Fusion in 30 years? ITER update [2020]

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    Fusion - in 30 years? ITER update [2020]
    It is the most powerful machine ever built by man, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, ITER, has reached yet another milestone on November 7, 2019. The concrete base which will house the reactor has been finished. Next step is to get the roof going and eventually the reactor itself.
    This is good news for all participating countries in this monumental task, paving the way for a future with clean and unlimited energy. The roadmap remains unchanged with its first test runs happening around 2025. Many consider ITER to be the last step in this experimental endeavor spanning back more than 60 years of research and development.
    But ITER is only an experiment that will be used to prove 5 main concepts:
    1. Produce 500 MW of fusion power
    2. Demonstrate the integrated operation of technologies for a fusion power plant
    3. Achieve a deuterium-tritium plasma in which the reaction is sustained through internal heating
    4. Test tritium breeding
    5. Demonstrate the safety characteristics of a fusion device
    Sources
    ITER
    www.iter.org/mach/Magnets
    www.iter.org/sci/whatisfusion
    www.iter.org/proj/iterhistory
    www.iter.org/mach
    Wiki
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear...
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokamak
    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liqui...
    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yttri...
    Other
    www.quora.com/Why-is-profitab...
    www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/10...
    news.mit.edu/2018/mit-newly-fo...
    news.mit.edu/2018/new-era-fusi...
    www.nature.com/articles/d4158...
    NOTE: The animations in my videos take a substantial amount of time to make, so please be patient. I am trying to get a video per week, but some times it takes longer.
    All Animations done in house with Blender EEVEE by Zer0
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  • @SubjectZeroScience
    @SubjectZeroScience  4 роки тому +495

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

    • @Kioselis
      @Kioselis 4 роки тому +7

      I love your channel, keep it up

    • @liveinfra6820
      @liveinfra6820 4 роки тому +12

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

    • @costaseco2078
      @costaseco2078 4 роки тому +4

      Excellent info, excellent presentation, subscribed

    • @user-be4yc2vr5c
      @user-be4yc2vr5c 4 роки тому +10

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

    • @blaze1148
      @blaze1148 4 роки тому +3

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

  • @yangshi7753
    @yangshi7753 4 роки тому +2575

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

    • @ItsMeChillTyme
      @ItsMeChillTyme 4 роки тому +144

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

    • @Steelrat1994
      @Steelrat1994 4 роки тому +36

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

    • @divertechnology
      @divertechnology 4 роки тому +15

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

    • @LittleolBitty
      @LittleolBitty 4 роки тому +3

      Looks like a tokemak concept of 30 years ago.

    • @belpylol9661
      @belpylol9661 4 роки тому

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

  • @RobCabreraCh
    @RobCabreraCh 4 роки тому +154

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

    • @shubhshah4192
      @shubhshah4192 3 роки тому +3

      Which University?

    • @RobCabreraCh
      @RobCabreraCh 3 роки тому +16

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

    • @shubhshah4192
      @shubhshah4192 3 роки тому

      @@RobCabreraCh alright thanks!

    • @1239719
      @1239719 3 роки тому

      Esto va por ti Luis Raúl Sánchez

    • @RobCabreraCh
      @RobCabreraCh 2 роки тому +9

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

  • @yahyaalzahrani1481
    @yahyaalzahrani1481 4 роки тому +102

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

  • @gilligancharliebrown399
    @gilligancharliebrown399 4 роки тому +1244

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

    • @nin1ten1do
      @nin1ten1do 4 роки тому +29

      ty exacly acurate tokamak wil never gona work!

    • @dm0065
      @dm0065 4 роки тому +135

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

    • @cesteres
      @cesteres 4 роки тому +8

      Idk the working principles seem primitive somehow

    • @firefox5926
      @firefox5926 4 роки тому +12

      god its going up not down lol

    • @adrianshingler9783
      @adrianshingler9783 4 роки тому +6

      cesteres you are joking I take it? 😆😆😆

  • @heavylifter315
    @heavylifter315 4 роки тому +625

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

    • @GargaGaming
      @GargaGaming 4 роки тому +14

      Sound good, doesn't work.

    • @tgmtf5963
      @tgmtf5963 4 роки тому +17

      We need AI first

    • @Azakadune
      @Azakadune 4 роки тому +68

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

    • @aiGeis
      @aiGeis 4 роки тому +50

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

    • @Steelrat1994
      @Steelrat1994 4 роки тому +16

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

  • @thomasm5714
    @thomasm5714 4 роки тому +784

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

    • @cmdrTremyss
      @cmdrTremyss 4 роки тому +8

      thank you!

    • @FreelancerFreak
      @FreelancerFreak 4 роки тому +69

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

    • @sanjosemike3137
      @sanjosemike3137 4 роки тому +4

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

    • @georgegibson707
      @georgegibson707 4 роки тому +16

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

    • @C99631
      @C99631 4 роки тому +8

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

  • @lduts5623
    @lduts5623 4 роки тому +763

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

    • @soaringvulture
      @soaringvulture 4 роки тому +61

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

    • @warpspeed8305
      @warpspeed8305 4 роки тому +3

      Death 30 years away maybe. But why taxes?

    • @davisdf3064
      @davisdf3064 4 роки тому +25

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

    • @geekjokes8458
      @geekjokes8458 4 роки тому +5

      and the James Webb telescope being 5 years away

    • @sebastianzaharia8558
      @sebastianzaharia8558 4 роки тому +3

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

  • @scottmclennan9231
    @scottmclennan9231 4 роки тому +79

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

    • @diablo.the.cheater
      @diablo.the.cheater 4 роки тому +5

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

    • @PSXuploads
      @PSXuploads 3 роки тому

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

    • @angrymokyuu1951
      @angrymokyuu1951 3 роки тому +1

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

    • @JB52520
      @JB52520 3 роки тому

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

    • @angrymokyuu1951
      @angrymokyuu1951 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @NOBOX7
    @NOBOX7 4 роки тому +878

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

    • @IonorReasSpamGenerator
      @IonorReasSpamGenerator 4 роки тому +24

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

    • @DrWhom
      @DrWhom 4 роки тому

      engineers do not do non-linear PDEs that well

    • @TerenceKearns
      @TerenceKearns 4 роки тому +3

      Ponds and Fleischman gave us this exactly 30 years ago.

    • @ytrew9717
      @ytrew9717 4 роки тому +2

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

    • @kimfucku8074
      @kimfucku8074 4 роки тому

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

  • @phoule76
    @phoule76 4 роки тому +850

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

    • @outsideworld76
      @outsideworld76 4 роки тому +68

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

    • @abhishekkumar55111
      @abhishekkumar55111 4 роки тому +14

      More like hold my economics

    • @spoonikle
      @spoonikle 4 роки тому +29

      ITER is on time.

    • @phildurre9492
      @phildurre9492 4 роки тому +5

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

    • @Sevensixtytwo
      @Sevensixtytwo 4 роки тому

      Just check Finnish Olkiluoto 3 NPP construction.

  • @thebarkingmouse
    @thebarkingmouse 4 роки тому +5

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

  • @manspreader
    @manspreader 4 роки тому +3

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

  • @evanbailey6860
    @evanbailey6860 4 роки тому +407

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

  • @SocksWithSandals
    @SocksWithSandals 4 роки тому +178

    We may have fusion before the James Webb Telescope launches.

    • @84Supervisor
      @84Supervisor 4 роки тому +13

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

    • @maxgb2000real
      @maxgb2000real 3 роки тому +1

      Lmao

  • @tylercouto3644
    @tylercouto3644 4 роки тому +4

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

  • @SanjayT06
    @SanjayT06 4 роки тому +365

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

    • @sownheard
      @sownheard 4 роки тому +8

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

    • @Npmevlf
      @Npmevlf 4 роки тому +6

      people in 1920s : we seen this one before

    • @anhduc0913
      @anhduc0913 4 роки тому +7

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

    • @lebanemcarl68
      @lebanemcarl68 4 роки тому

      anh duc oil will run out

    • @NetworKrakle
      @NetworKrakle 4 роки тому

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

  • @boiyo1773
    @boiyo1773 4 роки тому +77

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

  • @loki8845
    @loki8845 4 роки тому +22

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

  • @DrWoodyII
    @DrWoodyII 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @thisflyingpotato4227
    @thisflyingpotato4227 4 роки тому +186

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

    • @GewelReal
      @GewelReal 4 роки тому +2

      what do you mean

    • @21335186z
      @21335186z 4 роки тому +2

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

    • @thisflyingpotato4227
      @thisflyingpotato4227 4 роки тому +2

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

    • @Toby704
      @Toby704 4 роки тому +22

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

    • @thisflyingpotato4227
      @thisflyingpotato4227 4 роки тому +7

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

  • @FurSedify
    @FurSedify 4 роки тому +36

    Dude your visuals are amazing, this video was so clean

    • @san4os94
      @san4os94 4 роки тому +8

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

  • @matteopeterlongo5007
    @matteopeterlongo5007 3 роки тому

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

  • @bilbo_gamers6417
    @bilbo_gamers6417 4 роки тому +2

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

  • @arrocoda3590
    @arrocoda3590 4 роки тому +312

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

    • @Garium87
      @Garium87 4 роки тому +15

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

    • @swank8508
      @swank8508 4 роки тому +25

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

    • @D4PPZ456
      @D4PPZ456 4 роки тому +1

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

    • @swank8508
      @swank8508 4 роки тому +3

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

    • @NetAndyCz
      @NetAndyCz 4 роки тому

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

  • @vvolchonok
    @vvolchonok 4 роки тому +182

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

  • @killianwoods3892
    @killianwoods3892 Рік тому

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

  • @naveenmukkatt5031
    @naveenmukkatt5031 4 роки тому

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

  • @AniVerseChannel
    @AniVerseChannel 4 роки тому +25

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

  • @kapilesh14
    @kapilesh14 4 роки тому +7

    The video quality is better than big media corporations👌

  • @MrAlexRadic
    @MrAlexRadic 3 роки тому

    awesome video man! quality is outstanding!

  • @denzali
    @denzali 4 роки тому

    This channel is REALLY good.
    Thorough information. 💪🏻

  • @taicanium
    @taicanium 4 роки тому +381

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

    • @HansLemurson
      @HansLemurson 4 роки тому +121

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

    • @hafeexius
      @hafeexius 4 роки тому +17

      Warp drives will be a reality before fusion reactors.

    • @MacXpert74
      @MacXpert74 4 роки тому +9

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

    • @VerisimilitudeDude
      @VerisimilitudeDude 4 роки тому +33

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

    • @taicanium
      @taicanium 4 роки тому +4

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

  • @mencken8
    @mencken8 4 роки тому +32

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

    • @MrSaemichlaus
      @MrSaemichlaus 4 роки тому

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

    • @richard--s
      @richard--s 4 роки тому +1

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

    • @IsomerSoma
      @IsomerSoma 4 роки тому

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

    • @richard--s
      @richard--s 4 роки тому

      ... didn't do it.

  • @Alessandro-nq3tm
    @Alessandro-nq3tm 4 роки тому +1

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

  • @PaulHigginbothamSr
    @PaulHigginbothamSr 4 роки тому +5

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

  • @matthiasliszt8490
    @matthiasliszt8490 4 роки тому +4

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

  • @sterlinglozalee9926
    @sterlinglozalee9926 4 роки тому +5

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

  • @johnberry6077
    @johnberry6077 2 роки тому +2

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

  • @DerPlasma
    @DerPlasma 4 роки тому +1

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

  • @Born2Losenot2win
    @Born2Losenot2win 4 роки тому +13

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

  • @troels1979
    @troels1979 4 роки тому +469

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

    • @jmitterii2
      @jmitterii2 4 роки тому +20

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

    • @doomiesama4741
      @doomiesama4741 4 роки тому

      Yes

    • @blameyourself4489
      @blameyourself4489 4 роки тому +6

      Let's see what lasts longer. Fusion or UA-cam ...

    • @Kosake82
      @Kosake82 4 роки тому +2

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

    • @mkzhero
      @mkzhero 4 роки тому +4

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

  • @mariiaperez91
    @mariiaperez91 4 роки тому

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

  • @rafakordaczek3275
    @rafakordaczek3275 3 роки тому

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

  • @dilanbartz7737
    @dilanbartz7737 4 роки тому +43

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

    • @tusharip
      @tusharip 4 роки тому +2

      I don't get it

    • @__mk_km__
      @__mk_km__ 4 роки тому +3

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

    • @sdhetan3hetsa
      @sdhetan3hetsa 4 роки тому +1

      What the hell

    • @tusharip
      @tusharip 4 роки тому

      China

    • @keithscott1957
      @keithscott1957 4 роки тому +4

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

  • @Sturmpionier03
    @Sturmpionier03 4 роки тому +109

    We may have fusion before the Star Citizen launches.

    • @happywhale1786
      @happywhale1786 4 роки тому +1

      i wanna my donate back.

    • @CeesaX
      @CeesaX 4 роки тому +8

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

    • @ArseneGray
      @ArseneGray 4 роки тому +5

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

    • @DonVigaDeFierro
      @DonVigaDeFierro 4 роки тому

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

    • @CountingStars333
      @CountingStars333 4 роки тому

      What will come first, fusion or Star citizen?

  • @blameyourself4489
    @blameyourself4489 4 роки тому

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

  • @jwinburn
    @jwinburn 4 роки тому +119

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

    • @johnkessels87
      @johnkessels87 4 роки тому +2

      Romana Winburn nope. Answers to questions resulting in more questions

    • @PaganShagger
      @PaganShagger 4 роки тому +3

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

    • @victorbourguignon6897
      @victorbourguignon6897 4 роки тому +2

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

    • @petergoestohollywood382
      @petergoestohollywood382 4 роки тому

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

    • @MarcusAu3relio
      @MarcusAu3relio 4 роки тому

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

  • @retiresoon5639
    @retiresoon5639 4 роки тому +5

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

  • @OpenGL4ever
    @OpenGL4ever 4 роки тому +6

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

    • @Oscar4u69
      @Oscar4u69 4 роки тому

      he said the right thing, you misunderstood what he said

  • @donsmith1198
    @donsmith1198 3 роки тому +2

    Great Scott!!!

  • @michelbruns
    @michelbruns 4 роки тому

    Amazing video, great animations, explanations, and information

  • @kimfucku8074
    @kimfucku8074 4 роки тому +8

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

    • @esecallum
      @esecallum 4 роки тому

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

    • @mrdesmit6038
      @mrdesmit6038 4 роки тому

      @@esecallum what?

    • @railgap
      @railgap 4 роки тому +1

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

    • @esecallum
      @esecallum 3 роки тому

      @BulletTraj What?

  • @maximilianspall
    @maximilianspall 4 роки тому +3

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

  • @camillecottereau9564
    @camillecottereau9564 4 роки тому +1

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

  • @susilohidayatsusilohidayat53
    @susilohidayatsusilohidayat53 2 роки тому

    I'm glad found this channel

  • @GrEzzTROL
    @GrEzzTROL 4 роки тому +51

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

    • @blaze1148
      @blaze1148 4 роки тому +3

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

    • @ousarlxsfjsbvbg8588
      @ousarlxsfjsbvbg8588 4 роки тому +2

      james83925 what are you talking about

    • @whatadag3748
      @whatadag3748 4 роки тому +1

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

    • @ulture
      @ulture 4 роки тому +4

      @@whatadag3748 6:40

    • @unnamedchannel1237
      @unnamedchannel1237 4 роки тому +1

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

  • @ryanrising2237
    @ryanrising2237 4 роки тому +35

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

    • @tavianarmstrong974
      @tavianarmstrong974 4 роки тому +2

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

    • @ValentineC137
      @ValentineC137 4 роки тому +3

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

    • @Carewolf
      @Carewolf 4 роки тому +1

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

    • @ValentineC137
      @ValentineC137 4 роки тому

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

  • @JohnDoe-fz5cz
    @JohnDoe-fz5cz 4 роки тому

    as usual, outstanding presentation.

  • @roderickcampbell2105
    @roderickcampbell2105 Рік тому

    Great report. Thanks.

  • @teddysurf
    @teddysurf 4 роки тому +138

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

    • @jonatancordoba7984
      @jonatancordoba7984 4 роки тому +10

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

    • @fredd298
      @fredd298 4 роки тому

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

    • @rixille
      @rixille 4 роки тому +7

      @@jonatancordoba7984 Competition brings innovation out for sure.

    • @urgandma
      @urgandma 4 роки тому +5

      @@rixille competition... And existential threats.

    • @kandysman86
      @kandysman86 4 роки тому +3

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

  • @AdlerMow
    @AdlerMow 4 роки тому +3

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

    • @antred11
      @antred11 4 роки тому

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

  • @thelostguide5021
    @thelostguide5021 4 роки тому

    amazing animations bro

  • @MrBodisha
    @MrBodisha 4 роки тому

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

  • @devinify
    @devinify 4 роки тому +356

    Tony Stark already built this in a cave.

    • @auramaster2068
      @auramaster2068 4 роки тому +8

      Wįþ& æ ;ő' ø$ šçřã]§

    • @tackontitan
      @tackontitan 4 роки тому +8

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

    • @serkanozkani
      @serkanozkani 4 роки тому

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

    • @midgetman4206
      @midgetman4206 4 роки тому +4

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

    • @mvmlego1212
      @mvmlego1212 4 роки тому

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

  • @Itshardtogetauser
    @Itshardtogetauser 4 роки тому +9

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

  • @GalenMarekOfficial
    @GalenMarekOfficial 4 роки тому

    Very nicely explained video :)

  • @somedude4805
    @somedude4805 3 роки тому

    Cool video. Just earned a sub.

  • @JohnJohansen2
    @JohnJohansen2 4 роки тому +30

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

    • @veduci22
      @veduci22 4 роки тому +12

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

    • @gregorymalchuk272
      @gregorymalchuk272 4 роки тому +5

      @@veduci22 I want spending on foreskin regeneration technology.

    • @JohnJohansen2
      @JohnJohansen2 4 роки тому +4

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

    • @JohnJohansen2
      @JohnJohansen2 4 роки тому +1

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

    • @JohnJohansen2
      @JohnJohansen2 4 роки тому +6

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

  • @cj09beira
    @cj09beira 4 роки тому +5

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

    • @AgentJRock805
      @AgentJRock805 4 роки тому +1

      Bruno gets it!

    • @DonVigaDeFierro
      @DonVigaDeFierro 4 роки тому +1

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

    • @spindrift2009
      @spindrift2009 3 роки тому

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

  • @Na7lasterone
    @Na7lasterone 4 роки тому +1

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

  • @mvmlego1212
    @mvmlego1212 4 роки тому

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

  • @MetalMario137
    @MetalMario137 4 роки тому +7

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

  • @prophet6722
    @prophet6722 4 роки тому +19

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

  • @jjeherrera
    @jjeherrera 4 роки тому

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

  • @mauricioriano1
    @mauricioriano1 4 роки тому

    Thanks, great explanation....

  • @SlavMarine
    @SlavMarine 4 роки тому +62

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

    • @realblindpenguin
      @realblindpenguin 4 роки тому +6

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

    • @midgetman4206
      @midgetman4206 4 роки тому +8

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

    • @shadowwolfmandan
      @shadowwolfmandan 4 роки тому +6

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

    • @gabriel300010
      @gabriel300010 4 роки тому +2

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

    • @VisualJoey
      @VisualJoey 4 роки тому +2

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

  • @oliverwunsch1743
    @oliverwunsch1743 4 роки тому +11

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

  • @philbucher
    @philbucher 4 роки тому

    Fifty years ago, when I graduated from college, we moved to Rochester, NY. Local news frequently told of the work being conducted nearby at the University of Rochester, and other locations, to develop commercial fusion energy technology. The researchers confidently predicted that we would see commercial fusion power in 20 years!
    So now here we are, 50 years later, and these scientists are predicting that we will have commercial fusion power in just .......... 20 years!
    That's real progress!

    • @Gomlmon99
      @Gomlmon99 4 роки тому

      philbucher it’s actually more like 60 years away atm

  • @dayabloom9634
    @dayabloom9634 2 роки тому

    This channel is insane

  • @seanmcdonald5859
    @seanmcdonald5859 4 роки тому +50

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

  • @cristianoronaldog.o.a.t4590
    @cristianoronaldog.o.a.t4590 4 роки тому +8

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

    • @DerPlasma
      @DerPlasma 4 роки тому

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

    • @UltraNyan
      @UltraNyan 4 роки тому

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

  • @MissNebulosity
    @MissNebulosity 4 роки тому

    Beautiful graphics.

  • @jaqennoone6863
    @jaqennoone6863 4 роки тому

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

  • @seb776
    @seb776 4 роки тому +5

    "Cave Johnson, we're done here"

  • @jwpierce07
    @jwpierce07 4 роки тому +5

    Fusion is the energy of the future and it always will be.

  • @medexamtoolsdotcom
    @medexamtoolsdotcom 4 роки тому +1

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

  • @vjpanopticon9319
    @vjpanopticon9319 4 роки тому

    What a relief...! Only 30 years!!!!
    Now we can all sleep sound.
    Well,..sweet dreams everyone!

  • @kitsuneknows6171
    @kitsuneknows6171 4 роки тому +8

    Guys does anyone notice how it says “I am a prisoner making UA-cam videos HELP” at 6:40

    • @daimyo7849
      @daimyo7849 4 роки тому

      Wtf. What's that about?

  • @YounesLayachi
    @YounesLayachi 4 роки тому +5

    8:23 "magnetic temperature" 😂

    • @Hexanitrobenzene
      @Hexanitrobenzene 4 роки тому

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

  • @MyHardyhar
    @MyHardyhar 4 роки тому

    I love the cave Johnson bit!

  • @o-anonium8653
    @o-anonium8653 4 роки тому +1

    Its pretty obvious that recreating the process of a star is not going to be some 10 year hack, so I really don't understand why people say it will never happen. Took thousands of years for us to even understand the building blocks of matter, let alone understanding more than our own planet.

  • @ColinJonesPonder
    @ColinJonesPonder 4 роки тому +16

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

  • @Zuhrey14000
    @Zuhrey14000 4 роки тому +5

    Note: HELP. I am a prisoner making UA-cam videos help this man out wtf

  • @caleborg5688
    @caleborg5688 4 роки тому

    Cave Johnson here, if you notice an inexplicable additional 30 years to the project, don't worry, that's just us using time vortexes to make sure our testing is up to par. Can't have Black Mesa compromising our product quality.

  • @aduenamz2569
    @aduenamz2569 4 роки тому

    this is a good channel.

  • @tjpprojects7192
    @tjpprojects7192 4 роки тому +11

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

    • @electroflame6188
      @electroflame6188 4 роки тому +1

      Nah a few of them are shilling for thorium

    • @antred11
      @antred11 4 роки тому +2

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

  • @Hexanitrobenzene
    @Hexanitrobenzene 4 роки тому +9

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

    • @jiehou2960
      @jiehou2960 4 роки тому +1

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

  • @priyaprabhat2657
    @priyaprabhat2657 4 роки тому

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

  • @wes2460
    @wes2460 4 роки тому +2

    I don't understand spending 50 billion on this when the Rossi E-Cat and other cold fusion machines have always worked but were always suppressed for some reason. Google is testing a machine that is the size of a dishwasher.