Thanks to your whole team for working on this milestone of human technological advancement! You can do it!

@tokamakenergy6400

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you :-)

Why is our UK media so obsessive about reporting on American Tech billionaires and there space programs /aspirations when you are on the verge of truly changing the future for the good of all. Let’s hope it goes well for ST40, let fusion commence!

@Marcus_A_Bishop

3 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing your comment is mostly about Elon Musk? He's extremely popular all around the world They're billionaires. Could the UK media be getting paid by some of them? Or maybe people are just more interested in space exploration and or the aspirations of the opulent? IDK I'm an American myself so I have little experience with UK media.

@TCBYEAHCUZ

3 жыл бұрын

Progress just seems to be happening faster with reuseable launch vehicles compared to fusion which seems to be stalled for the past 50 years. Ofc I understand actually that is not the case and that fusion power has been steadily increasing, now it is almost at break even outputs. I am very glad that Fusion is becoming commercialized, hopefully one of the startups figure it out finally.

@streaky81

3 жыл бұрын

Stealth mode is best, shock the world when the Nobel for Q>1 is awarded.

Just remember: you folks are literally saving the world

Wishing you all the best with fingers crossed! This is an exceptional project.

@tokamakenergy6400

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@AndreasDelleske

3 жыл бұрын

If we want to spend much more money for energy as renewable energies and have working plants not before 2 degrees temperature raise has been reached, yes. And I’m sure a few people can make a lot of money because again it’s centralized. We don’t have the time anymore. Is it so friggin hard to understand?!? Climate change is about maths. Do they do maths at all? You can order wind turbines, photovoltaics NOW. Is that not known? Tesla will provide better batteries soon and the rest of storage must be made with hydrogen / methane from renewable hydrogen and CHP. I am appalled about the ignorance, everywhere. Sic transit gloria mundi.

@markemerson8399

3 жыл бұрын

@@AndreasDelleske No need to get so worked up. We can have both.

@naterab20

3 жыл бұрын

@@AndreasDelleske wind turbines and photovoltaics will NEVER provide enough energy to satisfy our current energy demands. Never. (Exception for photovoltaics if we can figure out how to wirelessly beam energy from space).

@derekstannett8477

3 жыл бұрын

@@AndreasDelleske Of course you have a point. Fusion is not realistically going to contribute significantly to 2050 goals. You are however assuming that those that support Fusion R&D don't support other renewables. I would prefer to think our common concerns (and clearly passion) for the future keep us away from a polarising debate around the very broad set of solutions we undoubtedly need.

Talking about CoVid as "quite an interesting obstacle" is legendary. Thank you for the insights!

As someone who worked as an engineer for 8 years on a similar experimental Tokamak (de Varennes) in Montreal, I am excited to see this venture go operational soon.

Great to see another video. Hopefully we will see more as you start coming on line. Fingers crossed for maximum success and so refreshing that we get to share in the excitement with the team.

@tokamakenergy6400

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the support and for sharing our excitement :-) Yes, we will keep you updated.

Thank you for the update! Looking forward to hearing more as you get through commissioning and initial tests.

Get in there lads!

@jondonnelly4831

3 жыл бұрын

Turn it off first though!

Looking forward to seeing this in action, keep up the great work!

Great, long awaited update and thoroughly looking forward to you smashing the goal of 100,000,000! Love the diversity and passion everyone has at this company; this truly is the safe and abundant future for all.

You better put a post it note on the plug to remind the cleaners not to unplug it when looking for a socket to power their dyson.

@tokamakenergy6400

3 жыл бұрын

ha ha :-D That would be inconvenient!

Wishing the whole team and everybody involved succes.

@tokamakenergy6400

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much.

Can’t imagine designing and building something so complex, so impressive to see.

Great work guys. Can’t wait to see the results.

Awesome work. Congrats!!

Great video. Thanks for the update!

This is so exciting! Wishing you all the best :)

@tokamakenergy6400

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!

Go, go,go! Great job

wow that is impressive engineering I wish you the best with the project

@tokamakenergy6400

3 жыл бұрын

:-) Thank you

For those wondering about what Tokomak stands for, quoting the Wikipedia: "((то)роидальная (ка)мера с (ма)гнитными (ка)тушками) "A tokamak (/ˈtoʊkəmæk/; Russian: токамáк) is a device which uses a powerful magnetic field to confine plasma in the shape of a torus. The tokamak is one of several types of magnetic confinement devices being developed to produce controlled thermonuclear fusion power. As of 2020, it is the leading candidate for a practical fusion reactor.[1] Tokamaks were initially conceptualized in the 1950s by Soviet physicists Igor Tamm and Andrei Sakharov, inspired by a letter by Oleg Lavrentiev. The first working tokamak was attributed to the work of Natan Yavlinsky on the T-1 in 1958.[". It's not a short time solution but then again Jules Verne publish his novel "From the Earth to the Moon", in 1865. Some things take more time to accomplice.

Awesome! The best of luck to you!

Huge project. We need you

That stop-motion build up is fantastic!

@tokamakenergy6400

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Great stuff... loooking forward to your success to 100m°C...

I'm excited as well.

Exciting stuff ! 👍

Seems like April will be an exciting month, if not May. I would like to request a live stream of the first fully operational test. A similar live stream to the ones SpaceX does for its SN tests.

@tokamakenergy6400

3 жыл бұрын

Noted. But I don't think it would look as good as a spacecraft taking off!

@Scott_C

3 жыл бұрын

@@tokamakenergy6400 Visuals help but don't really matter. This type of amazing work needs to become as televised as A rocket launch! If y'all want to make it just as engaging, publish a time line of expected events similar to how rockets have a list of actions it needs to take to accomplish its goals. Then stream the event. I'm sure someone will want to present or do voice-over, like Tim Dodd "every day astronaut" : someone who's good at presenting technical info in an entertaining way, preferably someone who is excited about electricity and technology and futurism. If no one steps up you can have a public record of what has been done and people will flock to find out more.

@TCBYEAHCUZ

3 жыл бұрын

@@tokamakenergy6400 Having a public relation is a good idea.

Proud of you all, good luck!

GREAT JOB ALL OF YOU!!!! Keep up the hard work, your technology will save the planet. Go Fusion!!

Very exciting

Wow! Excellent progress under difficult conditions. Surprised that the Bio-shield is now in place, would that be for the 100 Million C (Kelvin?) campaign as you expect some fusion events and energetic neutrons from ST40, to shield from the Neutral Beam injectors or planning for future Deuterium / Tritium test shots on ST40?

@tokamakenergy6400

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, as part of reaching 100 million degree temperatures there may be some fusion neutrons produced, so we're making sure we're prepared!

I quite enjoyed the "cut" _right_ before the swab goes into the nostril.

Exciting times 🤞

is it capable of synchronizing the cardinal grand meters, since the power is produced by modial interaction of the magneto reluctance and capacitive diractanse ?

Is that Diagnostic Neutral Beam Injector used exclusively for diagnostics? I'm asking this because that seems for me too bulky to be a low power diagnostic beam.

Very exciting, I can’t wait to here more! I was wondering if there was an update on ST-F1 progress/timelines?

@Gomlmon99

3 жыл бұрын

@MichaelKingsfordGray you what now??

Will you be measuring gravametrics at the center of the device to identify any distortions or out break events that distrupt the fusion process?

Engineering is amazing.

JUst curious, not critical. What was the plasma temperature of MAST when I visited in 2008? Also there wasn't a bio shield last time. What radiation are you expecting (levels and type)? My early life was spent in developing and standardising measurement for radiation protection and health physics - but only up to 2MeV Gamma and all the usual alpha and beta radiation, "Fast" Neutrons were 40KeV. I imagine fusion product neutrons will be a bit nippier? etc. Good luck with firing it up. Like the end of the fifth element?

Fingers crossed!! Cutting edge you are! If you ask me, the world should be investing in this *before* space flight. I love them both, but we are going to need a way to produce a massive amount of energy without fossil fuels in a safe way. Fusion is that solution - if we can get it to net positive and scalable (in both directions).

Target temperature is easily attainable with intrinsic regenerative process (an explosion) not so extrinsically via an analog process (closed loop regulation). The alternative approach may by pulsed regenerative plasma approach. Ten times the traget temperature is easy. Namely the plasmoid. Advantage? Does not intrinsically enter a runaway process also no harmful byproduct.

Sooo many questions! What would be the product of the fusion? Helium? Or would it continue until it's too dense like iron or something? How long does fuel last? Does it have a continuous source of fuel ( being pumped in or something)? How do you remove the fused particles once you no longer have fusion happening, and how would the particles be cooled? I'm basically imagining a mini sun, how would you control it? How do you prevent it from exploding? I'm assuming the pressure at the core of the sun aids in fusion, do the magnetic fields create a sort of pressure too? or are they just keep plasma from touching the chamber? Could the fusion eventually create it's own magnetic field? And could that cause issues for containment if too strong? Edit: Is the imagining of a mini sun an incorrect representation of what fusion is trying to achieve?

@miles2378

3 жыл бұрын

The fusion stops when the magnetic bottle colapses and when the heating (electron beam,neutral particle, microwave) system stops working and the plasma expands it cools down. It basicle cant explode.

@Marcus_A_Bishop

3 жыл бұрын

@@miles2378 Interesting, thanks for the reply.

What materials can withstand the 100 million degrees temperature here

Can you please give us some idea about the timeline of this project?

I hope it can run over 100 percent efficiency.

only 30 more years! I have been waiting 40 years only to see those 30 years keep being 30 years.

@Ikbeneengeit

3 жыл бұрын

They didn't have high temperature superconductors 30 years ago. Q values have been steadily increasing and we have designs being built now that produce net positive energy. These will be running this decade, not in 30 years.

When will this tecnology be ready to use? When do you think will this be implied to produce the daily Energy that is now created with coal, nuclear etc etc?

@tokamakenergy6400

3 жыл бұрын

Hoping to demonstrate commercial viability by early 2030s. Yes, ideally fusion technology would replace non-variable energy resources like fossil fuels.

Following this project with keen interest, go team. Once you've reached 1Million C and possibly not achieved fusion, will you look at increasing the temperature further, is that feasible?

@tokamakenergy6400

3 жыл бұрын

100 million degrees is like the gateway to fusion--it's the ball-park of fusion temperatures. We will see how things go in ST40, but we have plans for future devices that will demonstrate the technology further and achieve fusion.

@davidbranney3924

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome, many thanks for the reply. Once you hit 100 Million C and hopefully get sustained fusion will that be the point where you get positive power, i.e. more power out than put in?

This explains why you've been relatively quiet for a while. That looks like a pile of work. An explanation of why you've put up a big wall now and didn't need one before would be of interest. Just a more energetic system?

@tokamakenergy6400

3 жыл бұрын

We are going to achieve higher temperatures in ST40 now, and that means that there's a chance that fusion reactions will happen and neutrons will be produced. So the wall will protect people in the building from any energetic neutrons. In future power stations the energy of the neutrons will be captured to create heat and make electricity, but not in ST40.

@robertoaraujo9834

3 жыл бұрын

@@tokamakenergy6400 what date are you thimking for the 100 millon degres might be achieved? Excuse my english Is not so good...I speak español..

@xxwookey

3 жыл бұрын

@@tokamakenergy6400 Right. I guess we are all looking forward to some energetic neutrons :-)

Currently Approximately, How much they are investing and How much Gaining ?.. Energy

Is this reactor project aiming to achieve break even energy output? i.e. not necessarily going to actually harness that energy, but prove that break even is possible?

@tokamakenergy6400

3 жыл бұрын

No. This machine aims to reach fusion temperatures. We plan to build another tokamak with high temperature superconducting magnets to achieve breakeven.

@TCBYEAHCUZ

3 жыл бұрын

@@tokamakenergy6400Thank you for the reply, very exciting to see more smart people work towards something beneficial. Btw will you be employing REBCO superconductors on the next project after this one or are you already employing them on even this project?

Ones you guys have worked that, could you get started on hoverboards next?

@tokamakenergy6400

3 жыл бұрын

We'll put it on the list ;-)

I cant wait for this to happen!!!! This could change the world for the better..... and the world badly needs that right now lol!

is this the same tech. used in cern?

What is the electric bill for that building?

@lawrencemanning

3 жыл бұрын

I know they will eventually make more then they use, but in the meantime I hope they are not on a pre pay meter.

@smile768

3 жыл бұрын

It’s ok they have an extension lead going to the next door neighbor.

yo this is epic like fusion is challenging but you epic people are a huge helo to make humans basically bottle the sun and you are taking on challenges like making stable plasma 100,000,000 degrees celsius fusion is our epic future but I really want to make one but underground 1000 meters deep thank you for this

The complexity is absurd - sad but true.

Good luck to all the males, females, engineers and technicians at Tokamak Energy!

Where is this plant located ?

So that sounds like maybe... April or May for first plasma? :D

@tokamakenergy6400

3 жыл бұрын

Hopefully sooner. Watch this space!

Awesome,on yer Brits

At least the fact that it didn't take you guys 30 years to get to your stage makes me excited. If it turns out there is a better way to reach the parameters - you didn't spend half your life on one project

@tokamakenergy6400

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Yes, we're proud of our progress :-)

Who is the senior researcher of ST40?

Our Cathedral

THIS TIME IT WILL WORK .TEMP CONTROL OK COOLING OK.MAGNETIC FIELD NEARLY THERE.SIZE ??

I thought we were only up to sn11. 😉

So it is still plasma at this temperature. There is no 5th state of matter. Why dos plasma have such an extreme temperature range.

@tokamakenergy6400

3 жыл бұрын

That is a very interesting question. I suppose that because once the electrons are stripped from the nucleus and the individual charges are free, then any extra energy goes into accelerating the individual particles rather than changing the "form" of the matter any further. There are some other unusual states of matter like the Bose-Einstein Condensate but these aren't seen in everyday life.

How can we invest in your company?

@tokamakenergy6400

3 жыл бұрын

You can enquire via the website: www.tokamakenergy.co.uk

This must make it to commercial use, stakes too high for failure. HUGE responsibility.

250,000 amps - we tried to fuse but fried a fuse

If a strange man with a briefcase gives you a rare crystal to put in the beam. PLEASE DON'T DO IT!

Just think how many TikTok videos and Bitcoin mining this new fusion reactor will power!! Wow!! The future seems bright. 🤔

can we shrink this into an electric car, hate those plug-ins.......The Jetsons (September 23, 1962 to March 17, 1963) by 2040?

Hopefully, prospective outputs of this technology will finally rid the landscape of those awful wind turbines. Southern Ontario here in Canada is littered...

I'll check back in 30 years. Hey, here's an idea, work on developing a new solar technology that's more than 60 or 70% efficient. If you do succeed with fusion, I'll still be paying the giant power company for power. If I can put affordable solar on my roof, with a battery system like the Tesla power wall, I can tell the big power company to piss off.

@tokamakenergy6400

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, definitely, go ahead! It's a great idea to put a solar panel on your roof. We should be using every clean technology we can, and if you can generate your own power without being in thrall to the giant power companies then that's a real benefit to you. But (depending on where you live) I'm sure that when it's cold and dark and you don't have enough solar power to run your lights and your heating and your oven and your TV, you'll be really glad that the giant power company can sell you some fusion-powered electricity. Or that the fusion-powered hydrogen/synthetic fuels plant can create enough clean fuels for us to keep flying and shipping goods around the world. Or that the fusion power station can provide heat to keep industries like steel and cement going for construction. Less than 20% of global energy is electricity. So yes, the solar panels on your roof will help, but we are going to need a whole lot more if we are going to maintain our lifestyles and improve the lives of others in developing countries.

You Tube is absolutely awash with upbeat videos about fusion power. It is impossible for a scientifically trained layman to get to the real facts. Could someone comment on the accuracy of these statements: The only fusion experiment in the world to use a tritium/deuterium plasma, and thus to obtain fusion power output is JET, and it only ran for 5 seconds. No one has succeeded in breeding tritium from lithium, which is absolutely essential for a commercial power plant. No one has achieved more fusion energy than power input to the plasma. Inertial fusion is in an even worse state than magnetic confinement fusion. The Americans have spent huge sums on their National Ignition Facility, without achieving break even on energy. Their massive lasers can only fire twice a day. They need to increase this to 10/second for commercial amounts of energy. Even ITER will not produce any power until 2035 at the earliest. Commercial fusion power cannot happen until 2100 But I still think it is worth trying, mankind really needs it to work. It is more important than the Large Hadron Collider , which has no practical application, and costs just as much.

@tokamakenergy6400

3 жыл бұрын

We can comment, though others might want to chip in. 1. JET. No, not the only experiment to use D-T. The US tokamak TFTR also used DT fuel in the 1990s and achieved fusion. I think both JET and TFTR probably ran for less than 5 seconds. 2. There are designs of lithium blanket modules to be tested on ITER. Lithium breeding has never yet been tested in a real fusion reactor. 3. Yes, no one has yet exceeded the energy breakeven point and got more energy out of the plasma than was put in. World record is 70% out. 4. Not sure we can comment on laser fusion being in a "worse state" than magnetic confinement fusion. We think MCF is in a pretty good state :-) We see steady progress. Even NIF scientists have made good progress on improving the compression of their pellets and better understanding instabilities. Like you say about CERN, it's all useful fundamental physics information and an increase in knowledge always leads to spinouts and new technologies eventually. And laser technology is also improving all the time too. 5. Yes, ITER aims to turn on later this decade and start DT experiments ~2035. The results of their studies will be scientifically interesting, but many start-ups hope to have demonstrated breakeven by then and hopefully even electricity production. Ideally we'd like to start commercial demonstration and roll-out in the 2030s for wider deployment in the 2040s to start impacting climate targets. It will be a big push.

@cosmolittle1395

3 жыл бұрын

@@tokamakenergy6400 Thank you for your replies. I certainly did not intend to disparage all the thousands of scientists and engineers that have spent their entire lives working on the fusion problem. However visible progress has been quite slow , at least compared to the amazing developments in electronics and computing in the last 50 years. It is evidently the most difficult technical problem that man has ever attempted. As a layman, I have followed progress in fusion research every since JET started working in the 1990s. I have one question to which I have been unable to find an answer: All tokamaks seem to rely on a plasma current, driven by induction from the central solenoid. As the solenoid current has to be ramped up or down ( As any student knows, transformers do not work with DC ), eventually the current ramp must reverse direction, and the plasma current will also stop and then be restarted with the current in the opposite direction. Does this mean that the plasma disappears when the current reverses? Does this mean that tokamaks must always work in a pulsed mode? I see that ITER is intended to run for 600 seconds, however it must then be restarted. One wonders how long the restart will take. It is difficult to see how a tokamak power station can provide reliable electricity generation when continuously starting and stopping. The next step after ITER is called DEMO, but searching for this returns little information on continuous operation. Is there an answer to making MCF work continuously? To return to your ST40 design, are you intending to use DT plasma, and get a value for the Q? Or can you use deuterium plasma and get some fusions, and extrapolate the performance using DT. Presumably once you use DT, the whole reactor becomes radioactive, and that pretty much terminates any new development.

A BLACK HOLE. Fusion any day now. SMRs actually work. Feeback & control is not up to the task, much less the materials.

@tokamakenergy6400

3 жыл бұрын

We believe we need to use every technology we have in order to secure a sustainable CO2-free future. SMRs are part of that pathway and that's great. But we also want to try and improve and make things better, which is why we are working on fusion. There will be space in the energy market for a lot of players, so if you also have a vision of a clean energy future then we all need to work together.

So they have a tokamak and all they talk is corona?! Wtf!

@tokamakenergy6400

3 жыл бұрын

Just giving you the context. A lot has changed in the way we work over the past year, so we can't ignore it, although we are all looking forward to moving on from it. Fortunately we have found ways of working so that we can still make good progress, and we hope we'll be able to tell you more about the tokamak and the physics soon :-)

@jimgraham6722

3 жыл бұрын

@@tokamakenergy6400 Well said and well done, good luck.

Where is that pesky electon ? Not in the cards. Give it a rest. Not really needed. SMRs actually work.

@tokamakenergy6400

3 жыл бұрын

We believe we need to use every technology we have in order to secure a sustainable CO2-free future. SMRs are part of that pathway and that's great. But we also want to try and improve and make things better, which is why we are working on fusion. There will be space in the energy market for a lot of players, so if you also have a vision of a clean energy future then we all need to work together.

OMG! Blah, blah, blah, blah. It’s clear why fusion is 49 years away! Not even a mention of fusion here. We’ve been spinning up tokomaks for 50 years or more. Is this just a spin video for naive investors?

@tokamakenergy6400

3 жыл бұрын

Actually, it's for our followers who like to see the machines and the tech and hear about our progress. We have videos on What is fusion? etc. What would you like to hear about?

wont work...haaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. wrong shape.

There are so many better, simpler, and realistic solutions to energy production, capture, and conservaton than 100 million degree nuclear fusion (if it's ever achieved) that projects like this one have become increasingly irrelevant.

@tokamakenergy6400

3 жыл бұрын

Oh brilliant. We look forward to seeing them.

Give it up, you’re waisting our money.

@tokamakenergy6400

3 жыл бұрын

Not your money, surely? If you're a shareholder maybe you should bring it up at the board meeting.

@scoobyduh8878

3 жыл бұрын

@@tokamakenergy6400 is governments money, it is probably part of his money

@radicalrodriguez5912

3 жыл бұрын

Spell properly first

Oh FFS hire a real voice yours makes my ears bleed.

@tokamakenergy6400

3 жыл бұрын

We're sorry you don't like it. We prefer to show you real people working on this project rather than actors.