Hello everyone! Apologies for the delay. I have no idea what happened, the usual, stuck at 0% processing.

@Kioselis

4 жыл бұрын

I love your channel, keep it up

@liveinfra6820

4 жыл бұрын

Fusion is just 30 yrs away !! This is the most expensive joke ever !!

@costaseco2078

4 жыл бұрын

Excellent info, excellent presentation, subscribed

@user-be4yc2vr5c

4 жыл бұрын

Do you still need rescueing from being held hostage making youtube vids?

@blaze1148

4 жыл бұрын

......only 50 years late with still no meaningful results.

Finally, not some generic fusion video and actually into the details on progress.

@ItsMeChillTyme

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I am really tired of just "pop sci" type channels in my YT. They are great for introductory things but sometimes you want more than just a gloss over of the concept. And I am too lazy and stupid to be reading papers daily.

@Steelrat1994

4 жыл бұрын

@@ItsMeChillTyme the introduction part of 'what fusion actually is' was still tiresome though.

@divertechnology

4 жыл бұрын

exactly!!! i wrote the same. what we really want to know is how it works not the marketing videos

@LittleolBitty

4 жыл бұрын

Looks like a tokemak concept of 30 years ago.

@belpylol9661

4 жыл бұрын

@@ItsMeChillTyme if your tired then why dont u just not watch them

Back when I was in university, I had a teacher who was working on the ITER project. If I recall correctly, he is one of the leading nuclear engineers in the world. Brilliant man, terrible teacher, though.

@shubhshah4192

3 жыл бұрын

Which University?

@RobCabreraCh

3 жыл бұрын

@@shubhshah4192 UANL from Mexico. His name is Dr Max Salvador Hernandez. Look him up.

@shubhshah4192

3 жыл бұрын

@@RobCabreraCh alright thanks!

@1239719

3 жыл бұрын

Esto va por ti Luis Raúl Sánchez

@RobCabreraCh

2 жыл бұрын

@@Alkalite It wasn't that we didn't understand that he was a very busy man working on an important project... it was much more the fact that he only showed up for like 3 or 4 classes throughout the year, and that he straight up failed everybody who wasn't a friend of his assistant. No homework, no assignments, no projects, just one test that he didn't even grade. That was the terrible part of terrible teacher there. Still, one of my top classes just because he was such a brilliant person.

Three things are certain in life: death, taxes and fusion being 30 years away!

@soaringvulture

4 жыл бұрын

Hell no. Fusion used to be 20 years away. It's getting away from us!

@warpspeed8305

4 жыл бұрын

Death 30 years away maybe. But why taxes?

@davisdf3064

4 жыл бұрын

@@warpspeed8305 It doesn't matter where you are, it doesn't matter what you do, some kind of organization will tax you

@geekjokes8458

4 жыл бұрын

and the James Webb telescope being 5 years away

@sebastianzaharia8558

4 жыл бұрын

@TheBlondie $5 per 1k people you say?.... *Hello im here to tax you 25% of your total earnings every year.*

1970s: Fusion power in 20 years! 1990s: Fusion power in 20 years! 2010s: Fusion power in 20 years! 2020s: Fusion power in 30 + ∞ years!!!

@nin1ten1do

4 жыл бұрын

ty exacly acurate tokamak wil never gona work!

@dm0065

4 жыл бұрын

I remember sitting in my physics class in 1992 and the professor telling us that they'd just reached the break-even point on a tokamak in Japan, so that's pretty much it, we'll have fusion power any minute

@cesteres

4 жыл бұрын

Idk the working principles seem primitive somehow

@firefox5926

4 жыл бұрын

god its going up not down lol

@adrianshingler9783

4 жыл бұрын

cesteres you are joking I take it? 😆😆😆

It's like literally the extreme of everything all rolled into one. Insane.

@GargaGaming

4 жыл бұрын

Sound good, doesn't work.

@tgmtf5963

4 жыл бұрын

We need AI first

@Azakadune

4 жыл бұрын

It’s an experimental prototype of a experimental prototype lol. It’s supposed to be extreme.

@aiGeis

4 жыл бұрын

@@tgmtf5963 AI is nothing but hype, with the most advanced versions currently being mere probability distribution calculators. Also, the theories of AI rapidly developing into a super intelligence are completely unsupported by our experience building complex (useful) AIs today, in addition to the lack of understanding of even human or mammalian intelligence as a whole. Really tiresome seeing people everywhere overhyping AI as if it will be the panacea of the human species.

@Steelrat1994

4 жыл бұрын

@@aiGeis Human intelligence is nothing but hype, with the most advanced versions.... and so on :) And AI is much more likely to cause a crisis that humanity won't be able to overcome than actually solving all our problems.

The scientists working on fusion today are like the guy who planted an acorn, knowing that he would never live to see the great oak tree it would eventually become. There is something noble about dedicating your life's work to a project of such difficulty and complexity, that you know you will not personally live to see it bear fruit.

@cmdrTremyss

4 жыл бұрын

thank you!

@FreelancerFreak

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, it's like the Gothic cathedrals the people who started construction knew they would be long dead before it would be finished, but relied on the belief that their great grand kids would lay the final bricks

@sanjosemike3137

4 жыл бұрын

@Raw Engineer I agree raw engineer. However, both of us know that controlled fusion is impossible on Earth. Sanjosemike (no longer in CA)

@georgegibson707

4 жыл бұрын

They are getting paid good wages and excellent conditions to play around with tech. What martyrs.

@C99631

4 жыл бұрын

It's like the death star. All that labour and materials, got blown up by a few people taking advantage of a small flaw.

6:46 Under neath the table chart He wrote : HELP! I'm a prisoner making KZread videos.

@logicplague

3 жыл бұрын

LOL

@andrikharismawibawa4245

3 жыл бұрын

Daheck bruh Lets report this chanel! Kiddin

We've seen exponential technology growth over the years. I like to hope I'll see this tech in my lifetime.

@diablo.the.cheater

4 жыл бұрын

With luck maybe, the problem with fusion is that experiments take 20-30 years to build and they can work or the cannot and in the case of that it doesn't work you need another 20-30 years to do another experiment, until we get it.

@PSXuploads

3 жыл бұрын

@@diablo.the.cheater no you didnt understand anything lol, there are various efforts in fusion tech being made by various organizations, the rest isnt waiting for Iter to finish

@angrymokyuu1951

3 жыл бұрын

There are those bullish on us being on the cusp of discovering the secret of immortality, so you might not be wrong.

@JB52520

3 жыл бұрын

I hope so too, but we've also seen an exponential increase in complexity, cost, and energy consumption. Between data centers and cryptocurrency, humanity could consume a Dyson sphere of energy and starve for more. The demand has no bounds, because using more resources increases competition, necessitating even more. It's never enough, yet chip performance is asymptotically approaching a limit, meaning the only thing we can do is compete for chips and use more energy. Also, at any time we could run out of one of a huge number of critical elements, and civilization would fall with our technology. It's getting really difficult to be an optimistic singularitarian.

@angrymokyuu1951

3 жыл бұрын

@@JB52520 The thing regarding limited quantities of elements/minerals is that the worst predictions tend to be based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the data: several critical elements have no reserves simply because they're byproducts of extracting other resources(sometimes even necessary byproducts) and thus not anything people actively look for, not to mention the term "proven reserves" strictly referring to what can economically be mined under current conditions(therefore excluding quite a bit of what's actually known to be there). But we do still need to get off of this rock sooner rather than later.

The most reliable aspect of fusion is that it will always be ready in 30 years

@IonorReasSpamGenerator

4 жыл бұрын

There are multiple fusion projects using different methods including ignition with lasers, compression hammers, etc. so even if ITER shows to be too technically difficult or successful but designs based from it cost-inefficient, there are also other companies including military-industrial complex which could use compact fusion reactors for submarines, solid-state lasers, and em accelerators... In any way, even if we got a successful fusion power plant design with comparable costs to modern fission plants today (~10 billion USD per power plant), it would take decades before we produce enough of them to make a significant difference on the environment when developing countries building cheap coal power plants like there is no tomorrow as they often don't have even money on modern Russian fission power plants...

@DrWhom

4 жыл бұрын

engineers do not do non-linear PDEs that well

@TerenceKearns

4 жыл бұрын

Ponds and Fleischman gave us this exactly 30 years ago.

@ytrew9717

4 жыл бұрын

@@IonorReasSpamGenerator "cheap coal power plants like there is no tomorrow **as they often don't have even money**" what if money wasn't the main issue?

@kimfucku8074

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, and there is a chance to get it 30 years earlier!

James Webb: I'm late, and massively over budget. ITER: hold my science.

@outsideworld76

4 жыл бұрын

It's true they are creating black holes on earth, the fiscal kind xD

@abhishekkumar55111

4 жыл бұрын

More like hold my economics

@spoonikle

4 жыл бұрын

ITER is on time.

@phildurre9492

4 жыл бұрын

Peter Houle except if it works it will be the final solution...

@Sevensixtytwo

4 жыл бұрын

Just check Finnish Olkiluoto 3 NPP construction.

Thank you so much for making this video, it's been great help and it's been wonderful to watch and it's clear how much time and effort is put into it.

You do a really great job on these. Great information very well explained with awesome visuals. This is exciting stuff!

Fusion in 30 years All of us : Ah shit here we go again.

@sownheard

4 жыл бұрын

Nuclear is already a thing. Thorium is already proven to work It just has to be done on a industry scale and the energy market didn't lock the information away this time Probably because Asian is also working on a thorium reactor

@Npmevlf

4 жыл бұрын

people in 1920s : we seen this one before

@anhduc0913

4 жыл бұрын

@@sownheard as long as oil company still make money, clean energy will never be a thing. Until a extinction level event happens or oil and coal runs dry. We are dead aither way.

@lebanemcarl68

4 жыл бұрын

anh duc oil will run out

@NetworKrakle

4 жыл бұрын

Sownheard Thorium is not Fusion though. The Thorium Reactor is a Fission Reactor.

What’s with the “Help, I’m a prisoner” thing at 6:40

@Post-Truth_Cephalopod

4 жыл бұрын

Interesting. Looks our guy here kidnapped a skilled editor and is forcing him to work.

@threesixtydegreeorbits2047

4 жыл бұрын

Evan Bailey 🤔

@raigervasi2070

4 жыл бұрын

Ye wtf

@ez7958

4 жыл бұрын

We got to help him !

@devrim-oguz

4 жыл бұрын

He is secretly giving a message, call the police!

Usually don't comment on any videos at all but this is just so well done. Your videos are all actually so well done it's amazing. Keep it up!

Who is watching this 30 years later and there is still no fusion reactor?

@jmitterii2

4 жыл бұрын

And that's why Germany, and why it will be sooner than 30 years, has it's own Wendelstein 7x that's already showing more promise (cheaper with less coils in its torsion design). All tests thus far are good. And one final test that if successful will demonstrate torsion design is very much required for efficient low cost construction and operation. It's 5 fold symmetry design is showing great promise, and changing to a 4 fold symmetry design will further reduce harmonics and concentrates particle confinement. Final test for Wendelstein 7x is this year. And so for looks very good. Helmholtz International Lab for Optimized Advanced Divertors in Stellarators (HILOADS)is scheduled to start in spring 2020 between Greifswald and the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Compact Toroidal Hybrid device in Auburn. So between Germany, Michigan, and Alabama they'll have a working demo model well before ITER. Of all places Alabama would be part of a the next technological revolution of humanity. Alabama, which recently featured a case study on 3rd world poverty conditions in the UN due to raw sewage water running through their streets/dirt roads. The irony speaks for itself.

@doomiesama4741

4 жыл бұрын

Yes

@blameyourself4489

4 жыл бұрын

Let's see what lasts longer. Fusion or KZread ...

@Kosake82

4 жыл бұрын

@@jmitterii2 Do you have any idea why the Wendelstein people didn't go for a four fold symmetry from the get-go?

@mkzhero

4 жыл бұрын

Leave the government to manage the project and sponsor science and you'll get the same results with any project (a very expensive nothing burger)

"Fusion in 30 years" Oh man where have I heard that one before...

@Garium87

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe we should stop advancing AI as well since there have been visioners in the 50 who claimed we would have human-like Robots by now.

@swank8508

4 жыл бұрын

Its taken us 150 years to FINALLY get solar power barely viable. Why do people complain when its taken us more than 60 for fusion

@D4PPZ456

4 жыл бұрын

the big difference is that the free market is at work on it now, which has the competitive advantage of not being the government!

@swank8508

4 жыл бұрын

@@D4PPZ456 ??? how does that have to do with complaining about 60 years

@NetAndyCz

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the AI segment is so funny. The computers are so much better at "hard" problems than humans. The chess, the go, those things only highly intelligent people were good at. But the Ai still struggles immensely with those easy tasks even really dumb humans can do, like learn a language. Or learn to do what to do in entirely new situation. Sure, people do not often choose the optimal solution, but they do not do really dumb stuff that often.

I remember writing a paper on practical fusion within 20 years... 35 years ago. And honestly now, I do not believe it will every happen. It isn't just establishing a self-sustaining fusion reaction, but being able to extract more energy from it than is required to fuel and maintain it... Not seeing any signs of that anytime soon. We need to be making LFTRs right now. You know. Technology that already works and is 20 to 50 times more efficient than current thermal and fast reactor designs.

We may have fusion before the James Webb Telescope launches.

@84Supervisor

4 жыл бұрын

I have higher hopes for James Webb! =_= Almost made me sad here

@maxgb2000real

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao

You should punish the slave you are keeping in your basement, he tried to get some help at 6:33

@GewelReal

4 жыл бұрын

what do you mean

@21335186z

4 жыл бұрын

I couldn't see it because my TV is only HD. Had to go into full screen mode.

@thisflyingpotato4227

4 жыл бұрын

@@21335186z How do you watch KZread on TV ? It only goes up to x2 speed whereas on computer you can go to x3, x4, x5, x6 and beyond even if after x5 it become less understandable.. Going on "setting > speed > x2" at each video with the remote would drive me crazy

@Toby704

4 жыл бұрын

@@thisflyingpotato4227 watch videos at normal speed like most people?

@thisflyingpotato4227

4 жыл бұрын

@@Toby704 Normal speed was useful before youtube music was a thing, now you can have normal speed on youtube music and the 2x on video with voice (or faster if you use plugins) If I'm going to waste my time on youtube, at least I want to do it efficiently And I genuinely don't understand, why watch video on normal speed if we can get the same amount of data faster ? The only reason I can think of would be to have more "watch-time" on a certain video and it may help the channel, but I feel like it's not the reasoning behind everyone who keep the normal speed

Dude your visuals are amazing, this video was so clean

@san4os94

4 жыл бұрын

thanks to the prisoner that edits all of this for him.

This is such high-quality content, can't wait for this channel to blow up

LOL. This is part of my required viewing for one of my classes this semester in uni. I was already subscribed to this channel, how fun!

Does anyone else notice the note at like 6:35 "Note: HELP, I'm a prisoner making KZread videos"?

@SufficientDaikon

4 жыл бұрын

No, you're the only one with eyes.

Remember 30 years ago, when we were going to have fusion in 30 years? Remember _60_ years ago, when we were going to have fusion in 30 years?

@HansLemurson

4 жыл бұрын

Those 30 years are a renewable resource and can be recycled again and again! If used carefully, not only will we have fusion 30 years from now, but so will our children.

@hafeexius

4 жыл бұрын

Warp drives will be a reality before fusion reactors.

@MacXpert74

4 жыл бұрын

I was going to say the same thing. The prediction always seems to be 'In 30 years ...' Seems like it will just never become reality and remain a pipe dream.

@VerisimilitudeDude

4 жыл бұрын

Remember 13,000 years ago when we actually had fusion power but our civilization got wiped out?

@taicanium

4 жыл бұрын

@@VerisimilitudeDude Niaga esir liu ew. Su rebemer srethaf rou.

"The power of the sun in the palm of my hand!"

@incognitotorpedo42

4 жыл бұрын

lol.

@adonissherlock

3 жыл бұрын

Famous last words

Whoa! Great videos with amazing animations . U have gained a new sub! :)

I’m 75, and have listened to “fusion in 30 years” for as long as I can remember.

@MrSaemichlaus

4 жыл бұрын

Just as fun as flat-earthers (claiming to be) trying to reach the edge.

@richard--s

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrSaemichlaus Sure. It's no fun. But "working fusion reactors in 30 years" is a constant through the last 50 years.

@IsomerSoma

4 жыл бұрын

Don't worry you can pretend as if it is finished in 30 years. You probably wont be there to deny or confirm it by then. So basically you can tell yourself: we finally did it.

@richard--s

4 жыл бұрын

... didn't do it.

6:34 Note: HELP I'm a prisoner making KZread videos. This guy is pretty good, hope he serving a life imprisonment.

This channel is REALLY good. Thorough information. 💪🏻

Man, your videos are purely insane. You will get to 1M subs in no time.

The video quality is better than big media corporations👌

*Turn on captions* "It is the most powerful machine ever built Batman" Me: Wow... Knowledge...

Dude... your animations are absolutely incredible. Stunningly good work. Great research, high quality, and very well presented. Can you do a video on mining asteroids, mining the moon (for water), or a cislunar propellant depot?

fusion is going to always be 30 years away right up until it very suddenly isn't

man, you deserve so much more audience, its literaly criminal

@blaze1148

4 жыл бұрын

.....umm....not really.

@ousarlxsfjsbvbg8588

4 жыл бұрын

james83925 what are you talking about

@whatadag3748

4 жыл бұрын

‘Literally’ criminal? In which country? Or were you not being literal

@ulture

4 жыл бұрын

@@whatadag3748 6:40

@unnamedchannel1237

4 жыл бұрын

I don't think you understand the word "Literally". It is definitely not a criminal offense to have a low audience count.

Tony Stark already built this in a cave.

@auramaster2068

4 жыл бұрын

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@tackontitan

4 жыл бұрын

Able cave this tony already in With a stark of builds!

@serkanozkani

4 жыл бұрын

According to news, Tony Stark might be in the Chinese cave! Because we heard that China already successfully running it at 27 million degree in the core of tokomak !

@midgetman4206

4 жыл бұрын

@@serkanozkani but how long can it sustain itself, that's the important part

@mvmlego1212

4 жыл бұрын

@@serkanozkani -- What's its Q value?

Nice video and impressive animations skills! Since I saw this question arising a lot recently: ITER's director announced in a talk in May 2020 that Covid-19 had caused no delay so far on the progress of ITER.

Super cool! I'm working there (ITER) and your video is super interesting :) to understand everything much better

We may have fusion before the Star Citizen launches.

@happywhale1786

4 жыл бұрын

i wanna my donate back.

@CeesaX

4 жыл бұрын

I did not expect to find a fellow gamer commenting on this video. But I expect Star Citizen to beat fusion by at least ten years. Maybe as many as twelve. :/

@ArseneGray

4 жыл бұрын

@@CeesaX many gamers are geeks and nerds who really like obscure sci fi shit and science videosI would rather be suprised if no gamers were present in the comments.

@DonVigaDeFierro

4 жыл бұрын

@@ArseneGray Come on. Gamers have to hide their power level anywhere. They are truly the most oppressed group!!

@CountingStars333

4 жыл бұрын

What will come first, fusion or Star citizen?

Great! The first presentation of fusion research including ITER (where most of the money goes) without mere advertising but also not denying the potential. Not sure if either is the cathedral or pyramid of our time but I guess it might come close.

awesome video man! quality is outstanding!

Fusion power in 30 years every single day for the last 60 years. Today, still 30 years away. I'm so excited, I can hardly wait.

That thing looks like something straight out of the iron man movie

6:39 note i'm a prisioner making youtube videos lol

@tusharip

4 жыл бұрын

I don't get it

@__mk_km__

4 жыл бұрын

@@tusharip Look closely, at the bottom of STATS table

@sdhetan3hetsa

4 жыл бұрын

What the hell

@tusharip

4 жыл бұрын

China

@keithscott1957

4 жыл бұрын

Working in a chain gang on a render farm is tough.

I am really impressed by your content sir. I've read the (About) section and you've mentioned that these whole videos are completely produced by you. You definitely greatly motivated me. Thank you for the content and wish you all the best. 🙏

Great video! It would be interesting if you made a second one explaining the heating systems.

Honestly, while the chase for fusion power is great, it'd be far more practical if we went with Thorium-fission reactors as you covered in one of your previous videos. The amount of advancement we could make would open up so much more possibility for humanity as a whole. Good stuff as always man.

Feel like if this was the 60s and we were competing with the Russians we’d have this done by now...

@jonatancordoba7984

4 жыл бұрын

True. I you look at history, the greatest technologies (or Its foundations) were achieved during war times.

@fredd298

4 жыл бұрын

@@jonatancordoba7984 background radiation levels have increased to the point when C14 levels are changed since WWII

@rixille

4 жыл бұрын

@@jonatancordoba7984 Competition brings innovation out for sure.

@urgandma

4 жыл бұрын

@@rixille competition... And existential threats.

@kandysman86

4 жыл бұрын

Lol, we were competing with the CCCP for this tech. The ability for the scientist to convince the idiots in charge to keep funding this, outlasted the Soviets.

Projects like these keep people at work and economies run. We need more of such!

Amazing video, great animations, explanations, and information

"Fusion is 30 years away" has become code for "we don't know WTF we're doing."

@johnkessels87

4 жыл бұрын

Romana Winburn nope. Answers to questions resulting in more questions

@PaganShagger

4 жыл бұрын

considering it took nearly a decade just to build wiring for this thing, I can see why this is taking so damn long.

@victorbourguignon6897

4 жыл бұрын

Oh they know what they are attempting to do, its just you dont attempt to recreate the energy souce that powers a star and maintain it everyday.

@petergoestohollywood382

4 жыл бұрын

Nah, it means we exactly know what we’re doing.. it’s just not working nonetheless.

@MarcusAu3relio

4 жыл бұрын

Cut the scientists some slack... They are doing their best, believe me.

When you have super cold magnets near the point of heat, you have an impossible situation. Near 0 kelvin right at where you want to generate the heat of fusion. Thus most of your energy will always be making the magnets cold to superconducting temperature near where you want the center of the sun's heat. So it will always be 30 years away because you are working against yourself to the max.

Can't wait that long for something this cool and revolutionary.

nice video... thx for the detail in it!

It is always 30 years until fusion is ready to go! :'D

5:18 That's wrong. The magnetic field is not there to put the atoms together, it is only there to prevent the atoms to touching the wall. You don't want to cool them down. It's the heat, that makes a collision much more likely.

@Oscar4u69

4 жыл бұрын

he said the right thing, you misunderstood what he said

as usual, outstanding presentation.

Great Scott!!!

We actually should spend some more resources on this project. So far it went through so much politics and savings. For real. The whole project have so far cost less than one Olympic Games.

@veduci22

4 жыл бұрын

Compared to the annual defense budget of USA ($650 billion) 80+billion Euros (2-3 billion annually) for the whole project is pocket change...

@gregorymalchuk272

4 жыл бұрын

@@veduci22 I want spending on foreskin regeneration technology.

@JohnJohansen2

4 жыл бұрын

@John Buick For no gain? You have no real knowledge about the subject, do you? Btw. I was thinking on ITER only, not all fusion research. Which takes place in lots of different countries and different universities.

@JohnJohansen2

4 жыл бұрын

@John Buick I repeat: You have no real knowledge about the subject, John. That's obvious!

@JohnJohansen2

4 жыл бұрын

@John Buick I just don't understand, why people without any knowledge, feels justified in making statements about subjects they so obviously know absolutely nothing about. I rest my case.

Fusion is the energy of the future and will most likely continue to be for the foreseeable.

Very nicely explained video :)

Great report. Thanks.

It was in the early 80's when I had to produce parts that ended up in the JET Tokamak. At that time we thought it at least takes another 30 years to get it to work. But what did we know then!

@esecallum

4 жыл бұрын

What shape is the Sun? What Shape is ITER? That is why ITER will NEVER work. Its just a White Elephant sucking up all the funds.

@mrdesmit6038

4 жыл бұрын

@@esecallum what?

@railgap

4 жыл бұрын

@@esecallum Wow, that sounds like some solid science right there. You should be a plasma physicist, you microcephalic walnut.

@esecallum

3 жыл бұрын

@BulletTraj What?

Boyfriend: "Babe, you ready?" Fusion:"Just a minute honey. . . . . ill be ready soon" Boyfriend:"No probs" * takes off shoes, turns on kettle, tv on, selects movie* "I'll be in the lounge"

I'm glad found this channel

Animation really brilliant 😍....and video really informative also...

That’s the first time I’ve ever heard the unit “megaAmps,” which is surprisingly the thing that made it hit home just what I’m looking at here. Yikes.

@tavianarmstrong974

4 жыл бұрын

i never even knew tesla was a unit of measure before this

@ValentineC137

4 жыл бұрын

Tavian Armstrong that’s mostly because it’s a weird unit to describe the power of magnets, the only other place I heard it was with MRI machines

@Carewolf

4 жыл бұрын

@@tavianarmstrong974 Well, we usually use millitesla, because a single tesla is rather insane.

@ValentineC137

4 жыл бұрын

@Amused maybe, just shooting blind here. just calling a million amps, a million amps?

*30 years ago* Human: Fusion in 30 years, we almost there boys *2019* Human: Ah shit, here we go again

Our host did not mention the NUMBER ONE *reason* WHY the ITER fusion reactor will likely succeed, whereas all others have Come Up Short. ITER, being phenomenally physically LARGE, establishes the _possibility_ of a HUGE *cross sectional area* for the Plasma. Where Nuclear Fusion is concerned, there are THREE volumetric criteria. Of the recognized THREE criterion, only *two* have been varied experimentally, in a large count of ways. The remaining "frontier" is *cross sectional area,* and ITER stands a good chance of FINALLY, and significantly, exploring THAT variable. You see, the LARGER the *cross sectional area* of the confined Plasma, the LONGER it takes for the released Energy to ESCAPE (from the confinement zone.) The LONGER this process takes, then the level of HEAT (within the confinement zone) climbs HIGHER, which contributes to the possibility of keeping the Fusion Reaction GOING, perhaps long enough that the Fusion Reaction will, hopefully, become SELF SUSTAINING.

Cool video. Just earned a sub.

Man! If we just employ 1/10th of this energy and resources to: -Reform all legislation that holds back the implementation of decentralized energy production. -Do a educational reform to decentralize education. -Use the resources to the preservation and expansion of local forests. -Decentralize government so that our most priming issue would be literally how to build better cities. Ahh... A lot of IFs!

@antred11

4 жыл бұрын

I assert that we have the resources to do all of these things AND pursue nuclear fusion tech at the same time. What we're lacking (for a lot of the points you listed) is the will to do it, not resources.

Can’t wait to beat Broly once fusion becomes possible!

Thanks for providing the current record for efficiency. It's a stat that I've looked for for years, but I never found a straight answer until now. (For anyone who didn't catch it: the JET experiment achieved 16MW output with 24MW input.)

amazing animations bro

"Complains about fusion being 30 years away.", "Also complains that people are making progress on fusion." I think some people want fusion to fail so they can just keep using that outdated boomer joke.

@electroflame6188

4 жыл бұрын

Nah a few of them are shilling for thorium

@antred11

4 жыл бұрын

@@electroflame6188 Why "shilling" for thorium? Honest question here because I've heard a lot of people say that thorium would be a cleaner, cheaper and safer alternative to uranium / plutonium based fission reactors.

"Why is fusion taking such a long time?" Because there's more money in coal and oil and those who have plenty of it hiss at the very mention of the words "free" and "energy" put together. + all the other reasons mentioned in the video.

@realblindpenguin

4 жыл бұрын

But fusion is not free. You still need something to "burn".

@midgetman4206

4 жыл бұрын

No, it's the fact that fusion energy might not even be possible. It's like stocks, it's very risky to dump so much money into something that just flops

@shadowwolfmandan

4 жыл бұрын

There is no such thing as free as it still requires a fuel source. I look forward to the advancement of said technology, but suspect we're still several scientific breakthroughs away from it actually working.

@gabriel300010

4 жыл бұрын

@Raw Engineer because having a great quantity of generators requires a great quantity of finite materials, whilst a high power fusion reactor could be potentially less resource intensive. also, we would get more helium, and helium is always fun.

@VisualJoey

4 жыл бұрын

@@midgetman4206 That's what they said about going to the moon and suddenly there was a political space race, resulting in a lot of breakthroughs. Same thing for wars. However, some things (climate -> continued existence of earth e.g.) somehow aren't as important as (an outrageous) example: the US their national defence budget. Which, for a fact, is estimated around $1.254 trillion (The Nation, 2019) --> $1,254,000,000,000 !! Or Trumps announced military spending of $750 billion (The Balance, 2019) --> still $750,000,000,000 !!

This is a very good video. Very concise and informative, well done! Just a couple of things to point out, the most powerful reaction we've achieved should be matter anti-matter collisions rather than fusion. Secondly, I don't quite get that table next to The Sun. What is the orbital speed relative to?

Thanks, great explanation....

shit, I thought the running Gag with the fusion Energy was 25 years.

"Cave Johnson, we're done here"

Beautiful graphics.

This channel is insane

we really need to invest into molten salt reactors in the meantime. much better solution than keeping coal, destroying forests for solar panel arrays, etc.

@AgentJRock805

4 жыл бұрын

Bruno gets it!

@DonVigaDeFierro

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but people still think that "Nucular = Bad!!!".

@spindrift2009

3 жыл бұрын

@@DonVigaDeFierro it’s because people are, in general, not so smart. That includes all politicians, because they are largely average people themselves. The ‘smartest’ people are working at technology companies. All of them.

@Subject Zero Science I'm new to this channel and I'm impressed by the visual effects and not being afraid of going into details. However, some errors crept in. 1. At 3:03, you say that fusion is the most powerful reaction after fission, but at 6:21 you correct yourself by comparing energy released per nucleon (first noted by @Matthew Elvey ). 2. At 5:18, you claim that magnetic field is used to put atoms as close as can be done. However, magnetic field is used to confine plasma to prevent it from touching the walls and cooling down. Overcoming Coulomb barrier is achieved by giving the ions high kinetic energy, which in turn is achieved by heating plasma (first noted by @OpenGL4ever ). 3. At 7:24, the text states "16 MW input", but audio states "16 MW output", which is correct. However, the text at 4:09 is correct (first noted by @Matej Gagyi ). 4. At 8:23, the text states "magnetic temperature", but you certainly mean "the temperature of the magnets" (first noted by @Younes Layachi ). 5. At 11:39, you use the same picture of crystal lattice as at 11:00 for YBCO, which shows 4 different types of atoms, while niobium-tin superconductor is obviously made from two types of atoms (noted by me). It would be helpful for less knowledgeable viewers if those errors were corrected. Still, this video clearly stands out from cheesy popular science videos which just skim over the surface. Keep up the good work :)

@jiehou2960

4 жыл бұрын

Also, YBCO is brittle not because it's a crystal, but because it's an oxide. Many metals are ductile but they are all crystals.

I remember drawing this Fusion tomohawk machine for art when I was in 9th grade 9 years ago. Everyone thought I was weird. It’s really funny that you said 30^n years lol cause they always say it’s 30 years away apparently historically.

40 years ago, fusion was 20 years away. 20 years ago, fusion was 20 years away. So it seems fitting that now it's 30 years away.

*Fusion project start by 2020* Covid-19: How about no?

@DerPlasma

4 жыл бұрын

The director of ITER gave a talk recently where he announced that there are no delays so far due to Covid-19

@UltraNyan

4 жыл бұрын

Covid was engineered by chine and CERN to halt ITER. There is a power-struggle to stop EU union from getting stronger.

Fusion has been 30 years away for my entire life. I'm 54,

I first read about fusion reactors in Reader's Digest 40 years ago ! A promising technology then, and always !

Wow nice .. Blender animation dude 😎 ... Amazing 🙏👏🙏

The question isn't, why is Fusion 30 years away? The question is why is Fusion always 30 years away for the last 30 years, at least?

@zshadows

4 жыл бұрын

Optimism.

@Chizzy941

4 жыл бұрын

Three key factors: plasma physics is incredibly complex - so much so that in the past we didn't even know what we didn't know, making plasma control very difficult. We now have a good grasp of this and are very confident in plasma control. The second factor is that every time that's been said, funding bodies have cut funding citing the fact that fusion is just around the corner as a reason to cut funding... go figure. Thirdly, by and large it isn't fusion scientists saying that - its the flipping useless science media crying wolf anytime anything happens.

@HadzabadZa

4 жыл бұрын

@@Chizzy941 Researching fusion is too expensive, but bailing out banks for 29$ trillion is ok. I'm angry.

@electroflame6188

4 жыл бұрын

@@Chizzy941 Yeah but they made a wrong prediction before, therefore any and all predictions about it are wrong and fusion power will never be completed. /s

@iankirkwood2772

4 жыл бұрын

Ah yes the chewbacca defense

I give it a 50/50 chance we build a Dyson sphere around the sun before we get viable fusion on earth....lol

@raimohoft1236

4 жыл бұрын

... and that year the new berlin airport "BER" will also open its gates for the first time. 😂😂😂😈😈😈😋😋😋

@lantrick

3 жыл бұрын

If man was meant to fly he would been born with wings.

I love the cave Johnson bit!

Argon energy in 30 years Doomguy: I’m ready let me in there

Note: HELP. I am a prisoner making KZread videos help this man out wtf

8:23 "magnetic temperature" 😂

@Hexanitrobenzene

4 жыл бұрын

He obviously meant "temperature of magnets", so I would classify it as a small error.

Pretty sure "nucleons" should be "nuclei" at 3:14 in the context you're using it. In any case, it's a nice video. good job.

So I'm at work and that intro scared the absolutely hell out of me