question of where are they now in regards to that number? The way she left it, it gives viewers (such as yourself) the impression that they are getting 1:300. That is not what he said though... he never actually said how much because she never asked.

@alexanderbuisman3366

4 жыл бұрын

101perspective in the interview it is mentioned that they are not yet at a net energy gain. I did not get the impression that they were. If they were, then we would already have fusion plants up and running.

@101perspective

4 жыл бұрын

​@@alexanderbuisman3366 Again, that information begs the question of how much is going in vs coming out? You keep mentioning these bits of information as though it excuses not asking such an obvious question when in reality it just helps point out the error in not doing so.

Getting the electron where you want them “ like hearding cats” 😂 brilliant!

The Xylophone was worth watching the video for alone!!!

@titovalasques

4 жыл бұрын

Dean Fielding I want his job!

Helen is so good. Please, more from her if she's willing. Thank you.

Amazing. The best material I've seen so far on First Light Fusion ..

This is by far one of the most advanced and complex videos I have ever watched!!! absolutely amaaaazing, all of the commentators were amazing and as a laymen was able to understand in for the most part.. After 15 years or so watching vidoes on the tube, wowwwww, this is my top5 !!!!!! thank you for amazing insight of what is to come !!!

Absolutely incredible episode FC! What an awesome technology. This is why we love fully charged, beautifully edited, Incredible show explaining details of things that have the potential to change the world. Some very geeky people that I could listen to all day! Great work all!

This is without a doubt the best thing I have ever watched, on KZread, TV, or anywhere else. Simply incredible. Thank you.

@nicholass3964

4 жыл бұрын

You're either an hopeless optimist, or mind-numbingly naive. energy and fuel-in costs, efficiency at continuous industrial process scale and the tritium problem.....TRITIUM !

5:20 "yeah, I work at fusion reaction laboratory. we bombard hydrogen fuel pellets with ultrahigh velocity projectiles to fuse their atoms together. yeah, my job is playing the xylophone tune on the broadcast announcement system".

@c3000gtw

4 жыл бұрын

Have you thought of using a glockenspiel to play your tune?

@TheDuke-vb9cq

4 жыл бұрын

You're probably going to be out of a job shortly ! A High Tech Canadian Electrical Engineering Company, SAFIRE, has just revealed (July 2019 at Bath University UK) that it already has a new type of "Green" Radiation Free Reactor already on the drawing board, that will be more efficient and cheaper than Wind Generators ! It has also discovered a method to "Switch Off" Radiation !!! Details of both the stunning Scientific discoveries and new technologies this company revealed at Bath University. Including incredible film of the Laboratory testing, which recreated the Suns atmosphere in a special Multi-million pound test chamber. Showing (to the public) for the first time the incredible behaviour of Plasma (the fourth state of matter) and its amazing ability to create EVERY known ELEMENT in the Universe. All this can be found elsewhere on the Internet on a Astro Electrical Physicists website under the heading: Holoscience.com

@judymichaud4081

4 жыл бұрын

You will never succeed with this technology and you know it. A waste of money really unfortunate the tax payers foot the bill for most of this.

@duhaceman1130

4 жыл бұрын

@@judymichaud4081 go ride a horse somewhere

Forcing two atoms together seems awfully inefficient. Have you considered signing them both up to tinder? Some things should never be forced lol

@johnjonjhonjonathanjohnson3559

4 жыл бұрын

what kind of relationship do you have?!

@davebox588

4 жыл бұрын

Both ions have the same charge, so maybe Grindr would be more appropriate?

@manjsher3094

4 жыл бұрын

Luke Johnson that's funny, a real lol. Ty

@hubristicmystic

4 жыл бұрын

Theyr're all boy atoms so grindr, and then you get an atom orgy ;)

@xanderjames8682

4 жыл бұрын

Atoms with benefits

Brilliantly fascinating for this old physics teacher. It seems the remaining problems are old ones still. 1. Exceeding the break even point where more energy is extracted than input to cause the reaction. 2. How to make it repeatable, sustained, and controlled. 3. Scaling it to actual industrial utility.

@DiscoFang

4 жыл бұрын

What a coincidence - The first diesel engine 1. Required a concurrent power source to turn the crankshaft to assist the combustion cycle. 2. Wouldn't run continuously. 3. Was hilariously large and yet not industrially useable. ... Until they overcame each of those 3 steps.

@chabka34

4 жыл бұрын

I don't think thay are going about this the right way the other type keeping a constant reaction to me seams like a better idea instead of blowing up a test bed and having to reset over and over

I always wonder how pulsed fusion reactors are supposed to work. You'd have to build them in a way that allows pulses for months on end without having to take them apart because all the guts have been blown to pieces by every pulse.

@5nefarious

4 жыл бұрын

Seems like it has the same problem that all high-power railguns have right now.

@drunkenhobo8020

4 жыл бұрын

There's an old quote about fusion reactors: "We say that we will put the sun into a box. The idea is pretty. The problem is, we don’t know how to make the box."

@althomas7937

4 жыл бұрын

Something like a Gatling gun? With different chambers being emptied and reloaded with one ready to fire every 5 seconds.

@Electroblud

4 жыл бұрын

@@althomas7937 Yeah probably. I don't doubt that it's possible to build a fully working and reliable pulsed fusion reactor, I just think it's a major engineering challenge that at least the PR of such facilities just gloss over. That is why to me magnetic confinement (or any other possible form of continuous confinement) makes much more sense to me. It doesn't by default blow itself apart all the time. Then again similar could be said about, internal combustion engines. Small, rapidly repeated explosions that need to be tamed. Those work too. Very differently of course. We'll see what the future brings

@635574

4 жыл бұрын

This is 3 part probem, they need a way to charge it up quick enough, chamber thats reusable and energy harvesting system thats actually generating more energy.

What stunning enthusiasm for the project! Clearly the major issue is going to be building a reactor that doesn't sustain such catastrophic damage after each single pulse. I like the novel approach of essentially using mechanical principles to create fusion rather than hyper powerful lasers or giant superconducting magnets cooled to absolute zero. A great report. Thank you.

Well presented, exceptionally professional feeling episode and fascinating subject. Subscribed 😊

Fantastic interview and video. A complex topic made simple, absolutely loved it!

Fascinating video. As they scale up production I hope they have budget for a more extensive xylophone.

@donutpanic

4 жыл бұрын

Loved the xylophone. Nice British touch!

@danthebat666

4 жыл бұрын

Glockenspiel. Xylophones are made of wood.

@drunkenhobo8020

4 жыл бұрын

Xylo- being a prefix for wood-related things, derived from Ancient Greek.

@davidcox8961

4 жыл бұрын

It is after all proven technology.. xylophones that is :-)

@davidcox8961

4 жыл бұрын

@@danthebat666 marimbas are of wood

Nice to include an episode about future energy research. Thanks for doing it.

Confident, knowledgeable, and properly challenging host. Thank you.

Just wanted to add to my voice to the chorus of praise for this episode (and I was already a fan of the channel). The combination of lucid explanation and excellent editing - telling the story at the same time as building up to the trigger moment - was absolutely gripping. Great work by everyone. Love EVs but great to also learn about new tech in general. More of this please!

my evolution on Helen Czerski while watching this video: - hmm. affable. like. - damn. smart. - ok, really knows when to pause and appreciate the scale of things and tech. Excellent educated educator. I'm very grateful. - fascinated now to the point of googling Helen. OH...WELL THEN. A proper smarty. - impressed such a scientist is humble enough to walk us through this tech, making the entire exercise miles more than it would have been with just about anyone else. you know...the ones who nod a lot and ask questions so basic and uninformed you just want them to talk less so the clever folk can talk more. So grateful Fully Charged was able to attract this talent to their channel. This is a great video. Thank you Helen. Your science work may be endlessly fascinating, but please return often to this medium to help us peer through your eyes into this world. Its truly a wonderful thing.

What a phantastic video. Thank you very much for the great insight. Can't wait for more.

@theriddler6227

4 жыл бұрын

Fantastic phusion demonstration.

I watched half a million vids on fusion in last few yr.s and SOMEHOW this is maybe the best. :D

She's a great member of the crew. Keep it up -- great episode!

Fantastic interviews. I went in not knowing about fusion for the energy grid , and left feeling like I understood it very well. Certainly the interviewees know their stuff, but your questions were very focused and understandable, revealed the meat of the technology, and all without being too dry. It's clear all involved are knowledgeable and passionate about clean energy, interviewer and interviewees alike. Watching this was very much well worth the runtime of the video. Thanks for this. If we all successfully move on to something like this, a renewable baseload (again, without the downsides of fission, as explained in the video) we will look back and wonder why we didn't do it sooner. (I think the answer has something to do with oil companies and oil-rich nations wanting some profits... But I suppose needing to get the physics down first is a legitimate reason as well!)

@royslapped4463

2 жыл бұрын

Yet the actual useful information was left out.

Love these more in depth videos.

Brilliant episode! I'm afraid the xylophone triggered this recollection: "He's Arnold, Arnold, Arnold Rimmer Without him life would be much grimmer He's handsome, trim, and no-one slimmer He will never need a zimmer"

@OldNavajoTricks

4 жыл бұрын

Oh smeg, my mind jumped right back to the boatride...

One of the best videos i have seen in a while which does give some hope for the future! A mist everything saying we are doomed!

"The cat's you're herding..." So accurate! Electrons are cats, and there is so much resistance to controlled movement.

@tobyw9573

4 жыл бұрын

If electrons are cats, then protons are “anns”. Cute!

@theotherstevesteve

4 жыл бұрын

@@tobyw9573 the cats were actually nuclei made of protons and neutrons

Fantastic episode, well done. The toy xylophone is just hilarious.

That is some amazing content right there. Keep it up.

That was a fantastic video, really informative.

Definitely bring Helen back to present more episodes.

@markifi

4 жыл бұрын

Downsize to a Robert-only show and bring back 480p!

" Can we make a star on Earth? " is a great documentary. This is a very nice update.

You guys are right on target, keep going! Don't stop! I believe in you

Wow! That was truly fascinating. Loving the music too, bonus!...

Hundreds of years later and shooting something at another thing is still the answer to the advancement of humankind. Lol. That and the good'ol steam engine

@primovid

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome! So true!

@chabka34

4 жыл бұрын

It's actually a super advanced steam turbine that is the size of a building

@pavelsulc2617

4 жыл бұрын

people can shoot and they like to shoot. this could work

@davewilliams6172

4 жыл бұрын

We will be entering the new Steam Age

@assasine08

4 жыл бұрын

i have read something very simmiliar on another video about fusion.... huh

Helen Czerski pops up in all my favorite content - no doubt she'll be retro-brighting an old Amiga if I look hard enough.

@bangerbangerbro

4 жыл бұрын

Haha I've always been into retro computers like that before I got into cars last year (I'm still into them but not as much). I only knew who she was because of a TV documentary about the seasons and weather that she presented.

Great video, thanks. All the best with this project

great episode , thanks for the knowledge 👍

You can tell she already knows a hell of a lot about this, and is only asking the questions for the interview. It's obvious by the fact she's better at dumbing it down than the guys she interviewed.

When I was 11, I read my first article about fusion, and that it would solve all our energy problems. When I was 26, I read about cold fusion, and how THAT would solve all our energy problems. Now, I'm 57 and we are still a long way off from a first fusion reactor (one that creates more energy than it uses). Until then, I suggest that we use the power of the one and only fusion reactor in our solar system to power our civilization. It comes in many forms, solar, wind and hydro being the most promising ones. We know it works, and will for a few more billion years.

@helmsscotta

4 жыл бұрын

Petroleum is also stored fusion power.

@Aleksandrgrc

4 жыл бұрын

Check out SAFIRE project

@nickharalampopoulos

4 жыл бұрын

No they are not. Just 20 years away!

@Lukexxxxxx

4 жыл бұрын

tell me more.. can you turn it on and off when you need it? can you generate all the electricity you need when and where you need it?

@mstandenberg1421

4 жыл бұрын

It requires humans to manage it and they won’t last very long.

This was so interesting. Dr. Czerski is *fantastic* as an science educator and presenter. GOOD STUFF! Thank you.

Love this stuff. Good work, guys and girls.

Our business model is to sell these... (well, that and burn through as many rounds of VC funding as we can) Sad that absolutely zero mention of the NIF (National Ignition Facility) came up, where lasers are used to compress a very similar target. Except they've realized that inertial confinement fusion isn't viable, while the venture capitol folks haven't figured out that this re-branded effort won't go anywhere either.

@xXJeReMiAhXx99

4 жыл бұрын

interesting, I havent kept up with the field at all but this approach instinctively looks very limited.

@cryptohacker

4 жыл бұрын

This episode did not touch ONCE on the significant hurdles & obstacles: scalability, costs, efficiency, overhead, infrastructure, extreme fuel limitations, etc, etc. Just naive rosy optimism of "what if" with someone else's money. :( What a shit episode and an utter waste of $$. Now low power fusion (ie, natural) that is changing our understanding of stars? THAT is quite amazing. (See 'SAFIRE Project' 2019 updates.)

@SilverCanary1

4 жыл бұрын

Precisely. Who would believe the word of someone paid to talk about something! I don't believe myself sometimes. Perhaps I need to quit work...

@Favorline

4 жыл бұрын

ya, I wrote about the issue of reuse. and that fact when this should be running all day long firing a lot of times a minute. how are they going to clean the inside of the thing when it's in a vacuum. and there is no room for opening it while it's on? also all the damage and debris. I for one can't see this working at all. not even build to large scale.

@SilverCanary1

4 жыл бұрын

@@Favorline have you heard of robots? They are these machines that do things and don't have to breathe. Remarkable creatures so-to-speak. Some say they will dismember old nuclear reactors if asked nicely but I wouldn't know as I don't live inside the chernobyl exclusion zone...

Brilliant!! Can we have more of these videos

Helen is a great interviewer in this. Intelligent, inquisitive, and fun!

I really enjoyed how Helen and the people she interviewed explained the processes. Well done!

@fullychargedshow

4 жыл бұрын

She is wonderful

I was interviewed for a job here. They were after programmers though.

That guy in the background at 18:17 is the best part of this episode. And the rest was brilliant!

This is such a fascinating video, such exciting tech and explained and presented in such a way that's interesting and digestible for mere mortals like myself, great job yet again Helen Czerski & team.

Excellent video. More of this please.

Textbook episode of the best of Fully Charged. Loved it.

If the sun was 'good at fusion' it would use up all its fuel in 0.0000001 of a second and vaporise everything this side of Alpha Centauri! :D (I'd definitely advise sunscreen) ;)

@Aleksandrgrc

4 жыл бұрын

Check out the SAFIRE project

@nathanwoodruff9422

4 жыл бұрын

Well, if you want to hang around for another 5 billion years, that is exactly what our sun is going to do. Our sun will go Super Nova sometime in the future taking all the planets with it.

@thomasackerman3995

4 жыл бұрын

@@nerv69 yes..according to theory...humans are still learning and forgetting.

@Tonysmithmusic

4 жыл бұрын

no it will swell to become a red giant, still swallowing everything out to mars, earth will be toast. no supernova needed.

@PongoXBongo

4 жыл бұрын

@@Tonysmithmusic/videos Left unattended, yes. But in a billion years humanity will have figured out how to siphon off some of the energy/mass and keep it to a fixed size. That is if we're still needing to keep Earth around at all by that point (maybe for sentimental reasons?).

It is not often my attention is held this long. Bravo!

I really like the xylophone use for the intercom announcements

Something about proprietary consumables and business model. I can see where this is going. I used to work in a fusion plasma diagnostics research lab in my senior year of undergrad. In only a semester, I became quite disillusioned about the field. The talk back then is that this technology is "imminent". In reality, the field is a giant sinkhole of money that could have been put to work elsewhere. There was plenty of talk about how we need bigger and bigger machines just to get ignition, let alone self-sustaining reactor. Little talk about what practical machines would be possible, if any. We kept telling the government grant committees that research is almost complete and commercial reactors would be in operation inside of 20 years. That was 30 years ago. Now, there is a new breed of reactor engineering firm telling investors that research is almost complete and proprietary reactors will be ready to monopolize energy production in 20 years. A whole new generation is buying into a mirage that has now lasted over 60 years.

@grasonicus

4 жыл бұрын

That's what I've been wondering about too and I looked it up. Running this facility costs money, lots of money. They don't generate anything they can sell. So it's venture capital with most likely taxpayer money behind some of that that keeps them alive. Fusion has a longish track record of not delivering. So, realistically, the chances are not good that this will deliver the desired outcome.

@tagg8233

4 жыл бұрын

He mentioned their business model was selling the fuel pellets, so they are almost certainly privately funded. This is science, we don't know the future and what the challenges are. It isn't a great position that nothing with potentially uncertain outcomes should be funded, because that is essentially saying no to science. Yes, estimates for fusion made many years ago were wrong, so are many hypotheses. We don't know this though, until the experiments are done and this requires investment. Since energy is a key requirement for our future, investing in a variety of options is sensible, even those with longer and more uncertain lead times if the potential reward will eventually be worth it.

@grasonicus

4 жыл бұрын

​@@tagg8233 Investment is gambling. So, one should get as close as possible an estimate of the probability of success. With the history of fusion, that will be low. Then one should get as close an estimate of how big the win will be if one wins. Obviously, in this case, the win will be enormous. Then one does a calculation involving both these metrics. I doubt if many people will gamble with their own money on this. Other people's money is something else. And it's not just the fuel pellets. The way to get the heat and pressure high enough so the elements in the fuel pellet fuse is no easy task. So, selling fuel pellets which cannot be used won't help.

@tagg8233

4 жыл бұрын

@@grasonicus this is, sort of, my point. Yes, investing in i.e. solar panels is more certain for small monitory gain by slightly improving efficiency or something, but the payoff is low. Investing in fusion is like betting on the 1000:1 horse, yes the chance of the huge payoff is small, but the payoff would be HUGE. So, for those with plenty of profits (i.e. energy company shareholders) it may make sense to bet on slim to win big. If you own a stake in the new energy the whole world wants, that ensures the continued success and growth of your company. Science is funded on the basis of money being collected and a call for proposals to solve a problem being published. Then scientists submit their proposals and they are all weighed and compared by a field of experts and the best ones are selected. It's not some random guy deciding how to spends millions, it's a self-governing system. For private science (i.e. companies rather than governments investing) you also have to clearly demonstrate profitability, and these guys clearly did, regardless of what random people on KZread think of their idea based only on the knowledge of a 20 minute tour. Based on what we saw, however, I would think the investors are feeling pretty great about their decision

@grasonicus

4 жыл бұрын

@@tagg8233 Investing in science is far preferable to giving money to the arts and humanities - which should be discouraged. They won't put their problems in this video for all the world to see. Have they managed to create a fusion with their method yet? Not as far as I can remember. If they did, was the energy input far higher than energy output? It's the energy input for fusion which throws a spanner in the works.

From what I'm seeing we are still closer to 40 years away than 8 years.

Absolutely amazing technology, but explained in a basic way for us mere mortals. It is wonderful to see future in the making. Thank you so much for this incredible video.

@jeffmorin5867

Жыл бұрын

So...you believe these are "gods" speaking...? Isn't that special...

It's a glockenspiel, not a xylophone (which would have tuned wooden bars). And the reason they use something so cheapo and banal as an attention-getter in such a high-tech installation is: it's unmistakable, it's inimitable, and it's 100% reliable. A fancy electronic beep could be mistaken for any old mobile phone or computer sound; a technical hitch could trigger it at the wrong moment; and it's easy to ignore digital bleeps in such an environment. Basically, the silly little toy glockenspiel HAS to be operated by the guy standing right next to it and the microphone. So if you hear it, you know there's a genuinely important announcement that's coming, and not the next level of Tetris. A glockenspiel can't be triggered accidentally. A simple system is often the best, which is why it's sometimes better to rely on gravity, levers, or a clockwork mechanism than something that needs batteries of electronics to function. Fire alarms are still quite often a damn great metal bell hit with a hammer. Foolproof and fireproof. Unless your hammer's on fire.

@simonh870

4 жыл бұрын

It is quirky and gets attention too. ;)

First I thought it meant “light” as in photons, then made me think Prot from K-pax 😅

10:58 - I thought he said advanced star gate design... cc showed something else though

This is a super cool video. Probably one of the best I have sen on KZread

Absolutely amazing.. thankyou so much.😀👍