I learned a while ago that "Everything is relative". If we get nuclear fusion to produce energy for us by the end of this century, I would still call that within reach.

You just gotta love this guy's enthausiasm! And the contraption he's proposing is quite possibly the most awesome machine I have ever seen.

@retromillenium

5 жыл бұрын

I agree. You're statement is not an exaggeration.

I love this guy, he's exactly what humanity needs if it's going to see itself through the next century.

@russhamilton3800

2 жыл бұрын

He’s a charlatan.

I love this guy and what he says about fusion, and his accent accent ever more

So good to see the progress made. we are eagerly waiting for this stuff.

Fusion has been promised in the next 10 years for the last 40 years!

I worked more than 40 years in the microelectronics business and I fully agree on the disappointment of working so hard for such a trivial results. I’m really looking forward to see the first commercially viable fusion power plant in my lifetime, that will be the real breakthrough for humanity’s

@dreamdiction

2 жыл бұрын

They know it will ever work, there is no material which can contain and utilize the radiated heat from 100 million degrees, it's just a tax-funded scam will will not die because there are too many people making too much money from the charade.

I've hear about 'fusion soon' in my childhood book about physics. It was 30 year ago. And now my child watching KZread about 'fusion soon'. I expect his son will watch holo-something about 'fusion soon' 30 years later...

@harrue

6 жыл бұрын

amaraojiji hopefully not

@rashkavar

6 жыл бұрын

That's like saying "Pope Alexander VI saw Leonardo DeVinci's plans for a flying machine, 400 years later, people are still failing to make them, therefore powered flying machines are impossible." Oh wait, add another decade or so to that 400 years and you've got the Wright Brothers. Just because people 30 years ago were stupidly optimistic about fusion doesn't mean progress isn't being made.

@crhu319

5 жыл бұрын

You could have said the same about electric vehicles. And you would not have been wrong, but suddenly all at once the Tesla, GM Volt, Nissan Leaf, and hybrids like Prius became popular. These things can and do just suddenly work.

@Conenion

5 жыл бұрын

@Cr Hu > but suddenly all at once the Tesla, GM Volt, Nissan Leaf, and hybrids like Prius became popular. > These things can and do just suddenly work. Here in Germany EVs account for 0.11% of all cars as of Jan 2018. Norway, massively subsidizing EVs, has already problems with too many EVs and too few charging stations. To say EVs "just suddenly work" is too early. Tesla has jet to show whether their business model is sustainable. It "works" if and _only_ if any manufacturer is able to mass produce a cheap affordable EV without making debt. Tesla's goal was to produce 20,000 cars per week by now, not just 5,000 (=260,000/year). Porsche, which is really small, sells around 230,000 per year, to give a comparison. Tesla's idea is simple: vertical integration and scaling effects. Problem is: the more batteries you produce the more costly they can get because of the rare materials they contain. It is too early to say that batteries will be significantly cheaper once mass produced. Tesla made high-stakes investments and piled up a breath-taking amount of debt. It is not clear if all of their plans work out. Not clear at all, as of now.

Entertaining & informative speaker. Good status report on Fusion. Everyone should be encouraging the development of fusion - the ULTIMATE Energy Source!

@crestonkaupp3354

5 жыл бұрын

I agree

Fusion will unlock our next giant leap. We'll finally have enough power for fast space travel, serious lasers, and of course the death of fossil fuels

@eitkoml

8 жыл бұрын

+Nabre Labre A lot of problems today could be solved through simple brute force provided by so much cheap energy. Still, people were saying that fusion power plants will be working in 10 years since 1960.

@YouCallitPiracy

8 жыл бұрын

+Nabre Labre I think the WAMSR has more chance of coming to fruition. I've been at JET in England on a university excursion and despite being fascinating it's just not going to be ready for 50 years or more. ITER is just a proof of concept, Lockheed Martin's creation is a joke and the continues cycle devices are too small to get net out. To give an indication of how not ready JET was they need to pump for months to achieve a vacuum good enough. The walls absorb the tritium.(fixed in ITER) And when it ran it could only run for minutes and they don't run it because the walls become radioactive. At 200k euros a day I don't thin it's really worth the investment once ITER is finished. It's a matter of scale which in a time of non centralized production being the trend I don't think I'll live to see fusion. (that says something as I'm only 20 years old)

@eitkoml

8 жыл бұрын

YouCallitPiracy What could be working much sooner is fission with liquid salt thorium reactors.

@ColinGclicks

8 жыл бұрын

+YouCallitPiracy i hear you bro but fusion will be here by 2035 in a major way. guarantee

@Jacksllvn0

8 жыл бұрын

+Nabre Labre and death rays

just found this... coolest channel ever

I like how that lady is sleeping at 9:20 :P haha.

@procraft

6 жыл бұрын

Haha! Makes me think of this huge lecture by Stephen Hawking in Copenhagen. The guy to the left AND the right of me both fell asleep.

@HalfDayHero

6 жыл бұрын

hopefully they'll crack fusion so she can get some damn energy

@martinsworld8678

6 жыл бұрын

Ahh. Stephen Hawking. Rest in Pece.

@FrogmortonHotchkiss

6 жыл бұрын

@Stuart Murray: I am from an alien race with an advanced sense of humour. Here is your first (!?) upvote for that joke.

I'm a time traveler from 3 years in the future, and I can tell you that nuclear fusion is not within reach.

@whalekid6142

3 жыл бұрын

. . . damn.

@geraldh.8047

2 жыл бұрын

I’m a time traveller from another 3 years in the future and the pieces are starting to slowly come together. Lots of private investments in fusion startups, quite substantial investments actually. And ITER also progressing in a big way now.

@VeritasPraevalebit

2 жыл бұрын

I have travelled close to 8 years into the future, we are near the end of the year 2021. Not much has happened at General Fusion. They have flattened the spherical arrangement of cannons and combined this with firing delays that still will produce a spherical shock wave. Another thing that has happened is that they disabled comments on on their later videos, probably to prevent me from announcing that their concept will never work. How can a chock wave in the fluid compress the central cavity? Seems mechanically impossible to me.

@esra_erimez

2 жыл бұрын

@@VeritasPraevalebit LOL!

@VeritasPraevalebit

2 жыл бұрын

@@esra_erimez Dear Ezra, this is not a laughing matter. The destiny of humanity and our cohabitants on planet Earth depends on access to abundant sustainable non-fossil energy.

How about an update?

@soylentgreenb

7 жыл бұрын

OK, here's an update. NIF was designed to achieve ignition with a factor 2 safety margin (actually it was designed and funded to validate models for simulations of nuclear weapons so that no actual nuclear tests are required to design new nukes and maintain existing nukes; but achieving ignition is an important goal for research into thermonuclear weapons, although plenty of its use is to research things like state equations for uranium and plutonium). NIF now looks like it will never reach ignition and it is publically admitted that it might never do so. Every time we have tried inertial confinement fusion, we have started out expecting ignition and it has always turned out that there are instabilities (e.g. Raleigh-Taylor instabilities), and the scaling is not as good as predicted and we're going to need an order of magnitude more laser energy to make it work. When we build that order of magnitude larger machine that we think will work, the process begins again with more stabilities and issues that make it look like we need just another factor of ten in laser energy. ITER is still progressing on schedule (very slowly) and still looks hopeless from the perspective of leading to a commercially viable fusion reactor this half of the century. There's still a large number of interesting small scale approaches to fusion where we do not know what and where the major show-stoppers are or how well they scale (e.g. focus fusion, polywell fusion, general atomics comical but possibly effective steam-punk MTF fusion machine, tri-alphas FRC machine etc.)

@Hy-jg8ow

7 жыл бұрын

What about the Stellarator?

@andrebalsa203

7 жыл бұрын

*The update is quite short: nothing new on the horizon for fusion reactors.* Commercial fusion power is nowhere to be seen, just as it has been during the last 50 years, and as expected for the coming 50 years too.

@johannesgh90

7 жыл бұрын

"[ITER] is expected to finish its construction phase in 2019 and will start commissioning the reactor that same year and initiate plasma experiments in 2020 with full deuterium-tritium fusion experiments starting in 2027." "DEMO should produce at least 2 gigawatts of fusion power on a continuous basis, and it should produce 25 times as much power as required for breakeven. DEMO's design of 2 to 4 gigawatts of thermal output will be on the scale of a modern electric power station. [...] Construction from 2031 to 2043 Operation from 2044, Electricity generation demonstration 2048"

@soylentgreenb

7 жыл бұрын

Linear extrapolation of exponential trends is risky.

I love these ta\lks as they make me happy for humanity.

Thank You.

Thank God for geniuses like this man....nice video...very easy to understand. Plasma must at some level...act like a "solid" then, if hitting pistons, creates that much more heat?

Interesting talk and great delivery. Not at all boring or dry technical

Gotta love it. I'd be the 1st to say we ought to be using fusion. But the date on this is 7 years ago and we're still hearing "fusion is right around the corner" and "it's within reach". I wish that were true. And no one would be better pleased than I to hear "we told you so". But I just don't think it's going to happen anytime soon.

As far back as 1963 I was reading stories about how fusion power would be available within 20 years. I'm still waiting.

@russhamilton3800

2 жыл бұрын

Not in your lifetime, not in your kids lifetime and not in their kids lifetime…unfortunately

@petersimmons3654

2 жыл бұрын

Precisely! But they keep getting funding paid by people with jobs paying taxes. This video is 7 years out of date, has this silly man had any rethink? Of course not! They promise fusion as it is 'clean' compared to fision, or would be if they could get it to produce more energy than is put in, so far at this point in Ausust 2021, this is still the situation, they get a massive bolt of power but for a tiny fraction of a second, and in return for much more power pumped in. It's all BS to keep the money flowing for their comfortably numb life.

@juhanleemet

2 жыл бұрын

still 20+ years away, from what I hear

@russhamilton3800

2 жыл бұрын

@@juhanleemet and always will be.

The Germans are currently constructing the Wendelstein 7-X, apparently its magnetic field has been optimized by a super computer... Look it up!! The shape it has is awesome! If it works, it's even cooler to think this donut will bring us all the energy we need :D

@kurtilein3

8 жыл бұрын

+Bobby Waksy the first test was successful. so the machine is running now.

@jonharson

8 жыл бұрын

+Bobby Waksy ITER is a lot bigger than 7-X

@kurtilein3

8 жыл бұрын

jonharson But 7-X has a plasma free of electrons, so it cannot emit photons, it is invisible, and that is really cool, except that it is at 100 million degrees which is not cool. Eliminating electrons and electric current does a lot, read up on it.

@midgekiller2151

6 жыл бұрын

7-x is only a research project to show that it is possible to contain plasma in a stellarator device. ITER is much bigger because its purpose is to show that energy break-even is feasible. It will NOT feed electricity into the grid, though, either, because its also just a research reactor.

@bernhardschmalhofer855

6 жыл бұрын

Of course there are electrons in the plasma of Wendestein 7-X. If there were only positive charges the plasma would rip apart immediately. The special thing in stellarators, as compared to tokamaks, is that there is no strong current around the donut.

6:42 don't lie to me, i know a death star when i see one

great job!

Nuclear Fusion has been the dream answer to our energy needs for the last fifty years and probably will be for another fifty years. Too complex, too expensive. Molten Salt reactors, either burning Thorium or our current stockpile of nuclear waste will be everywhere , powering everything long before the first fusion plant ever gets built

That is the first talk that gave me some real hope for fusion. All the mobile phones in the world consume 60 MWh energy by the way ;) We need a solution that the oil-cartels do not manage to suppress. As he said: ASAP

When you realise this was posted 5 years ago. *Big oof*

@katraconnor8451

5 жыл бұрын

we made giant leaps in fusion tech since ten with viable designs being developed as we speak. we already had japan and china sustain plasma for over 100 seconds last year. 100 seconds. ITER will be the last experimental reactor to nail everythign we learned down and sum it up, after iter fusion will be commercially availiable. about 5 to 10 more years

@Anonymous-pr3gr

4 жыл бұрын

When you realized that it took a little over 30 years to make that little thing you can hold in your hands to make phone calls, text, play graphic games, browse the biggest collection of data ever accessed in the history of humanity and much more. In short, 5 years is not much time.... Big oof

@richhitch3242

4 жыл бұрын

He says right at the end of the video that he hopes "within the next 5 years" he can demonstrate that his machine works. Seeing as it was filmed in 2014, an update is due right about now as to his progress.

@Anonymous-pr3gr

4 жыл бұрын

@@richhitch3242 You can use google to find the update. No one CRACKED the puzzle per say, but they are getting closer to it. Problem with fusion is that no one cares about the progress being made if the whole thing does not work.

@lop2167

4 жыл бұрын

Look up ITER

This is so badass

Fusion is the way to go😎

It's now 2020 - six years later and they still haven't "cracked that nut"...and I'm still waiting for the flying car I was promised in 1965 that would be available by the 1980's. I wish them the best, but I've been hearing that fusion power is right around the corner since the 1960's.

The question is not whether we can achieve positive energy output continuously from fusion, no doubt we can. The real question is: can we gain electricity from fusion cheaper than renewables + storage and the answer to that question is that it is highly unlikely. Fusion is so complex that it is unlikely that it will ever be cheap because of the manpower, expertise and maintenance required.

Thorium sounds more promising

Cool I really like the comparison with Moore's Law :)

@russhamilton3800

2 жыл бұрын

Why? Notice none of those increases correlate to anything? There is no grand increase toward Q. Just his assurance, vague and undefined.

Very very interesting

It wouldn't surprise me if Greenpeace starts to demonstrate against nuclear fusion because it has the word nuclear in it

@Ucceah

6 жыл бұрын

nukular. the word is nu-ku-lar.

@patrickeigenmann138

6 жыл бұрын

I am so smart. S-M-R-T

@jeffreyumeh8580

6 жыл бұрын

Well you still do have the problem of the reactor parts becoming radioactive, although they only need to be stored for 500 years, and it's solid waste rather than liquid waste which solves a lot of problems if you can develop graphene and could coat the outside with it that would stop corrosion for a long time so then you could just bury it a couple of meters down in some concreate probably.

@guerreiro943

6 жыл бұрын

Why would reactor parts become radioactive? The end-product is helium, which is not radioactive

@chigeh

6 жыл бұрын

iirc the period was only 50 years.

it will be usable in 10 years(1960)2015 it will be usable in 10 years.

@Oscarandjo

8 жыл бұрын

+like a rock They weren't lying in 1960, we've got working fusion plants. They just don't produce a net gain of electricity and aren't cost effective. We need to keep improving what we've already got until it reaches that point where it starts to become profitable. Once some real investment and companies jump on board it will accelerate quickly to a final product.

@likearockcm

8 жыл бұрын

+Oscarandjo ok then it will be profitable in 10 years then? tons of private and mostly government(taxpayer) money already being thrown at this .

@edydossantos

8 жыл бұрын

+gtq838 And, for some researchers, the profits were not as they planned; in a contrary, there was waste of money!

Good luck!

WOW ! Well done Mr. Laberge. Without a doubt you have cleverly engineered and built the future technology for generation of nuclear fusion power ! A nuclear fusion power reactor will give us the power of the sun in a bottle, so to speak. So, when will nuclear fusion reactor technology be available in Australia !

@smasher123ism

6 жыл бұрын

Phillip A soon we hope

Fusion power is coming soon to a theater near you.

One of numerous good ideas, but what I'd like to see is a combination of the technologies used. Heating strictly to fusion with lasers is expensive but combine laser tech, with this magnetic pulse detonation and use particle accelerators to confine kinetic energy in the particles themselves not just excitation energy when injected & I think the cost will come down. The answer is no longer "another 20 years" instead it's soon, very soon.

Almost there for 70 years.

@crhu319

5 жыл бұрын

Like manned flight, electric vehicles, equal rights for gays... just keep working on it.

I just watched a video from the 70s where they said fusion power was "just within reach" as well.

@Dude3210123456

8 жыл бұрын

+Smorfty The diffrence is that now we are building a fusion reactor that produces more energy than we are putting in it. Search for the ITER project.

@kakistocracyusa

7 жыл бұрын

"ITER will be the first fusion device to produce net energy" is the claim. Read the fine print.

It seems more practical using this method but my first thought was to use sound waves to compress the plasma instead of mechanical steam driven pistons!

5 years ago..

Great...

what if we used gunpowder or some explosive to propel the pistons?

I think this is the older of the two talks, but has anyone noticed some re-used lines between this talk and some of the thorium reactor talks?

@sophiamarchildon3998

3 жыл бұрын

Because they tackle the same problem?

Since the early sixties I've been reading about how nuclear fusion was just around the corner. I'm glad I wasn't waking to that corner.

I like this guy.

Hello there. I am currently graduate in Business but I plan to go for science and energy...Which graduation course should I take in order to be part of the fusion energy development, as well as other energy sources? I am 23 years old from Brazil, thanks in advance.

@vk92007

8 жыл бұрын

+Filipe Barbieri You should look at the various programs that are on the internet given by various universities here in the US or anywhere else in the world

@Aistlander

8 жыл бұрын

+Filipe Barbieri Applied physics

@smasher123ism

6 жыл бұрын

Physics or Mechanical engineering

I remember in high school they pushed this idea of nuclear fusion in the next ten years ect, I don’t think we can have this type of energy with out the knowledge of the fifth fundamental force, It seems that there is something unknown causing a form of signal lose making it hard to overcome the strong force. It probably be more useful to fund research into antigravity because my guess is that it is related to the fifth force once we have an understanding of that we could probably make this stuff work

how far away now?

Hy spectral line indicate the absorption fq to assist fusion

I would have loved a Q&A

Im sorry but isnt static electricity when electrons gather together in a very simple style of atmospheric/room temp "fusion"?

@u1zha

5 жыл бұрын

Nah, static electricity is electrons collected with increased density, but they still repel each other. The spark is electrons finding a path away from the overcrowded place, that's all... I think noone has really discovered any useful stuff happening with electrons when they are forced to run into each other. Fusion and fission is all about atomic nuclei, not the electrons.

I was watching a video about compress Pistons I wonder if the company stole this guy's idea. Maybe it was the same company but either way it is possible for someone to work hard just for a bigger company to steal their idea. Side note: is there a stock market for upcoming Fusion Energy?

Good luck, really hope you'll get it.

Looking forward to a time when we no longer fight over energy and oil but instead fight over fresh water and thoughts and feelings. I've always wondered something - the deeper you drill, the hotter it gets correct? And some places it gets hotted much quicker than others, right? So why don't we drill down, create steam to spin generators and use that for power instead of coal, oil, etc?

@smasher123ism

6 жыл бұрын

DMMcGregor Digging that deep isn’t practical

I think a combined palladium electrode fusion & muon catalyst, might be the best system

@rustemsubashi3868

4 жыл бұрын

Hot fusion is crazy. The LERN is the future, we need a new math to explain the anomaly of LERN only this.

Hello everybody, Is hydrogen only fuel or any other for fusion !

I'm not a nuclear surgeon but I have a thought. I understand the reactor problems, somewhat. Would utilizing the impact process with a containment tank modification help? It seems to me, if you can reduce the reaction force against the walls that's the game winner. So I thought how does nature handle pressure, thermal and energy waves? It's not using ring, cylinder or sphere shapes. No every time it's a vortex. Tornadoes, exploding stars, whirlpools all vortex. It not only contains the energy, it uses the energy to contain itself. In a fire twister the vortex shape amplifies the energy. In many cases to the point it can move across water. If with a combination of the shell form and magnetic fields, you form a double vortex like an hourglass. The top and bottom shaped like deeply dimpled mushroom tops. The majority of magnetic energy at the mid point to help push towards the core of the reaction. The blast is given a relief point to either end. The energy heads to the parabolic ends with the inverted cone dimples. Splits, follows the arch then turns back in to the middle flowing around the central blast in the core. Add some spin. Tornado in a bottle. Possibly a self sustaining solution? The hard part should be getting it started. And if natures any indicator, scalable. Just Thinkingoutloud

@jl6569

8 жыл бұрын

K

@TheSidder1

8 жыл бұрын

+Tayro Thinkingoutloud sound cool, if you look closely at 12:20 it kinda looks like an hourglass with a sphere in the middle :)

@tayro7265

8 жыл бұрын

***** That's what made me think about it. What might seem stupid could be important. To date over 90% of the inventions that have changed our lives has come from amateurs or accidents. I'm an accident that won't stop happening.

@Charles0in0charge

8 жыл бұрын

+Tayro Thinkingoutloud I don't know if a vortex would be practical in the case of fusion. The vortex is a good way to equalize high pressure states. Maybe, the application could be in the design of the reactor. There is a new design shape that had the magnets twist around the metal doughnut which would make management of the plasma more efficient.

@Charles0in0charge

8 жыл бұрын

+Tayro Thinkingoutloud I don't know if a vortex would be practical in the case of fusion. The vortex is a good way to equalize high pressure states. Maybe, the application could be in the design of the reactor. There is a new design shape that had the magnets twist around the metal doughnut which would make management of the plasma more efficient.

I cant imagine how loud your machine is gonna get.

Commercial fusion power is not only 50 years away, but that it will always be 50 years away

How does the energy density compare to a traditional reactor?

@infini_ryu9461

2 жыл бұрын

Fusion is several times denser than Fission, but that's really irrelevant. Fission is already so energy dense and plentiful there's really nothing that Fusion can do that Fission can't, and Fission power actually exists, so that helps. Tritium does not exist in nature and must be created with weapons grade Lithium only available in Russia and China, the US banned Lithium enrichment.

@ryccoh

2 жыл бұрын

@@infini_ryu9461 why did they ban lithium enrichment

@infini_ryu9461

2 жыл бұрын

@@ryccoh It requires a mercury separation process that is highly toxic. Never mind the fact the Lithium-6 is a weapons material and the reason it was enriched at all. Thermonuclear weapons use Lithium-6. The US is in the process of decreasing it's nuclear arsenal so it's not really worth it to do so.

Thorium Fission reactors and the leap to Fusion reactors will never see the light of day till a major earth changing event happens.

@luctonindustries2295

8 жыл бұрын

+Joeshirou Climate Change...That's pretty major.

@joeshirou

8 жыл бұрын

+Lucton Industries until the human race starts seeing huge effects it won't be the push that is needed

@Shyning

8 жыл бұрын

+Joeshirou Fact is that when we'll see these major changes, it means it'll be too late to reverse it. So, yeah, we're pretty much fucked if nothing happens to change this before it happens. Scientists gave governments the best reasons there were to fund the research, they still do as of today but they won't give them a penny to encourage it. Because, you know, stupid amount of energy means close to free energy, which for governments, isn't profitable at all, while oil is a freaking good way to extort money to fund more useless things.

The part about this that most people don't seem to grasp is that even nuclear fission within uranium inside a power plant is barely _break even_ (regarding fossil fuel usage). Most seem to conveniently forget all the energy that is consumed to make the concrete, melt the steel and other metals, form the wiring, fabricate, forge, cold roll, weld, etc., etc., and then TRANSPORT all of this to a site just to BUILD a reactor. Then the uranium must be mined, transported, extracted and enriched, formed into pellets, assembled into rods and then fuel assemblies, and again TRANSPORTED. All of these processes are _extremely_ energy intensive and the reactor hasn't even pushed a single electron onto the grid yet. My point? In order to step from the stone we are currently standing on (in terms of energy supply) to the next better one, requires consuming IMMENSE amounts of energy that is available using technology that is available during the time we are standing on the old step. What does this all mean? It means we CANNOT screw around waiting for an oil crisis, coal shortage or widespread irreversible environmental damage before we start pushing HARD for cleaner, more readily available alternatives. Fusion should be brought up in the news on a weekly basis, but sadly it is not, at this time. After all, we have all the time in the world to spare, until the day we DON'T...

I’ve created a Cold Fushion Time Machine

@eklavyaraut7408

3 жыл бұрын

Ok good

Fusion is the technology of the future, always has been, always will be. It is always 10 years in the future. I have been hearing this for over 50 years.

@MrLeovdmeer

Жыл бұрын

Then look for yourself instead of just "hearing" ITER is almost complete and wil start testing in 2025.

If we manage to use graphene as energy source which one would you think is better fusion or graphene?

@dijjit

9 жыл бұрын

graphene is a material not an energy source...

@Mobunto

9 жыл бұрын

graphene is both a material and it is able to generate energy and store it :)

@dijjit

9 жыл бұрын

Oybek Kamolov No graphene cannot generate energy. Its a super thin layer of graphite layered up nicely. If Pencils could magically generate energy, we would not be having this conversation.

@aranw

9 жыл бұрын

I don't even ...

@Mobunto

9 жыл бұрын

dijjit pencils are graphite... do some research, scientists are even trying to bring graphene based batteries.

I think I have actually "cracked that nut", and (hopefully) we shall know fairly soon. My design is DRAMATICALLY different from everything which has come before, because I have totally gone outside of the (crowded) box which the thermonuclear industry has tried to locked us in all of these years. I knew it could potentially be done when I was still in high school back in the 1960s, which is when I first began studying thermonuclear energy. BTW, I have also come up with a fusion engine for space which can easily take us to Mars and beyond! I was inspired by the Star Trek series to do this, which first started up in the late 1960s. A theoretical thermonuclear propulsion system for space was my HS senior year Science Fair project back in 1969. Over the years I have slowly perfected this propulsion system design. Hopefully big changes are in the works, everyone! - Rick Carter

I realize this is very old, But CHILDESS. Any thoughts on Thorium?

20 years away, and always will be :P

And just how many times have we heard this? Best of luck to us but reality needs to come forth once in a while.

fusion is right around the corner, the same as the last 50 years

Doesn't the Sun and Stars create Fusion energy naturally? What if we tried creating fusion energy up in space as well? Would this work or not?

@jamesdelarosa9656

7 жыл бұрын

SkySynthesia Very Valid Point, thanks for clearing this.

The Wendelstein 7-X experiment looks like a winner.... almost there.

Great tech... about 10 years away, which is a bit odd, as it was also about 10 years away when i visited JET in the 90's.... also jetpacks, 3 pills for dinner & world peace. :-)

I reached fusion years ago. Wait for Iter.

There is still hope

LENR E-Cat invention by Andrea Rossi looks like cold fusion is possible. Rossi's device has been replicated by Prof Alexander Parkhomov of Lomonosov Moscow State University and Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project (MFMP). Hope it really works and save the planet.

The audience was riveted: (9:21)

Fusion will probably be the permanent solution for the energy need, but the clumpsy tokamak concept will never take off economically. New approaches need to be found.

@mehuntpedbro2302

6 жыл бұрын

Knut Holt yup, check out wendelstein 7x, it's been running for a year and is a stellarator

@crhu319

5 жыл бұрын

Tokamak is popular to fund because it fits so neatly into the existing fission reactor grid, and one tokomak could replace four nuclear fission plants, which is about as many as are typically ever constructed in one single location. So the grid is ready to simply replace nuclear fission with large scale tokomak deuterium fusion, and that grid takes a long time to upgrade. I agree with you completely that the smaller-scale aneutronic, "cool" or "warm" fusion using lithium or boron or He3, all need to be explored thoroughly so that we know which is the most practical long term... it would really be awful to invest too much in all technologies except the one that turns out to be easiest to deploy & maintain. "Cold fusion" also should not be ruled out there, are sonofusion & palladium cube phenomena to explain that do appear to be caused by tiny fusions in controlled sonic or rare metal cages that force the atoms together.

He showed moores law as comparison. Did anyone else notice that after 2000 fusion progress didn't double every few years like the transistorcount?

Vive le Québec !

I've been told that people have been saying this since our parents were kids. Why is it different now?

Yes, just another 2 or 3 hundred years and we might get it. Oh Yay!

"nuclear fusion is coming much sooner than we think" That was never going to age well.

6 years is there an update?

@timothywilliams8530

3 жыл бұрын

@mrmichaelmw Darn

@Verifraudreports

3 жыл бұрын

yeah bill gates is build a whole slew of molten sodium fast reactors.. runs on nuclear waste... comes online in 2026 terrra power

1:36 No, I actually didn't know that energy can be _made._ 2:37 _Fuelcost:_ he only refers to deuterium, assuming that tritium (the other fuel need) can be produced by the fusion process itself. 5:25 _Tokamak:_ means _toroidal chamber with magnetic coils,_ invented in the former USSR 8:24 _ITER:_ there are 35 rather than 10 countries participating, just sayin'...

@Mastikator

9 жыл бұрын

Tritium can be made with that spare neutron and lithium, neutron + lithium => helium + tritium. It's how they intend on doing fusion in the ITER fusion reactor. Add deuterium, tritium and lithium to the donut, the spare neutron from the tritium + deuterium fusion will collide with a lithium making more tritium.

@retoblubber

9 жыл бұрын

Mastikator yeah, that's what I actually wrote: _"...assuming that tritium (the other fuel need) can be produced by the fusion process itself."_ Which part of that sentence made you think otherwise?

@Mastikator

9 жыл бұрын

Reto Fassbind The statement seemed like it had a point to it, if it wasn't that tritium can't be created then I don't know what the point of your statement is.

@retoblubber

9 жыл бұрын

Mastikator Glad you asked. It's about the fuel cost that he claims to be 1/1000th of a cent per kWh. I pointed out that he refers to deuterium only, assuming that production of tritium will work as anticipated with little cost involved. If the production of tritium turns out to be more costly, then the 1/1000th of a cent-figure for fuel cost will change significantly. Did I make myself clear now?

@Mastikator

9 жыл бұрын

Reto Fassbind The cost of producing tritium is irrelevant, when you fuse deuterium and tritium you get a helium and a neutron. If you take that neutron and smack it into a lithium then you get a helium and a tritium. The cost is simply the value of lithium, which is trivial in comparison to the deuterium. A quick search shows that a 99.9% pure lithium metal ingot costs about 50-150$ per kg (if purchased by me, a private person).

How can the fusion technology be protected? I'd imagine that patents would not be the answer in this case...

Governments should invest massively in fusion power rather than wasting time with windmills and solar panels.

what's the followup? the video is three years old already.

Laser fusion whilst having research value, would be almost impossible to produce usable energy for the grid, as it is all generated within micro seconds.

Philo Farnsworth already accomplished fusion with his Fuzor.

I don't fully understand physics or the complexities of nuclear fusion, but could we fuse hydrogen by using sonoluminescence or the same process that Pistol Shrimp use to stun there prey?? Just a thought that popped into my head when watching the video on sonoluminescence.

@smasher123ism

6 жыл бұрын

No. This is on the atomic level

@crhu319

5 жыл бұрын

There are claims that "sonofusion" occurs & they are not all "proved to be fraudulent". There are unexplained energy releases in certain sonic & palladium cube configurations, and "cold fusion" remains something worthy of research. Note that these are entirely different from aneutronic fusion approaches involving directly firing atoms at each other (like a particle accelerator on tiny scale), or the "proton+lithium", "proton+boron" or "He3+He3+He3" approaches... which are themselves different from the "hot fusion" tokamak reactors like ITER. All we can say for sure is that these heavier metal fusions actually do work because we can see them in action in the Sun (stellar nucleosynthesis).

4 years later and we are not much closer........

he already did this talk on the main ted talks..

Good luck to him. Someone needs to think outside the box, because the conventional approaches to fusion are so complex that they are still decades from producing useful energy and may never be economically viable.

@arachnid83

4 жыл бұрын

ITER will do it, ITER must do it.

@infini_ryu9461

2 жыл бұрын

Those start ups always fail and so did his. ITER is not even predicted to produce more energy than it consumes in total. There's nothing outside of the box about this, everyone has been saying it's closer than we think for half a century. He mentions the abundance of deuterium but avoids the fact that Tritium does not exist in nature and requires weapons grade Lithium only produced in Russia and China. Lithium 6 only makes up 4% of all Lithium on Earth, it's incredibly scarce. We should be focusing on what we know already works and actually is abundant--Fission.

I might be wrong but it seems to me = xz yz high magnetic coils could precess cosmic background radiation into matter

@smasher123ism

6 жыл бұрын

steven stallings You can’t make matter...

Small, Modular, Nuclear, Reactors. Distributed all over with multiple built in fail safes.

brillouin cold fusion confirmed at stanford