You do realize that this facility has nothing to do with practical fusion energy, right? These are just tiny tiny H-bombs. We've made fusion plenty of times before using nuclear explosives, but that's politically difficult these days, so rather than full scale weapons tests, they are using these tiny fusion explosions to research weapons design.
Very informative, a great primer. Need a copy for my student. For the critics. When you attain perfection cast the first stone. Try the Joe Friday approach and focus on the facts, and let people find their own conclusions.
Humanity might need it eventually. With all natural stars having an eventual death the possibility of an artificial one is awesome news for the continued existence of our species in the far off future.
I also don't understand how this concept is scalable. The idea alone of compressing objects with lasers somehow logically leads to a dead end for continuous power generation. Correct me if I'm way off base, but ITER or even a stellarator both seem like more efficient and pragmatic ways of going about fusion power.
Can somebody explain to me how it is that fusion could be considered a 'clean' source of energy? A hydrogen bomb ('fusion' bomb) releases tremendous amounts of radioactivity. A fusion reactor also produces great amounts of radioactivity in the form of neutrons and/or tritium. Neutrons can pass through any solid. Over time they cause most metals to deteriorate and become brittle. What will we build containment vessels out of? How will we dispose of the highly radioactive cont. vessels after use?
Well he has to present his ideas to a broad range of people- what do you think hes going to use Pure Science variables and equations to explain his point?
The Mayans did not predict the end, they predicted a new dawn for mankind and the end of an age relying on the sun from afar to an age where we embrace the sun in our arms. People should worry not.
But isnt global warming along with depleting oil the whole reason why we are investing in fusion along with other possible energy sources? Investors arent interested in what fusion is but rather what it can do for humanity.
this guy brings up a lot of hearsay about green house gasses. Venus is also 108,208,000 km, earth is 149,598,261 km and furthest 227,939,100 km mars. they will be different temperatures. he needs to measure the most effective green house gas we have on earth WATER. In thermodynamics we learn things have an energy exchange rate. water being 1 to 1 CO2 has a rate of .27 to 1. meaning not as effective plus the last ICE AGE we had 3 times the CO2
Further more...by your logic, there is no such thing as a "pollutant". All vapors are "natural gas". Arsenic can be found in nature; but that hardly means I should dump it in your water supply. If I did so, I would be polluting. Or would I? It is a natural element!
Why are the majority of programs on this aimed directly grade school children or seemingly at a grade school level? I would like some physics please, not rehashing global carbon and yadda yadda. What are the projected ratios of energy input to output? How do you get continuous output from inserting these pellets via precise robotics? Is there anything around for the scientifically-but-not-professional savvy people in an hour to 2 hour presentation on the NIF?
@imnormalyournot Of course CO2 is a pollutant. But, so is oxygen. Anything is a pollutant which dramatically changes the atmospheric composition and can alter earth's climate. In earth's early days, there was much less free-standing oxygen in the atmosphere. Bacteria colonies produced oxygen as a waste product...thereby filling the atmosphere with the oxygen that was poisonous and killed them. What makes both of these things "pollutants" in their respective time periods was the amount rel
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You do realize that this facility has nothing to do with practical fusion energy, right? These are just tiny tiny H-bombs. We've made fusion plenty of times before using nuclear explosives, but that's politically difficult these days, so rather than full scale weapons tests, they are using these tiny fusion explosions to research weapons design.
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Very informative, a great primer. Need a copy for my student. For the critics. When you attain perfection cast the first stone. Try the Joe Friday approach and focus on the facts, and let people find their own conclusions.
The way he's talking to the audience it's like they're all about 10.
Where are the captions? I was told that in NC all video needed to be captioned. I rely on them....
most most excellent. thank you for posting.
Will be nice when we put fusion reactors in orbit.... Distribution of energy would be more efficient...
Bernard Forand cool indescribable and on the moon Venus and mars
Humanity might need it eventually. With all natural stars having an eventual death the possibility of an artificial one is awesome news for the continued existence of our species in the far off future.
a tiny star as in a fusion reaction right? thats not scheduled till next year at the least as stated on the site and other videos.
I also don't understand how this concept is scalable. The idea alone of compressing objects with lasers somehow logically leads to a dead end for continuous power generation. Correct me if I'm way off base, but ITER or even a stellarator both seem like more efficient and pragmatic ways of going about fusion power.
Can somebody explain to me how it is that fusion could be considered a 'clean' source of energy? A hydrogen bomb ('fusion' bomb) releases tremendous amounts of radioactivity. A fusion reactor also produces great amounts of radioactivity in the form of neutrons and/or tritium. Neutrons can pass through any solid. Over time they cause most metals to deteriorate and become brittle. What will we build containment vessels out of? How will we dispose of the highly radioactive cont. vessels after use?
yes, of course, because the U.S. would rather have slightly more powerful bombs than unlimited clean energy
Wow 58 minutes, too much for me, but good video.
Well he has to present his ideas to a broad range of people- what do you think hes going to use Pure Science variables and equations to explain his point?
The Mayans did not predict the end, they predicted a new dawn for mankind and the end of an age relying on the sun from afar to an age where we embrace the sun in our arms. People should worry not.
But isnt global warming along with depleting oil the whole reason why we are investing in fusion along with other possible energy sources? Investors arent interested in what fusion is but rather what it can do for humanity.
I hope this project dosen't back fire. The launch date is in 2012. Oh great!!!!
this guy brings up a lot of hearsay about green house gasses. Venus is also 108,208,000 km, earth is 149,598,261 km and furthest 227,939,100 km mars. they will be different temperatures. he needs to measure the most effective green house gas we have on earth WATER. In thermodynamics we learn things have an energy exchange rate. water being 1 to 1 CO2 has a rate of .27 to 1. meaning not as effective plus the last ICE AGE we had 3 times the CO2
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Further more...by your logic, there is no such thing as a "pollutant". All vapors are "natural gas". Arsenic can be found in nature; but that hardly means I should dump it in your water supply. If I did so, I would be polluting. Or would I? It is a natural element!
Why are the majority of programs on this aimed directly grade school children or seemingly at a grade school level? I would like some physics please, not rehashing global carbon and yadda yadda.
What are the projected ratios of energy input to output? How do you get continuous output from inserting these pellets via precise robotics? Is there anything around for the scientifically-but-not-professional savvy people in an hour to 2 hour presentation on the NIF?
This is quite renewable once up and running... all else is NON renewable - It takes lots of windmills to build a windmill... !
@schaefer39 even better they say end of 2012...like in december? -_-
@Weezot97 You're not even wrong, so, I won't bother.
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Of course CO2 is a pollutant. But, so is oxygen. Anything is a pollutant which dramatically changes the atmospheric composition and can alter earth's climate. In earth's early days, there was much less free-standing oxygen in the atmosphere. Bacteria colonies produced oxygen as a waste product...thereby filling the atmosphere with the oxygen that was poisonous and killed them. What makes both of these things "pollutants" in their respective time periods was the amount rel
well... if ur rich, buying cars contributes to consumption and saves the economy and the poor
LOLO- ur so lucky ur my girl...UR NEVER GETTING ANY MORE PRESENTS FROM ME EVER!
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Get to the point!
GW is BS
horrible speaker!!!