So I just learned that the space/time universe continuum is covered with hardwood flooring.

@kellygoodine9944

4 жыл бұрын

Just as Einstein predicted!

@lreaderneedham5973

4 жыл бұрын

Not sure, but that could be pine flooring, not hard wood, does that change the nature of reality?

@HollandOates

4 жыл бұрын

Vinyl flooring is still 20 years away

@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164

4 жыл бұрын

In one of the Alternate Universes it's still Linoleum.

@alainmoran8560

4 жыл бұрын

That's not hardwood, look at the grain ... it's laminate flooring mate :D

I’m 62 and hope I can see the day this becomes a reality

@shawnnoyes4620

4 жыл бұрын

I am 54. We will both be six foot under before that happens.

@shawnnoyes4620

4 жыл бұрын

I am assuming we both live long lives, too.

@robertwu5687

4 жыл бұрын

2050 year , it will be builted in our country.

@ZeloticMemes

4 жыл бұрын

@Donald Kasper then what is a fusion nuclear bomb?

@ZeloticMemes

4 жыл бұрын

@Donald Kasper What do you think the Tsar bomba was LOL

For anyone who actually follows the physics, it's clear that this method is a standout. Apart from the other HB projects, this is the only one that proposes electricity vs heat as the output, and, to my knowledge, the only one at all that proposes achieving fusion without heat "in." No carbon. No radiation. No heat. Just electricity and helium as outputs. Clearly this idea requires orders of magnitude more funding.

I am 70..... I've been hearing this for the last 50 years

@theultimatereductionist7592

2 жыл бұрын

Then also put more hope & energy & money into longevity escape velocity or longevity extension research like the Foresight Institute. Extending longevity & sustained fusion power are INFINITELY more NECESSARY, IMPORTANT, & PRACTICAL-DO-ABLE than unnecessary fantasy bullshit like colonies on the moon or Mars.

@gusgone4527

2 жыл бұрын

People have been looking for The Grail for 2000 years. Fusion has some way to go as a mythical goal.

@edreusser4741

2 жыл бұрын

So have I, but that doesn't mean I have either lost hope.

@anthonynixon6193

2 жыл бұрын

I’m 76 not in my life time.

@m-705

2 жыл бұрын

Fusion power is 50 years away.

Had they said something like "we're getting test results within 20-40% of what we expect to see in a final product", that would be believable - to say it's billions of the more than the predictions simply means that your predictions were way off and there's something fundamentally wrong with your initial premise...

@bramkivenko9912

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like marketing. But whatever

@Isambardify

4 жыл бұрын

I think it was billions of times more effective than they expected, but presumably from an incredibly low base, like they expected to generate a billionth of a microwatt with this set up but actually it generated a whole microwatt!

@Druwoods

4 жыл бұрын

That's what I thought as well. Seems like a pretty big margin of error.

@derpionderpson1424

4 жыл бұрын

Well we are kind of trying to harness the sun... We can’t exactly just give it full power and see what happens...

@ronusa1976

4 жыл бұрын

How does our Sun work? Safire project might be the answer? kzread.info/dash/bejne/jHZ90MqJdqm8n8o.html

In my unit on nuclear chemistry, I talk to my students about aneutronic H-1 /B-11 based nuclear fusion as a power generating scheme that requires much more stringent conditions than the deuterium-tritium fuel cycle for tokamaks. Moreover, my understanding of current fusion methodologies is that they form large amounts of neutron radiation which, not only robs energy of those systems, but also creates a significant safety hazard. I find all of this intriguing as this Australian company may have gotten around this problem. May I wish them well in their endeavors.

@pennyoflaherty1345

2 жыл бұрын

* What will they think of Next ? *. May This Co be AUSTRALIAN BACKED & NOT FOREIGN OWNED !! All profits exiting stage left. Thankyou for such encouraging reporting , our ’ Main media ‘ out of touch . …..

Regarding the clickbait title: No, we have not finally nailed nuclear fusion.

@ratahasaranamananahasapasa7950

4 жыл бұрын

thanks i'll move on. :)

@iamscoutstfu

4 жыл бұрын

Yes we have. We have produced more power than we put in. That's huge.

@GinodiFonzo

4 жыл бұрын

@@iamscoutstfu No we haven't, and no we haven't, and it isn't.

@iamscoutstfu

4 жыл бұрын

@@GinodiFonzo Yes we have and yes it is.

@GinodiFonzo

4 жыл бұрын

@@iamscoutstfu Um, no. A reaction lasting a billionth of a second that took weeks to set up is not "nailing nuclear fusion". Moreover, you'll note (thanks for the link to the article) the very specific claim that the energy it took to ignite the fuel for the reaction was less than the energy produced. I'm sure you can figure out on your own, that igniting the fuel was not the only aspect of this experiment that required "energy" - not by a long shot.

When they have actual hardware and it’s working, that’s a breakthrough.

@J_A_W_

4 жыл бұрын

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendelstein_7-X There is and it is.

@J_A_W_

4 жыл бұрын

@Donald Kasper When they last tested it in 2018 they had quite a bit more them that. Check this article for a nice overview if you are interested. newatlas.com/wendelstein-7-x-nuclear-fusion-records/57394 (it's one of the sources linked on the wiki enty I sent to you) Have a great day. :)

@psycronizer

3 жыл бұрын

@@J_A_W_ ITER...thats the one that will take the win...

Wow, the quality of your videos has come a long way! It seems your always looking at ways to improve. The effort is appreciated and I'm looking forward to more content.

Thanks for the overview. Exciting new tech for sure. But in answer to your question at the end, almost any form of fusion will still require grid distribution, and the cost of building-level solar/battery storage is likely to soon be less than the cost of electrical distribution alone in many areas.

First video of yours I've seen, well done. No filler and very informative but also not intimidating 👍

Extremely clear and concise. Thank You Sir.

Whenever anyone says "could this be a breakthrough..." you know what follows is definitely NOT a breakthrough.

@TasteMyStinkholeAndLikeIt

4 жыл бұрын

@LICKHER&STICKHERINTHEPINK &OTHERPLACES Ditto

@sheridandoor1378

4 жыл бұрын

TasteMyStinkhole, "things to think about during quarantine, for a $1,000, Alex"...

@AliasUndercover

4 жыл бұрын

It might move it up to 10 years away for the next 50 years, though.

@TasteMyStinkholeAndLikeIt

4 жыл бұрын

@@AliasUndercover Or 2 weeks away for the next 50 years

@Steelmage99

4 жыл бұрын

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines

This new pipe dream is only forever ten years away, twice as good! I'm waiting to invest in the first group that will promise a working product forever five years away!

Credit where credit is due: That intro and speaking on a swinging object is awesome!

A fantastically well informed video, I’m binge watching everything

Best thing about nuclear fusion: It produces helium, so we can fill as many balloons as we want!

@robb233

4 жыл бұрын

You mean there's another use? ;)

@CUBETechie

4 жыл бұрын

Helium cooled fission reactors or Tig welding.

@grindupBaker

4 жыл бұрын

Oh that's just great ! Last thing we want is this fusion-balloon industry & their Deniers using Earth's atmosphere as a free dumping ground for their balloon waste & heating the planet with blindingly-coloured balloon reflections like Austin Powers 1960s groovy yet again & filling our oceans with latex.

@shockwave326

4 жыл бұрын

youtube search Safire Project low energy nuclear reactions,,,, the way of the future our sun is electric not atomic

@phillipkennedy3444

4 жыл бұрын

@@grindupBaker hahahahahahahahahaha

The only thing more valuable than having a correct answer is having a correct method for finding it. Thank you for sharing this stuff. I now feel updated.

I had to re-watch the intro, didn't hear what you were saying because I was too busy thinking about how much effort it must have taken to match up the swaying effect, and how well done it is!

Your opening graphic had me rocking side to side with you. I couldn't even help it....hypnotic...

Student of fusion science + researcher here, there's a lot of reasons to be excited about fusion right now, but HB11 is not one of them. The report you cite is interesting, but is orders upon orders of magnitude away from being actually useful as an energy source. Modern tokamaks are less than one order of magnitude away, and the advent of new materials for forming the magnetic fields (high temperature superconductors) allow for a doubling or more of the field, while fusion power scales with magnetic field to the fourth power. Tokamaks (and to a lesser degree stellerators) are the only well-understood fusion designs that are anywhere near forming a power plant. The SPARC/ARC projects (using these new magnets, but otherwise being almost entirely non-speculative in their design) are the only ones other than ITER which show as energy-positive, with SPARC being built in just a few years (

@anthonycavallaro9941

4 жыл бұрын

One thing I'll say for more clarity, is that the most common fusion reaction is D + T, the two heavier isotopes of hydrogen. This is because it produces quite high output energy, has a high probability of occurring, and occurs at relatively low temperatures. proton + Boron 11 (the reaction in the video) is interesting, because it doesn't produce any neutrons. The neutron produced by D + T is bad, in that fast neutrons are dangerous if you're standing inside of the vacuum vessel. It means that the reactor must be shielded, which costs money and makes it bigger, but you can still stand in the same room. It also does activate the vacuum vessel, meaning it becomes radioactive over time. This is the only 'nuclear waste' of the reaction, but it's only radioactive on the scale of ~100 years and not millenia, the amount of radiation is much smaller than nuclear waste, and it's a solid that can't be used to produce nuclear weapons. You can just put it in a lead-lined room and tell people not to walk in, it can't leak into water supplies etc. proton + Boron 11 is aneutronic, meaning there's no neutron produced by the reaction. So there's literally 0 radioactivity involved, which is great and why people look at it! It does require temperatures in the billions of degrees, rather than ~100 million, but lasers can do it. The neutron is good, though, because you can actually get energy from it. Nuclear power works because neutrons bounce around in a material and give it their energy as heat. proton Boron 11 makes fast Helium ions, and we have no idea how to get energy from them. There are some ideas, but they've never been shown to my knowledge. I support science in other fusion technologies, but we need to build a plant NOW and tokamaks are the only technology that comes close, and we have reason to believe they can get there in the imminent future.

@Amuzic_Earth

4 жыл бұрын

@@anthonycavallaro9941 Thank you for illuminating us.

@aion2177

4 жыл бұрын

thanks :)

@JustHaveaThink

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Anthony. Very useful information. Much appreciated. All the best. Dave

@KateeAngel

4 жыл бұрын

With the toxic mining of solar panel components... There is no ideal answer, unfortunately

Looks like woo, for now. "A billion times more than predicted" means diddly if what was predicted was a trillionth of break even...I work in the field. We all hope someone gets it, but we've also all seen things come and go that turned out be a lot less worthwhile than the marketing team said. An indication of "woo" is that very statement with no reference or qualifications - it's meaningless. We see examples all over in alt-energy in particular - always some breathless announcement that a solar cell tech or battery tech is "several times more efficient' due to some breakthrough - but it's never mentioned that it's more efficient than something so terrible no one uses it - doubling efficiency of a solar cell to 2% from a tech that was 1% means little when silicon cells in the field (including on my roof) easily hit 14% - for example. Compared to what is a worthwhile question in separating the real from the starry-eyed wishful thinkers desiring funds. There's no way to tell with this one so far...but Bayes would say - show me the money.

@MillyRose539

4 жыл бұрын

Wow. So in other words, a scam?

@DCFusor

4 жыл бұрын

@@MillyRose539 Just can't be sure. It has the signature of one, which _might_ be accidental. I myself believe that the current funded approaches suffer in some ways by putting the input energy into heat - many degrees of freedom - is potentially wasteful vs a directed collision kind of method - just collide things head on - which this is closer to, but that's a personal bias (borne out by some work in my lab). I was just pointing out that the pitch is meaningless as stated without some reference and some real data. On what was that prediction based? It was obviously wrong if they're telling the truth! Let's see that envelope with the scribbles!

@Chyrre

4 жыл бұрын

Well, good on them. Usually things turn out a billion times worse than expected for me

@rexmann1984

4 жыл бұрын

@@DCFusor what's your thoughts on thorium power. Are we closer to it than fusion. If so what is the hold up. All the pro thorium guys don't seem to have an anti thorium adversary. Other than regulations.

@esecallum

4 жыл бұрын

big pharma uses this kind of math to promote their crappy side effects laden drugs.

Clearly explained, and interesting. Thank you.

Another really interesting and informative video. Thanks.

this just in: practical nuclear fusion in 20 years.

@BlackTomorrowMusic

4 жыл бұрын

I think they finally got it down to 15 years. So fusion will be only 15 years away for the next 50 years.

@apuuvah

4 жыл бұрын

To quote Frank Drebin (Naked Gun): "He's got 50% chance of survival. Only, there's about 10% chance of that."

@Gomlmon99

4 жыл бұрын

No one in the fusion community is saying fusion on the grid in 15 years. A more reasonable estimate is about 2060-2070.

@BlackTomorrowMusic

4 жыл бұрын

@@Gomlmon99 By 2070 they'll be saying "any day, now." And it'll be "any day now" for another 50 years. Yes, I know no one's saying 15 years. That's the joke.

@Gomlmon99

4 жыл бұрын

-p Catalano I just don’t really get it cause no one in the fusion community ever says 15 or 20 years. It’s just youtubers who say that.

correction: a petawatt is an enormous amount of power, not of energy

@maverickdisco4036

4 жыл бұрын

Quite correct, I was working on PW lasers but only 500J energy.

@weatheranddarkness

4 жыл бұрын

@@maverickdisco4036 how does that work?

@gottafly2day

4 жыл бұрын

@@weatheranddarkness Power is a measure of the rate of energy transfer. A familiar example is energy to light a bulb. A 100W bulb uses energy at a rate of 100W. If the bulb is on for 1 hour then it uses 100WH (Watt-Hours) of energy in total. Since 1WH = 3600 Joules, 100WH = 360KJ. Using the same total amount of energy (360KJ) we can power a 360KW bulb for one second, or 360GW bulb (or laser) for 1us. Assuming 100% efficiency a 1PW laser can be powered for 500 femtoseconds (500 x 10^-15 seconds) using a total of 500J of energy. -- Updated to correct dumb math error.

@maverickdisco4036

4 жыл бұрын

weatheranddarkness This document gives a lot of info on high power lasers around the world. I was involved in the Orion Laser but have been to many others around the world. It’s a very interesting field and the document is worth a read. www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/D85E3F002CBFC286C08076E127BB5F5C/S2095471919000367a.pdf/petawatt_and_exawatt_class_lasers_worldwide.pdf

@hansjorgkunde3772

4 жыл бұрын

@@gottafly2day While correct its not understandable for most people. Energy is power over time, and these Laser pulses have extremely short duration. So the energy in it is considerable small. High power but short duration.

first video i saw on this channel led me tosubscription. congartulations for the good presentation

Elimination of the "steam engine" required to produce electrical energy is THE KEY to practical fusion power. Proponents of the tokamak style reactors do not mention that the energy produced is in the form of fast neutrons, which heat a stainless steel cooling jacket, and the resultant steam runs a turbine. The problem is, the neutrons ablate and blister the steel, requiring its replacement at intervals- and that steel is now HIGHLY radioactive- tons and tons of it. It needs to be sequestered, just like the fuel rods from a fission reactor. This new tech is a major step to the real solution.

@shawnnoyes4620

3 жыл бұрын

Fission Suppressed Fusion Hybrid based off MIT ARC would be awesome.

@WielkiKaleson

3 жыл бұрын

Not really. The neutrons have to be captured in a lithium blanket in order to regenerate tritium. Of course, some unwanted neutron captures will happen in the first wall. That is why some elements (eg. cobalt) are not allowed to be used there. The only acceptable design is such that you don't need to replace irradiated materials! The must stay fit enough to work for something like 60 years AND loose radioactivity in, say, 100 years after the plant is decomissioned. Stainless steel does not blister. Berrilium does. When irradiated with neutrons it breaks down into two 4He. Hellium diffuses through the metal eventually firma bubbles. You must do the cleaning if you want to remove the dust, but Be does not become radioactive itself. The tokamak chamber is going to be an unfriendly place but all operations there will be done remotely.

@Irene-fu6gj

3 жыл бұрын

[Place holder note: I'm sorry I have a migraine right now with extreme eye pain and have drastically increase the length of this comment in explanation of my lack of short-term memory compromising the prior version. I will return that version once I feel better and hope I never have another migraine for many decades.]

@RoScFan

3 жыл бұрын

@@WielkiKaleson That sounds like an AMAZING band name, movie title, theme parkride etc.: the tokomak chamber!

@pokwerpokwerpokwer

2 жыл бұрын

Those problems with neutron & heat management are a lot easier to manage when the blanket is liquid! Check out the MIT / CFS 'ARC' and 'SPARC' reactors.

How the f did he get that cg to match his body movements so well?!?! He's tilting with the 3d model as if he was really standing in it. Well done.

@Kosake82

4 жыл бұрын

Asking the real questions.

@lepterfirefall

4 жыл бұрын

THATS EXACTLY what I thought. Great compositing.

@ChucksSEADnDEAD

4 жыл бұрын

Probably making the footage of the upper body sway while using motion tracking to make the lower body footage follow the movement, and simply timing it with the pendulum animation.

@NTProductions

4 жыл бұрын

He is swaying in front of a greenscreen, the rest is simple tracking on top of the CG.

@Gruuvin1

4 жыл бұрын

It's not CGI. It's an actual thing he is standing inside of. The background is green screen and CGI. Wow! You were ALL tricked!

"Working a billion times better than expected" simply means the creators are really bad at estimating

@vyliad

4 жыл бұрын

Oh? What was *your* estimate, oh humble genius?

@wavydavy9816

4 жыл бұрын

@@vyliad 42

@tsopmocful1958

4 жыл бұрын

It's sometimes good to have low expectations...especially when it comes to love...(sniff)😢

@elijahaitaok8624

4 жыл бұрын

@@tsopmocful1958 "I expected nothing and I'm still disappointed..."

@hexzyle

4 жыл бұрын

As a programmer if my executable works a billion times better than expected I know something's gone terribly terribly wrong

If a bunch of blokes sitting in a lab get the hint their research is going to higher places they will pursue it with that singleminded dedication. Brilliant! Think about it, it’s only 100 years or so that man first found how to fly, today, we are off to Mars soon. As for the moon, we will all be holidaying there within the next 10 years. It won’t be for the beaches and warm weather, no more like, I have the T shirt. Brilliant again

Thanks team, very informative

In fairness when I started lecturing ca. 20 years ago the joke was "Nuclear fusion is 40 years away and always will be". So, progress?

@ramblerandy2397

4 жыл бұрын

I heard it was 50 years away, about 50 years ago. I think the best thing to do is let them get on with the research, providing that it doesn't suck away any investment in clean, renewable, relatively low-tech energy production that definitely works.

@MICKEYISLOWD

4 жыл бұрын

@@ramblerandy2397 Even if they conquered it and implemented it worldwide they would still make it as expensive as possible. In fact it should make energy almost too cheap to meter but we have all heard that before.

@michealoflaherty1265

4 жыл бұрын

@@ramblerandy2397 well said

@rickdees251

4 жыл бұрын

Well, there are advances that have been made that are believed to be moving in the right direction.

@franklinrussell4750

4 жыл бұрын

We will not survive if we wait for this. Our ice caps will melt. You can't run a fusion device if you have no food.

If it smells, its chemistry If it moves, it's biology If it doesn't work, it's physics

@dnomyarnostaw

4 жыл бұрын

... so your computer sending this message ten thousand miles away ion under a second is an illusion? .. or Physics that works?

@Joe-xq3zu

4 жыл бұрын

@@dnomyarnostaw It actually works, therefore it's engineering

@dnomyarnostaw

4 жыл бұрын

@@Joe-xq3zu Nuh uh! Nothing gets engineered before the Physics is done. Try getting your house or skyscraper approved without an Engineering Certificate - calculated by the laws of PHYSICS! Edit: Oh yeah, back to "your computer", have a read about the Quantum Physics required to design your Microprocessor. Not even "just Physics", buddy.

@julianshepherd2038

4 жыл бұрын

@@dnomyarnostaw have you heard of humour?

@dnomyarnostaw

4 жыл бұрын

@@julianshepherd2038 Oh yes. But I am quick to defend anti-science sentiment in these political times, so you will have to be a bit more obvious if you are making jokes.

Excellent series of videos. I watched about several last. Excellent and very high quality. I did notice though that you didn't cover those superconducting magnets that had been introduced.

I'd like to add a perspective on some of the issues involved that many are not aware of. I was involved in the building of the HSX Stellarator at the University of Wisconsin - Madison in the late 1990's: hsx.wisc.edu/ which was the predecessor to Wendelstein 7-X, and the HSX is still being used for research. My specific part was the explosive forming of the plate segments against precision machined dies, which were then cut into the exact lengths needed and welded together (I actually know how to have a blast!.. and worked at a company that did explosive forming and welding along with other more conventional building and forming processes). I was also involved in the construction of other unusual research vessels for the University of Wisconsin Physics Department and the Synchrotron Radiation Center (Aladdin storage ring) which was shut down in 2014. In the process I have had multiple visits to the high energy labs and discussions with the Professes and Scientists involved on all kinds of interesting things. A problem for ALL future fusion reactors is that in the end you have to be able to cool the vessel faster than it heats up. What I was told by the scientist on the project who designed the HSX device is that the tokamak has a problem that its shape is not even theoretically possible to cool fast enough with known coolants if you ever got a sustained fusion reaction going. Depending on the design they estimated that a tokamak would melt within a few minutes of a sustained fusion reactor even with the best coolants. On the other hand, tokamaks are cheaper to build than stellarators, and at this stage of research the cooling issue could be "overlooked" until they could get even a 5 second sustained reaction. A stellarator is theoretically coolable by pumping liquid sodium around the pressure vessel - and thus you could actually potentially build a power plant using a stellarator design - if they can be made to produce fusion. I'm not sure if this new concept where at least part of the energy is produced directly as electrical current. I do know that you will need incredible heat removal capabilities to prevent it from melting. I'd like to hear their plans to handle that in the future. I've also worked in Power Plants (fossil and nuclear) so I have a very real idea of the kinds of thermal energies involved that the kind and type of equipment needed to handle it, and also about radiation issues. Also, fusion reactors do produce radiation, and will become radioactive. At a level of likely 1000 times less than a fission reactor, and you do not have spent fuel with half lives of over 10,000 years. Most metal or components that become radioactive from radiation tend to have half lives measured in years or decades; and would be harmless in less than 100 years or at most likely about 1000 years. However, the plant workers will still have to be radiation workers. Hope this proves useful for all.

This is huge. Because it could also be built to operate in space which would give our next generation ships a very powerful efficient long term power source with less safety concerns than a fission reactor in space.

9:16 ‘A ridiculous amount of energy’ -> power (petawatt)

Another interesting video, as always.

Good Work!

If we had spent a fraction of the money researching Thorium molten salt reactors as we have fussion we would already have all the carbon neutral energy we could use. Don't get me wrong, fussion is the future of our energy production, but we should have developed Thorium molten salt reactors first.

@Alrukitaf

3 жыл бұрын

“Fussion” is that a combination of fusion and fission? Or like in New Zealand - Fussion chips?

@marcwinkler

2 жыл бұрын

" Thorium debunked " on internet.

The world could of had Molten Salt reactors by now if they didn't shut down the Experimental labs in Canada where they had a unit running for four yrs. It was at Oakridge laboratories which got cancelled for stupid reasons and the fact you couldn't produce weapons grade materials as a by-product. These Liquid Salt Reactors could run at 1 Bar pressure so no need for a huge containment building, had built in safety features so 'meltdown' was an impossibility and they could be built at almost any scale so every town could have one and they could fit on a jeep to provide energy in field work so no more batteries in this application.

@Myrslokstok

4 жыл бұрын

Mickeyislowd Yes but we have the oil industry that put enviromental movment in power. Nothing will happen until the greens understand this and it will take a few generations and a bright and brawe person.

@tthinker9897

4 жыл бұрын

@@Myrslokstok hello. I'm a little confused at your post. The oil industry put the environmental movement in power? Why would big oil do that, and is the environmental movement in power? Just hoping for a little clarity, thanks.

@Forshledian

4 жыл бұрын

Molten Salt Reactors don't exist yet because no material we have currently can withstand the temperatures, corrosion and radiation the MSR design requires.

@brianrichard8310

4 жыл бұрын

@@tthinker9897 He is talking through his hat. The oil industry has done everything it can to shut the environmental down, including bribery of local.officals, assault, judicial injunctions, blockages, and strikes.

@brianrichard8310

4 жыл бұрын

@@Forshledian Molten salt reactors are real, but still experimental. It might be 20 years or more before we see a commercial operation, and yes the temperatures generated are very high, therefore the containment vessel for these salts must be able to withstand those temp's, but it's not impossible, just very very expensive. This puts it currently out of reach for most countries, including Canada.

I don't know why, but seeing you counter-sway to the swinging of the fusion reactor segment was like a visual ASMR.

Brilliant, informative video!

I like the sound of that last method. Not only do we get energy, but we get more helium for party tricks! Hooray!

@grim3646

4 жыл бұрын

Right? This shit could be a secondary product to sell! Possibly in bulk too

@catherinegrimes2308

2 жыл бұрын

Helium is in short supply on planet Earth and using it for party balloons is wasteful. Getting helium from nuclear fusion would be great.

Sounds great but I'll believe it when I see it

agree with this, looking forward to making it

I really like what your here. Thanks.

While failing forward with overcomplicated machines sometimes works, Safire Project is already doing fusion energy generators and theyre making a company to commercialize it.

@Danuxsy

4 жыл бұрын

It's a scam.

Fusion is the technology is always decade or more away from having, thorium molten salt reactor is the opposite, it's a technology we could have had decades ago. It turns out reaching for the stars is harder than we thought. Focus Fusion Mirror Fusion Cold fusion Tokamak General fusion Compression fusion Inertial confinement fusion Etc... It's a worthwhile endeavour, but sometimes more important matters need higher priority. If we end up in a endless winter caused by either nuclear war, supervolcano, giant meteorite etc, we will need a dependable source of energy then, not in 5 to 10-20 years.

I think this is a good step forward. I wondered why someone hasn’t tried something like that before watching this video. I was like there has to be a way to do fusion on a microchip to harness the current unleashed.

Thank you for describing this Massive endeavor. I hope I have the energy to continue studying this. As time goes by, I am feeling a bit run down.

We should throw our resources at MANY things. The more, the better. We have the resources. Let's push many technologies. Many things will come of it. Tech feeds tech.

@doppelrutsch9540

4 жыл бұрын

It would be an interesting question exactly how many resources we have that could be spent on research and what would be the expected return. I suspect that physical resources are not the bottleneck for a lot of research fields.

@spudhead169

4 жыл бұрын

It's often the case that failed projects are not entirely pointless. Tangential discoveries are often made and bear fruit. It's a risk to fund anything, but what isn't a risk these days?

@mikewooderson2917

4 жыл бұрын

Yes. We should... But the fact of the matter is that we are a violent race, and waaaaaay too busy working overtime to develop new and innovative ways to destroy each other for that to ever happen. Just saying.

@Nphen

4 жыл бұрын

Hot fusion is a waste of time, energy, and resources. Cold fusion has always been the Holy Grail. It might be here, courtesy of a small lab experiment to prove that the sun is electrical in nature. Watch this short video to see how revolutionary this tech is: kzread.info/dash/bejne/jHZ90MqJdqm8n8o.html

@spudhead169

4 жыл бұрын

Everything is electrical in nature.

3:59: 'at a total of 73 meters' Thats the height of the tokamak building, not the tokamak itself.

This sounds wonderful! We should be doing everything possible to make this happen!!!

Love it!

Your editing is very well done!

@JustHaveaThink

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@Wookey.

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, a lot of effort went into getting that 'swinging wobble' in the intro right. :-)

Should we throw all our resources at it? If the science is sound, then absolutely yes. We need it and we need it now.

@biomutarist6832

4 жыл бұрын

The science is rock-solid: see the sun, and evidence in physics. What is needed is engineering breakthroughs and political will.

@grindupBaker

4 жыл бұрын

@@biomutarist6832 Yes but the issue has always been that the Sun has that handy "gravity" feature to contain the plasma at the core and the container is "space" and "space" don't melt no matter how much you heat it. Difficult to get the equivalent of "gravity" and "outer space" in a generating-plant building.

@biomutarist6832

4 жыл бұрын

@@grindupBaker that's right, to make up for the lack of extreme gravity, current fusion engines use magnets for plasma containment and temperatures higher than at the sun's core to increase the chance of atomic collisions. We don't have the technology yet to keep the plasma hot and contained while gaining more energy than the amount inserted. We're slowly but surely getting there.

@jankirchhoff2551

4 жыл бұрын

@@biomutarist6832 Yes and that is why this NON thermal approach is quite different and sidesteps a lot of the problems of thermal approaches like tokamaks and stellarators

@johndoe1909

4 жыл бұрын

@@jankirchhoff2551 they need to build and demonstrate the technology.

Yes, all our efforts should go toward this technology. Wind and solar are very large, expensive and environmentally damaging as well as being intermittent which means another expensive technology is needed to store the energy it produces. Wind and solar use large amounts of materials and land to build and are maintenance intensive.

Awe inspiring!

The SAPHIRE project has achieved fusion in the Lab also, simple reactor with no dangerous waste products. Cheap endless supplies of electricity could be in our future. The fuel is hydrogen and who ever finally commercially develops this technology could change the future for a lot of people

@venlil

4 жыл бұрын

other fusion reactors have done 10x better that it

Most certainly compelling research. It is interesting to me that the video closes with what has become a presumed choice, that of "renewable" energy OR fusion. Both choices are degrees of aspiration. Net energy from fusion devices has yet to emerge and progress beyond research. We are often presented with the notion of "100% Renewable" Energy, but that does not exist on any power grid on this planet. Achieving 100% with storage is uneconomic and will have environmental consequences. That is unlikely to change soon. Dare I suggest that we continue to pursue the third leg to this two-legged stool? Nuclear power in the form of fission. Statistically the safest means of grid-scale power we've devised... but possibly the one facing the greatest popular sentiment headwind (to our collective detriment.) This would not be the first time that sentiment misleads us. Were we to pursue a fission development and expansion track NOW, we would not only cover what remains a large shortfall in "renewable" energy with a zero carbon source, but we would build a base of knowledge with engineers, physicists, chemists and mathematicians who examine the inner workings of nuclei -- the very set of curious minds that will be needed to advance fusion. Remember, fusion is a big endeavor. Call it "Big Tent Nuclear." One fabulous breakthrough messiah will not single-handedly dot the globe with millions of fusion power plants. It will take legions of scientists, engineers, and construction specialists... and they are more likely to emerge from Big Tent Nuclear than they are from "renewable" research and engineering. Accepting that we are still twenty years away from being twenty years away may be a bitter pill to swallow, but that should not interfere with creating a pragmatic achievable plan.

@beachcomber2008

4 жыл бұрын

Molten salt reactors, perhaps hybrid fast/thermal, would be the way to de-proliferate nuclear arms, burn up old nuclear waste, de-carbonize our atmosphere (and with it make fuel), desalinate sea water, and generate electricity for the batteries we will all be needing. Ships can transport them. We can do this job.

@Nphen

4 жыл бұрын

@@beachcomber2008 I agree with the above comment - fission can fill the gap until fusion arrives. However, a new discovery in LENR technology has given rise to a new power source that could end this debate once and for all. Low-energy fusion. Check out the info! kzread.info/dash/bejne/jHZ90MqJdqm8n8o.html

@beachcomber2008

4 жыл бұрын

@@Nphen There wasn't enough information given for me to accept that this research company has direct access to a serious level of power generating capability. Its explanation lacked most, if not all, detail. Maybe it's just another one of those. . . .

Excellent video .....

As someone who isn't a scientist, you gave a clear and technically accurate description. I'm impressed. Regarding the laser-driven fusion: given that their predictions were out by a billion, I don't hold hopes for it being the next big breakthrough. With ten years of work, it might qualify as a good idea but I won't expect it to be powering my home in the next ten years.

The work done by the SAFIRE project kinda blows all this out of the water.

well 20 years is an improvement over it always being 30 years away.

thank you for wonderful research and effort to produce your informative channel - I am too lazy. I really benefit from your work. Best I can do is share widely.

thanks for resume all the internet in one video

KZread video headline of 2072 "Have they finally nailed nuclear fusion?"

The stellarator gives me some hardcore star trek vibes, it's so cool..

Very exciting to see this possible without superheating

Phil Collins knew about this technology in the early 80s. Thank you for finally stepping out of that thing after 2 minutes

Fusion is the ultimate future of energy. But we can't put all our eggs in a basket being carried on a tightrope. We need to develop fission, especially thorium fueled LFTRs and LMSRs. Renewable resources, and ways of using fossil fuels as cleanly as possible with lowest carbon emissions. Above all energy efficiency and conservation are the lowest hanging fastest to realize.

@stuarthirsch

4 жыл бұрын

@LazicStefanFossil fuels must remain part of our energy mix. It's unrealistic to think that we can completely do away with fossil and fuels or jet engines, or internal combustion prime movers that rely on fossil and hydrocarbon fuels in the foreseeable future. Even if fusion were harnessed and fusion plants could be mass produced and replace coal and other fossil fuel power plants tomorrow. For example, aircraft don't fly very well directly powered by large heavy nuclear reactors, or directly via renewables. Heavy industrial equipment couldn't run very well without diesel or biofuel equivalent. Perhaps some day hydrogen fuel cells and advanced batteries can replace fossil fuels, jet and internal combustion engines fueled by fossil fuels or biofuels. But that is probally to be a long way in the future if it ever comes to fruition. However if we used far less fossil fuels and mainly for specific applications for which they are best suited and as cleanly and efficiently as possible we could easily meet our CO2 and greenhouse emissions requirements.

The answer to the last question is more, we can’t abandon stuff that already works - eggs in one basket sort of thing

@TheGarfunkler

4 жыл бұрын

We absolutely can and should abandon stuff that already works if we find something that works better.

@SirWussiePants

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheGarfunkler The key to that is "works". Once it is proven to work then I am behind it. Until then I will stick to the proven technology that exists.

@redcicles

4 жыл бұрын

For now, traditional renewables are the only cost-effective, fast-to-install solution to our electricity needs (and atmospheric constraints) in this century. If that changes we’ll all celebrate.

fascinating technology thanks for the vid ...peace out

I hope we will be here to enjoy it.

9:23 "Pettawatt of energy '' (Wrong expression ). The SI unit of energy is the joule (J). Pettawatt of power(power=energy/time).

@grobertaguilar6023

4 жыл бұрын

Hard to believe a ‘technology reporter’ who can’t get proper description of energy correct.

@giin97

4 жыл бұрын

@@grobertaguilar6023 Gell-Mann amnesia. You start with an inherent assumption that a report will be an absolute authority, until it's a subject in which you're well versed and you catch a seemingly obvious error. It throws the rest of the report into question, and you completely forget about it the moment you start the next report. In reality, more often than not, media reports are prepared by laymen that likely know very little about what is reported. It's all simplifying and rewriting things written by actual experts. When you don't know what you're talking about, it's easy to make it seem like you do, but it's an easy facade to break if you yourself know the subject. Take this comment, for example: all of this was written from the first dozen words of the description of Gell-Mann amnesia :p

@Arboldenrocks

4 жыл бұрын

technicality. lasers do output petawatts, in pulses. the energy per pulse is maybe a kJ. they just got really good at making the pulses shorter. q switching etc.

@jybuys

3 жыл бұрын

It is Petawatt, not Pettawatt.

How did he do that hanging swnging effect! Thats crazier than fusion

@boycefenn

4 жыл бұрын

exactly what i was thinking!

@henrytjernlund

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe Adobe AfterEffects.

@davidkempton2894

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking that too! 🤔

@theonlymudgel

3 жыл бұрын

Explained at 4:58 minute mark.

BRILLIANT !!!

We should put far greater resources into fusion, precisely for the reasons you present. This is an energy source that means essentially unlimited, clean, cheap power. Given the incredible promise of fusion, we should have multiple, parallel, and unique experimental approaches, all of which should receive ample government funding. A healthy competition that also features free collaboration between all "competing" teams. Fusion promises a Return On Investment of what, infinity? We should put fusion on the fast-track - as in, a crash program, to get it done as soon as possible. We already know it works, it's just an engineering challenge to overcome. I say, full-steam ahead, all systems go! And thank you to justhaveathink for a fine presentation!

Anytime someone says it's "a billion time better," I get a hundred times more skeptical.

@jamesfirth2392

3 жыл бұрын

I've told you a million times not to exaggerate

"Performing 1 billion times better than predicted" - that's a worrying thing to hear from a scientist - that's orders of magnitude off!

@markpurcell8075

4 жыл бұрын

If you look at the published papers you'll see the justification for this. They're talking about the effects of high magnetic confinement by a laser, producing a beam of nuclei from an initial non-linear acceleration by another laser which produces nuclei with the right amount of energy needed to initiate an avalanche. This is not thermal equilibrium conditions which would be a billion times less reactive. These reactions were actually predicted, but only now can they be tested with those new lasers.

@brianrichard8310

4 жыл бұрын

@@markpurcell8075 Look. In ANY profession, if you are a billion times anything more or less than predicated, means you STOP IMMEDIATELY, go back to the beginning, and find out WHY. You redo the math to find out where your predictions went wrong. THAT'S CALLED "THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD". Until you can reasonably predict the outcone, YOU DON'T DO IT AGAIN UNTIL YOU KNOW WHY YOUR PREDICTIONS WERE SO FAR OFF.

@markpurcell8075

4 жыл бұрын

@@brianrichard8310 Huh? The reactions *were* predicted, the billion times comment is press hyperbole and is compared to thermal reactions, which they conveniently miss off to make it look more impressive to the public. This is not thermal reactions. Hora prediced this stuff in the 60s.

@brianrichard8310

4 жыл бұрын

@@markpurcell8075 Try to get them to print a retraction then instead of just "accepting" the inane and insane poetic license, and calling it journalism. GEEZE! I'm no physicist, but slandering results like that SHOULD outrage the scientific community. Where are your leaders? They should be on the phone yelling at these yellow journalist's.

@Caccac40

3 жыл бұрын

not if they were pessimist about it lol like you seem to be :D

Right on!

When I was in school as a lad, Hydrogen fusion was said to be only about 20 years away. I'm in my mid-60's now and the research is still ongoing, with little to show for it. Nobody ever talks about the enormous quantities of dirty energy that has been required to do just the research over that period of time. I propose that first, the economic resources for these projects be directed to perfecting safe, abundant, clean, and cheap nuclear FISSION in order to produce the energy required for fusion for the next 20 years. This will buy mankind the time it needs before fossil fuel energy production eliminates any more 20 year futures altogether.

A couple of things: First, the Stellarator vessel was welded into one piece by humans and it would be an understatement of those German engineer's welding skills, not to mention that. Second, the stellarator is *the* concept for long pulse operation, contrary to the statement made in the video. The reactor is currently upgraded to sustain pulses of 30min at a time. Third, the main obstacle nowadays does not seem to be the confinement, but fusion fuel. In contrast to HB11, most approaches to fusion rely on tritium as a fuel, which does not occur in nature. It has to be 'bred' from Lithium, but that, in turn, requires a neutron multiplier such as Beryllium which is rare and not at all limitless available!

@Nukestarmaster

4 жыл бұрын

Deuterium moderated fission reactors produce a significant amount of tritium.

@Robert-er5wq

4 жыл бұрын

@@Nukestarmaster True, but that means we need nuclear fission plants to run the fusion plants - with the risks and the unsolved nuclear waste problem. It begs the question, why not just run fission plants? If you argue: to use the fuel better, you made my point.

@brianrichard8310

4 жыл бұрын

@@Robert-er5wq I'm not sure of my mind, (or my math) but maybe we are going about this wrong. You want to duplicate the "chain reaction", that occurs between the core of the sun, and it's (?) Photosphere? The core of the sun generates a massive graviton field. It is a very heavy celestial body. Yet you are dealing with magnetic rings to hold a plasma? Made from the lightest of elements. Then you ignite a pellet, in the centre of the rings? There seems to be a disconnect somewhere, but, of course I'm not a Scientist.

@Robert-er5wq

4 жыл бұрын

@@brianrichard8310 Sorry Barry, but your response to my comment seems to be disconnected. You probably wanted to comment on someone else's reply.

@catchnkill

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nukestarmaster Very few of those reactors in the world because heavy water is very expensive. I can think of is CANDU reactors that the Canadian are using now.

"without the need for fresh water"

@cantseewhatcantbeseen4485

4 жыл бұрын

100% agree with you on this though I do think the safety and actual reliability should be highlighted more than the resource requirements.

A breakthrough! Fusion must only be two decades away now!

@jjeherrera

2 жыл бұрын

It's been two decades away since 1958. 😀

I'm quite excited about this technology. I'd like to hear more about it. I've noticed there is not much about this subject on KZread.

Fusion energy is already here. I harvest high energy photos from a huge fusion reactor, which is a safe 150 billion metres away, using solar panels on my roof!

@bryanbarnard4094

4 жыл бұрын

Paul Mansfield unfortunately you don’t have access to that energy at night or when there’s heavy cloud cover. And I certainly hope you don’t have to deal with arctic temperatures during the winter.

@1SpudderR

4 жыл бұрын

Paul Mansfield Hmm? Yep! The Sun. And it only takes 8 minutes to get here and No standing monthly + energy charge for life = fifty years x 12 months at £8.00 x £100. 00 = Costing Approximately £60,000 pounds in a fifty year human lifespan...per household x How many human households? double it, because each household has two, gas and electric......Now we know why they are not developing Fusion! Household lifetime costs, at today’s costs = £120,000! Sun 🌞 not 50 unending years and no closer with our fusion scientists.

@1SpudderR

4 жыл бұрын

Bryan Barnard Hmm? Battery Storage for nighttime ! Silly boy......Bryan....

@johnterpack3940

4 жыл бұрын

@@1SpudderR Yup... batteries that require the mining and processing of various metals, the refining of oil to produce the plastic casings, the production of assorted chemicals, and regular replacement which involves more processing and chemical waste. Solar probably dumps more junk into the atmosphere from producing the panels and batteries than just hooking up to a coal power plant.

@PaulMansfield

4 жыл бұрын

@@johnterpack3940 regular replacement? my domestic battery storage is warrantied to still have 80% capacity after 10,000 cycles. with one cycle a day, that's many years. And then the batteries can be recycled, just as readily as you recycle old myths.

just have a think about the Safire Project,,,, and i subbed ur channel to c i u will research it and cover it on a video,,,,,, its worth u looking at it

@Todestuete

4 жыл бұрын

It seems like a big hoax/pseudoscience endeavour. Feel free to comment a source that makes the safire project somewhat believable. Their website doesn't.

@shockwave326

4 жыл бұрын

@@Todestuetebro go to youtube and the "Thunderbolts project's" site there and then search for "Safire" there are videos there with the head of the project talking about what the Safire Project does,,,, there u will find that they are seeing in the chamber,,,,, Transmutation of elements from one to another and they found heavy elements were and are being made in the chamber,,,, they slowed the speed of light down 5X in the plasma the experiment can REMOVE radioactivity from spent atomic fuel rods,,,, and they are currently looking to get 20 million dollars together to build the first safire power generation unit,,,,,, because safire shows the sun is electric not atomic the main stream dont want to touch it with a 10 foot pole,,,, here is one of the better talks kzread.info/dash/bejne/doiVusibpqrMaKg.html

@shockwave326

4 жыл бұрын

@@Todestuete oh and btw when the bell jar the prototype of this larger chamber was fired up for the first time it lit up the lights on thumb drives that were sitting on a bench across the room,,, if u dont understand the significance of that event then our chat is done

Fusion power is always 30 years away, not because we don't make any progress, but because the destination is harder to reach than we thought. But there's always big steps forward being made, and regardless of how long it will actually take, we'll eventually get there.

We can argue whether or not this constitutes a breakthrough or not; however, to me, it doesn't matter, because one day there will be a major breakthrough, thanks to today's research and experimentation.

The danger of having all your eggs in one basket are obvious and can have devastating consequences but if we are at the point of losing planet habitability then I say full steam ahead on the best technology that can lead us to zero carbon emissions!

@incognitotorpedo42

4 жыл бұрын

By "best", do you mean lowest cost per kWh? Something that works today and isn't speculative? That would be conventional renewables.

@shockwave326

4 жыл бұрын

search youtube for "Safire Project"

@ozzymandius666

4 жыл бұрын

What makes you think we are even close to losing planet habitability?

@shockwave326

4 жыл бұрын

@@ozzymandius666 i think u ment that comment to go to IncognitoTorpedo so next time click reply to the person whos comment u were commenting on :-P

@ozzymandius666

4 жыл бұрын

@@shockwave326 I was replying to the OP. Thanks for the great advice though.

9:14 "A petawatt is a ridiculous amount of energy." I thought joules are the measure of energy, not watts. I think a petawatt for a picosecond is only 1000 joules. Your vacuum uses 1000 joules of energy every second, it's not a lot. A petawatt is a ridiculous amount of power, if you keep it going.

@deluxeassortment

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Watts are the units for power, not energy. However, imagine 0.5 petawatt-hours. that's 1.8x10^18 joules. That's what this device will be capable of when it runs for the full 30 minute cycle. Even at 50% efficiency, that's still a 'ridiculous amount of energy.'

@ggg148g

4 жыл бұрын

Technically it's true, Dave should have better said "petawatt second" instead of "petawatt" or "amount of power" instead of "amount of energy". But, no offence, Doug's remark is much more pedantic than Dave's inaccuracy is significant.

@gavinkemp3601

4 жыл бұрын

@@ggg148g well not really because it can give the impression that we couldn't produce enough energy when it designed to run for a nanosecond so managable power.

@wondz

4 жыл бұрын

​@@ggg148g "petawatt second" is overstating the energy of the triggering laser by a factor of 1,000,000,000,000. "Petawatt-picosecond" would be far more accurate.

@waynet8953

4 жыл бұрын

@@deluxeassortment At 50% efficiency, you also to have to dissipate a lot of energy.

Humans had spent millennia trying to master heavier than air flight. The first commercial flight was in 1910...7 years after the Wright brothers. Describing a problem is very different to solving it. I find it amazing the advances we've made is the last handful of generations. Just because the solution of some problems doesn't march to the drum of our expectations doesn't mean it's impossible. It might mean we need to adjust our expectations, and how they are set ... particularly by commercially driven mainstream media.

Thanks to Innovation we will survive. You GOT "it Toyota. Keep On, Keeping On.

safire project won this race and they weren't even intending on creating a reactor..

@irockalego

4 жыл бұрын

we need more upvotes on this people don't even realize what has been done.

@unseenstalkr

4 жыл бұрын

@@irockalego I try and tell everyone I know, but you gotta be interested and invest a bit of time to truly see what breakthrus they have achieved. Cutting edge science and for faaar less than the billions on colliders and such haha.

@georgetek

4 жыл бұрын

They will know of it eventually.

@joemeschke

4 жыл бұрын

Has that team ever demonstrated a working prototype with net energy gains?

@billboyd1317

4 жыл бұрын

Joe good timing.. kzread.info/dash/bejne/jHZ90MqJdqm8n8o.html

Two words... Safire Project

@luke_fabis

4 жыл бұрын

Mark Cummins No.

@pistilliproductions2930

4 жыл бұрын

Yes

@pistilliproductions2930

4 жыл бұрын

@@luke_fabis why not?

LPP Fusion has been working towards a pulsed HB11 fusion cycle as well, but their method is a 'pinch effect' called focus fusion. Essentially it is magnetic confinement in a tiny rapidly collapsing plasmoid created by a large electric discharge. The device itself is largely just a vacuum chamber and capacitor bank, the direct conversion of helium nuclei, and associated X-rays is intended.

My personal thought is that a multi-pronged approach is by far the best at this time. Once a fusion plant comes online and is proven functional and safe, then the subject should be revisited.