It's because scientists back then had no big computing power to their hands. They just did the math's and assumed that the reactor can be build a lot smaller than today's scientists know. Big computer simulations wich are available today make the assumptions alot more reliable. Sorry for bad english.
Fusion with such a small ammount of particles can do nothing. Just 8 Light minutes from you is one big reactor which is billions times heavier than Earth. Guess what. Spacetime is perfectly fine.
wow! that so very different!! just like the other day, I took off my shoes and then someone told me I was bare feet... well, I had sox on!!very different.
Llort boberson - I know all about nuclear fusion and I'll answer pretty much every mystery in this universe. But first of all, let me finish my beer....
Should definitely have taken 30 seconds to explain to the masses why fusion is different from fission; most people still don't get that it's non-toxic/basically god level energy creation
TheDuTangClan well see to explane this proces the reaction is very 1/2 of secondtn of atoms to primary fusions of plasma the first of the process for autonomous square of the fusion must be multiplied and duplicated for 12 of yours for your own. It is only for this proceses for this into making lamnent horizontally.
It's not nontoxic. If you observed fusion reactions of significant density without shielding you would still die from acute radiation exposure. The radiation fusion produces and more importantly the products do not have as high of a tendency to activate other materials or hang around. That's what makes it less risky
@Hose2wAcKiEr I keep wondering how do they plan to extract the helium, the byproduct because you can'tkeep adding fuel and not removing the by products.
We will be that poor once they figure it out and charge us an arm and a leg,till then they'll suck up our tax dollars and tell us all its for the betterment of Mankind or some shit...what a scam...
@@MegaBanne I was just reacting to your hilarious comment. Why are you bombarding me with a seemingly discriminating question? I clearly know nothing about it. I wasn't stating an objection; just merely reacting and therefore agreeing with you. Why are you opposing me? Can you please give me a thorough explanation for your behavior if you're really as educated as you think you are.
I'm really impressed to see these machines. They are fantastic! It's unbelievable that some people have created these extremely complex, precise and clean machines -- I'm speechless.
@@orionwill2564 The button to stop the reactor completely, it was built into russian RZ reactors I believe? It would stop the reactor and I'm pretty sure wouldn't let it reignite ever. it was flawed and was the thing that was blamed for chernobly well one of them anyway.
1. Nuclear Fusion - is combining atoms together to create vast amount of energy 2. Cold Fusion - is combining hydrogen with a metal to create energy 3. Nuclear Fission - is splitting atoms to create vast amounts of energy
@@madsnielsen5863 yeah but tecnicly you are still fusing atoms of with less protons to bigger ones its still Nuclear fusion but the term nuclear fisson and the term fusion are more commen, also i was quoting the titel so it int my fault
Fission isn't fusing atoms, its splitting them, its not the same, we actually have done fusion bombs before, like Tsar Bomba or Castle Bravo, but Fat Man and Little Boy were just fission
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As silly as this question is math can answer it for us. Well a lithium Ion AA battery stores about 11050 Joules according to www.allaboutbatteries.com/Energy-tables.html In the video the guy said they had 36 capacitor banks which they charge to 20 MJ. I'm not entirely sure if that is 20 MJ altogether or per bank. But the same calculation either way. 20 MJ total 20,000,000 Joules/11050 Joules/AA Battery = 1,810 AA batteries 1,810*36= 65,158 AA Batteries if it was 20 MJ per Capacitor... Of course those numbers are lower than what it would actually take because, well nothing is perfectly efficient.
@@glacialguy5889 well the most wrong it coud get was if someone made a laser and have it being it's power source, even then it wouldn't be that impressive
as of 3 days ago it is halfway done and everyone who has done the math on it is fairly confident that this thing will be the first plant that will not only break even but produce more energy than we put in i really cant fucking wait for 2025
"and everyone who has done the math on it is fairly confident that this thing will be the first plant that will not only break even but produce more energy than we put in i really cant fucking wait for 2025" You're talking about the Chinese, German and French reactors right? Not the ones in the video?
no, in case of an explosion, they would come and extinguish the fire initiated by the explosion (just like they'd come to a fire in a fossil fuel power plant initiated by an explosion)
Yes, if the reaction loses containment, you don't get a mushroom cloud, not even a thermal explosion. You just get a dissipation of heat, from the small focused intense spot of heat in the reactor, to the large expanse of air surrounding. The plasma just immediately descends into gas phase. It's not even radioactive. A failure at a fusion plant would be safe for the people living next door.
If only all the private companies worked together to research about this. That would be quicker and more efficient. Why add politicians to the mess? They always screw things up and these people don't need subsidies, since all subsidies do is stifle competition and innovation.
invsiblshowercurtain nice, someone else who finally realises this. Ever since I started working in a power plant I realised how the media extremely exaggerates the "pollution" almost to the point of simply lying / blissful ignorance
Haha yea it is, but that's not what's coming out of the cooling tower. And in the context of nuclear fission power plants, which often have cooling towers, water is not a combustion product.
Nice video. What I find fascinating is that all this complicated equipment is needed to create fusion on earth, yet a star is so simple, just a bunch of gas held together by its own gravity!
@@typingcat why the toxicity? He's saying he respects them for being able to do something of such importance that he himself could not do (in his eyes). It's called humility, you should try it sometime
Rikketik I have real high hopes for ITER. I've been watching its UA-cam channel for some time now. It's amazing. Just goes to show you what we can achieve when countries put their differences aside and come together. We could achieve anything.
If I had to put money on a private company making fusion break even first, then it would be Tokamak Energy. They are building a higher density version of ITER using new superconducting magnet materials which weren't available when the ITER design was finalised...
Wendelstein 7-X, the project in Germany, is on a good way. And a possibly winning design. It mastered the first 2 test phases. The 3rd has 100 million degrees Celsius as target. 2019 and 2020 are for upgrading. The 3rd phase will start 2021.
"Lol whats that thing in the sky? it gives power? Its too far tho lets make it here." - Abraham lincoln, Nuclear physicist to Mahatma Ghandi, circa 1985 during a game of civ
We are probably a good 100 years behind where we should be due to big oil fighting tooth and nail to suppress things that would make them obsolete that they can't monopolize. It's extremely frustrating and should be considered a crime against humanity.
Dude I hope you understand that "free energy" meant free as in no cost (to you)energy by using massive Tesla coils to electrify the air they would still need a way to generate the energy. "Free energy" in this videos case would be making energy for almost to no cost at all (hardly any fuel) whereas with telsa coils you would need a MASSIVE ammount of fuel. I'm just letting you know so you can better understand this world:)
Devin Belson Big companies like Oil won’t invest or change business to fusion until greater leaps are made. But once it’s shown that you can do it, they’ll all jump on it because they do want to make money
You're spot on. It is estimated 1.3 trillion barrels of oil remaining in Earth's proven reserves. Technically, more will be available after the proven reserves dry up, but won't be as economically profitable. If the average price per barrel is 55 dollars, that is well over 55 trillion dollars worth of crude oil to process, refine, and profit from. If anyone thinks these mega-corporations and a US geopolitical strategy are going to just leave 55 trillion dollars worth of anything in the ground they are sadly mistaken. Money is what makes this world turn, and money is what will likely make this world burn. For people think that we aren't "advanced" enough to convert to clean energy, they are also misinformed. Our energy grid could be highly efficient, and completely renewable in just a couple of decades. Economics is the only factor holding us back. Capitalism works by exploiting short-term gains and cumulative short term growth. Wealthy investors aren't going to throw their money at something that isn't going to return anything in 10-20 years, or even 5 years. Human lives don't last that long. Until clean energy becomes "cheap" enough for the wealthy elite to invest billions and recoup the investment for profit, we're stuck with burning fossil fuels. I am 30 years old, and I'm pretty confident the US won't be energy independent in my lifetime. The irony of all this is that instead of investing the hundreds of billions required for a clean energy grid overhaul, we gladly invest several hundreds of billions of dollars into a military to facilitate our geopolitical strategy every year to keep the engine of the status quo humming along. What a complete waste of money.
clvinning Another person sh*tting on our military because they don’t understand why we have one, and why we need such a large and powerful one. Read a history book and understand what our country has been through. It hasn’t always been like this. At the start of WWII we only had ~300,000 people in our military. Japan, Germany, Italy, All could have destroyed us. We were training our soldiers with wood boards as guns, trucks with the word “Tank” written on it. We didn’t have the money allocated to afford proper equipment. And after WWII we knew that what Alfred Mahan taught in his book was right, you cant be a powerful nation without a powerful Navy. The Japanese had almost beaten us because of this principle. We had fewer CV than them in the war and fewer warships in total. We don’t want to repeat that mistake. But now we have gone through the Cold War, we are the last superpower country. We have countries that we need to protect because of deals we have with them. And let me ask you, if we didn’t have the military presence/might that we do today, wouldn’t North Korea have bombed Japan and South Korea by now? I wouldn’t be surprised if other countries had pondered taking over another country, but chose not to do so because they knew that the US Military had a station there. “There’s some who have forgotten why we have a military. It’s not to promote war, but to be prepared for peace” ~ Ronald Reagan
Everyone does realise in the event of a Containment failure you know what catastrophic reaction will take place? It expands outwards cools rapidly and becomes gas It will bearly damage the containment itself you just lose the reaction and the plasma...
This is FUSion not FISsion, it burns itself out instead of a chain reaction. I think the biggest challenge is not melting the reactor when you are trying to sustain fusion at 150 million degrees.
how do they know its 50 years away? When they have a facillity here for fusion and still havnt achieved making it how do they know that its going to take 50 years? It might as well be next week or in 300 years... right?
Looking at the machinery involved in fusion research my mind is tied into a knot. The complexity is mind boggling. It's one of the scientific achievements i hope i'll live to see. It will change the fate of humanity.
So if this would make an energy source so powerful it can fuel the entire worlds needs, wouldn’t the first person who achieves it pretty much have a monopoly on the worlds energy?
Actually, fusion reactions can be rivalry achieve in existing reactors, the problem I’d the amount of energy input required for fusion to take place is higher than the output of energy.
Y'know, I always joked about making a star on earth when I was younger, and that it would be so unstable it would turn into a blackhole. Hope it goes better than my mind went.
I though matter-antimatter annihilation was the ultima energy source, being 100% efficient in transforming mass into energy and leaving no waste behind, all of the good stuff
actually black holes are the ultimate energy source, they are as efficient as antimatter but you dont neet rare antimatter you can just trow anything to the black hole and it transform it to energy
Yeah not mentioning ITER is just shoddy research. It has a good chance of being the first TOKAMAK (torus like magnet contained fusion, the best design) to break even and make energy. With that proof of concept it is only a question of building a bigger version of it. If all goes well we could have commercial fusion energy in 10 years.
I assume the failure to mention ITER is because ITER is still under construction, but it will be huge news when it does its first test. Now that would be the experience of a lifetime.
Jesse Guzman Even that isn't a good excuse considering the title of the video is called "the race". If something already built was capable then the race would be over.
I love these comments. We can easily have fusion reactors. The problem is that we want “cold fusion” reactors - which is attaining fusion at much lower temperatures. Honestly if we managed to create cold fusion and efficient super conductors we’d never run out of energy again
Their goal was to provide energy to the entire world for free. However, technology like this often ends being commercialized for the company to monopolize the energy industry.
The point of fusion is the possibility of a much lower price point and having abundand ressources which is not possible with current fossil fuels. You know what happened when computing power and storage went down in prices? It enabled entire new industries to rise on it. It´s the backbone of our current digital revolution. And now imagine what would happen if energy becomes abundand. It would also be a catalyst for entire new industries. So the first that achieve this holy grail of energy science should prepare themselfes for a new golden age.
Free energy will never be a thing We always find more stuff to do with more power ... Like, say USE GIANT LASERS TO PROPELL INTERSTELLAR SPACECRAFT OUT OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM Or manual reverse climate change by taking CO2 and water and converting it back into hydrocarbons Or making metallic hydrogen
@@mihailazar2487 Free energy isn't likely to ever be a thing true, but given enough time fusion could mean unlimited energy so what's the big deal if we find new bigger ways to use it. Ideally, fusion produces more energy than it took to create it, a lot more. Eventually once fusion is a viable thing, somebody will invent a system where a small fusion can generate the power needed to fuel a much larger reaction, rinse and repeat and we will get to the point that we produce more energy than we have a need for.
@@kylebeach6799 that's now how this works It's not a perpetual motion machine Fusion works like this In goes helium-3 or Deuterium ,etc, along with some electric energy to hear it up till it's plasma Then it fuses and out comes pure energy, and no matter (well almost, neutrons don't fuse fully, but that's beside the point) FUSION just turns mass into energy That's all it does You can't have a small reactor power a bigger one, that's pseudo-science bullshit on a number of levels
Can’t agree, they would rather invest in this because they know oil and coal will come to an end but they want to survive through an oil/coal crisis so that’s why they want to earn money of the new ways to get enerfy
Nice update! I worked at SNL Areas 4 & 5 Radiation Metrology Lab for 24 years before retirement 12 years ago. Always something neat and new going on in Area 4.
@@coolemur976 correct - same as using a pencil in space instead of spending millions to create an ink that would float... simple/common sense solutions maybe required in such high risk environments...
"We've had decade after decade of smaller companies trying to find a faster, cheaper way to fusion..." - well, I assume there is a mistake in this way of thinking: first you gotta find a way to make it actually work. Then you can worry about simplifying things...
Flumi but if we didn't we could just be taken over I mean look at North Korea there pretty much nothing against us but that's because we invest so much to our military and also other possible enemy's in the future
69memes and counting But what if US do not get involved in every activities around the Globe? Who created war? Instead of doing war, US should fund on NASA or other tech industries. There is a lot of things we can change but politicians are spending our money like it's nothing. We want to see new inventions not war.
Nuclear disaster explanation videos brought me here, and that one guy being all cavalier, “this is not a clean room, this is really how to make stuff happen” makes me very nervous
Iter - world’s first fusion reactor has started construction last month (place in France) and scheduled to be built within the next 10 years through the collaboration of 35 countries including all major world powers. Iter plasma produced is estimated to be 10 times hotter than the center of our sun. The future is now lads.
Have you ever heard about Wendelstein 7 X? It's the first full scale stellator and what's most important it's working with positive energy balance. Wendelstein can create and maintain plasma in the fusion state for 45 min! It's far more effective than all of tokamaks and other devices.
I was as surprised as you. There are a lot of videos lately that just get reuploaded. At first I thought I was experiencing some sort of wierd deja-vu, good to know I'm not crazy.
The Z machine, for example, charged up large capacitors and using electromagnetic wave "force" particles into a fusion reaction, in theory. My question is they made note of the electricity on the surface of the water finding ground; couldn't this just be the massive discharge from the capacitors rather then the "creation" of fusion? How are we as a viewer to know.
100 million for nuclear fusion
but 222 million for neymar
this world ... no words
yar a real shame. People are idiots
that is a funny one.
@@bys2 but what have you contributed for fission? If the others are idiots you must stand out.
12 billion for an aircraft carrier... no words
That's because there is 1 Billion earthlings glued to Tv watching that foo kick the ball around the dirt field.
"the power of the sun, on the palm of my hands"
-Dr.Octavius
One day somebody is gonna fall into that thing as it’s turned on and become a superhero...
And become megamind
yep... pretty much every single *guy with superpowers* debut scenario ever
Captain Vancouver
I can promise you he wont be having fun
A weak man will disintegrate.
A strong man will come out as Superman Prime.
This looks like something that could go wrong in june
Shut up, i hate prediction about 2020 haha
Bet
Hello from July, so far nothing happened, so far.
@@Edkahmed Could be 2021 June
It can't
why dont we just go to the sun during the night time when it is cool and take a piece off, that would be so much simpler.
Stoßtruppen Nice joke!
It's colder there in the winter time.
This makes me smile 😃!!!
Stoßtruppen You probably lost a piece out there.. Sun is 24hours hot. Unless you are a flat earther hehe
There is no night when your by the sun its always produces light.
When I was 13, fusion was "30 years away". I'm 53 now, and fusion is "30 years away".
oh, I see. You must be a time traveler.
We all are.
Yup, We are bound to be.
Sorry for you. This time it's real for us.
It's because scientists back then had no big computing power to their hands. They just did the math's and assumed that the reactor can be build a lot smaller than today's scientists know. Big computer simulations wich are available today make the assumptions alot more reliable. Sorry for bad english.
It’s all fun and games till someone tears a hole in spacetime.
Fusion with such a small ammount of particles can do nothing. Just 8 Light minutes from you is one big reactor which is billions times heavier than Earth. Guess what. Spacetime is perfectly fine.
@@SupereKrakersik it was a joke...
Sir I believe you ment to deposit that joke at the large hydron collider. That's the (left turn) at Albuquerque. 😉
@Smarticus I know that. My comment was reffering to "tearing" spacetime not bending.
I’d be more worried about CERN doing that...
Humans : Builds a new star.
Sun: Am I a joke to you?
Humans: Yes. Compared to fusion you're solar energy doesn't do shit for powering our appliances
They are not "making a new star" they are recreating the energy released by fusion in stars. Very different.
wow! that so very different!! just like the other day, I took off my shoes and then someone told me I was bare feet... well, I had sox on!!very different.
@@joseph-mariopelerin7028 hehehe....
these jokes are so lameeeeee
i came to the comment section to hear the experts opinion on nuclear energy
Llort boberson same, i was expecting an expert comment from you bot
Kappa
An experts opinion on what exactly?
Llort boberson - I know all about nuclear fusion and I'll answer pretty much every mystery in this universe. But first of all, let me finish my beer....
ThermArt lmao
Should definitely have taken 30 seconds to explain to the masses why fusion is different from fission; most people still don't get that it's non-toxic/basically god level energy creation
TheDuTangClan well see to explane this proces the reaction is very 1/2 of secondtn of atoms to primary fusions of plasma the first of the process for autonomous square of the fusion must be multiplied and duplicated for 12 of yours for your own. It is only for this proceses for this into making lamnent horizontally.
you can read that in wikipedia
Fission is slitting of attoms right?
It's not nontoxic. If you observed fusion reactions of significant density without shielding you would still die from acute radiation exposure. The radiation fusion produces and more importantly the products do not have as high of a tendency to activate other materials or hang around. That's what makes it less risky
I would say that toxic is not the right term since fusion implicates different types of radiation (which is obviously bad for you)
An on-running joke is that fusion is always 30 years away😂
Shit man I'm not smart enough to get that. Why is 30 years significantl? Genuinely asking
@@MrSITCHris not much of a joke, just that fusion was 30 years away 50 years ago... and may still be 30 years away in another 50 years from now.
People are more advanced in technology but more stupid in the same degree the progress... progresses.
😂
Yep I remember hearing that in science classes in the late 1960s.
Goku and Vegeta were able to do it with a flick of an earring and a dance
Well ain't that a bitch
Endofthebeginning 😂
How hard can it be just put 2 hydrogen atoms in a hydraulic press
capturing and storing the energy
They obviously don't realize that they have to resemble the same environment that atoms are surrounded by in space
Nearly impossible
Ever heard of electrical force?
I don’t think it’s that easy m8te
150 million degrees Celsius?
Did I hear that right?
150 to 300M... Yes.
That why only magnetic field can contain that plasma...
That's actually pretty cool compared to temperatures that can be reached.
Hose2wAcKiEr confinement can be achieved via a high potential trap. Take a look at IEC reactors.
@Hose2wAcKiEr I keep wondering how do they plan to extract the helium, the byproduct because you can'tkeep adding fuel and not removing the by products.
That's 10x hotter than the core of the sun!
what do you mean you don't have your own star? are you THAT poor?
There are so many stars out there... Plenty enough for everybody.
Comp Fox there’s only like 6 stars and Mars isn’t even very strong
We will be that poor once they figure it out and charge us an arm and a leg,till then they'll suck up our tax dollars and tell us all its for the betterment of Mankind or some shit...what a scam...
i mean technically america landet the sun on japan twice already
@@GodOfChaos_HeXa that's fission, not fusion
Thirty, or forty years away? I can remember them saying this in a 1950's popular mechanic article...….
Means never
Fusion is always 30 years away!
It’s called job security 🤫
The amount of nuclear experts in the comments, damn.
Soon we will have fusion power!! :D!!
@@MegaBanne 😂
Lester Nash
We shall see who has the last laugh. How much do you know about alternative fusion methods?
@@MegaBanne I was just reacting to your hilarious comment. Why are you bombarding me with a seemingly discriminating question? I clearly know nothing about it. I wasn't stating an objection; just merely reacting and therefore agreeing with you.
Why are you opposing me? Can you please give me a thorough explanation for your behavior if you're really as educated as you think you are.
Found the issue. I was supposed to reply to the other guy's comment. Not yours. My apologies.
I'm really impressed to see these machines. They are fantastic! It's unbelievable that some people have created these extremely complex, precise and clean machines -- I'm speechless.
Bad, bad humans!!!
Dont try burn planet!!! Star is fire gas-sfear in space!!!
Bad, bad humans do it far away from solar sistem!!!
When they build this reactor I hope it has a AZ-5 button 💥
Yes
Didn’t save Chernobyl
What is AZ-5 button?
@@orionwill2564 The button to stop the reactor completely, it was built into russian RZ reactors I believe? It would stop the reactor and I'm pretty sure wouldn't let it reignite ever. it was flawed and was the thing that was blamed for chernobly well one of them anyway.
@@tek6610 rbmk reactors
The video impressed me but the comments changed my life.
1. Nuclear Fusion - is combining atoms together to create vast amount of energy
2. Cold Fusion - is combining hydrogen with a metal to create energy
3. Nuclear Fission - is splitting atoms to create vast amounts of energy
Now where in conservation of energy fits?
@@chaoticlife311 what is the question here ?
This technology is so revolutionary it looks like maschines out of a sci-fi movie
The enterprise engine room for the reboot star trek was filmed in a fusion test lab if I remember correctly
Avengers 2 used the Livermore fusion lab
All experimentation can be considered science fiction, until proven a scientific fact.
Clarke's third law - "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
thank you for saving me the search.
It’s already been done- it’s just a matter of efficiency
I worked on the one in Livermore....I did the drywall. None of this scientist stuff.
Did you skim it as well or just the boarding old bean?
That's genuinely funny
I delivered Jimmy John's sandwiches once. I'm part of the technology 😎
The true hero
@@matrich1983 I would have skimmed it. I think he is a *drywall installer.*
located at Albuquerque, New Mexico...
nah.. they're just cooking meth
got that Blue Fusion! tight tight !!! bring me more of that !
Dig Bick lmfao
I knew something is on when this one scientist said they make a lot of smoke at the very beginning of the video
nah, I say a resonance cascade more likely
And the whole state is irradiated.
*DIY make a homemade star*
PexiGaming You're joking about this in 2018 but I bet it will be a thing in 50-60 years from now 😂😂
With these 3 easy steps!
PexiGaming then mine cryptocurrencies!
"Nuclear Fusion Energy: The Race to Create a Star on Earth"
you know that America has landet the sun on japan twice already
Thats Nuclear Fission, not Fusion 😂
@@madsnielsen5863 yeah but tecnicly you are still fusing atoms of with less protons to bigger ones its still Nuclear fusion but the term nuclear fisson and the term fusion are more commen, also i was quoting the titel so it int my fault
Fission isn't fusing atoms, its splitting them, its not the same, we actually have done fusion bombs before, like Tsar Bomba or Castle Bravo, but Fat Man and Little Boy were just fission
@@GodOfChaos_HeXa fission is splitting (usually uranium) radioactive atom not fusing them.
Creates star:
Star: welp guess its time for a blackhole
a normal everyday Spider our sun will become a blackhole one day btw
@a normal everyday Spider is a black dwarf just a blob of neutrons?
@a normal everyday Spider I guess when stars die out they are just fuel for black holes and hawking radiation
a normal everyday Spider YEEESSS I LOVE KUGERSTAT IN A NUTSHELL
@a normal everyday Spider We took a picture now, the theory was right.
How many double AA batteries do you need to turn this on ?
oz * "double AA" would mean "AAAA" :)) so the it would be "double AAAA"? :D
Mike Turk "double AAAA" would mean "AAAAAAAA" :)) so the would be "double AAAAAAAA"? :D
dayum_itzhim 🤣
oz * Double, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (1 hundred billion billion billion A's later) battery would be needed to produce a plasma which lasts 0.1 nano seconds (0.1x10^-9s) or .00000000001s)
As silly as this question is math can answer it for us.
Well a lithium Ion AA battery stores about 11050 Joules according to www.allaboutbatteries.com/Energy-tables.html
In the video the guy said they had 36 capacitor banks which they charge to 20 MJ. I'm not entirely sure if that is 20 MJ altogether or per bank. But the same calculation either way.
20 MJ total
20,000,000 Joules/11050 Joules/AA Battery = 1,810 AA batteries
1,810*36= 65,158 AA Batteries if it was 20 MJ per Capacitor...
Of course those numbers are lower than what it would actually take because, well nothing is perfectly efficient.
Video is so informative
But comments here are Legendary 😂
No they're godly
Aiden Monk there Killin me😂
"We were so obsessed if we could.. we never stopped to think if we should".
-Jeff Guy from Jurassic Park.
well yes, we should, since it's the most efficient and at the same time relatively clean energy source. Reviving dinosaurs is no such thing.
Yeah in this case it’s pretty obvious that we should
Literally infinite clean energy at the hearts of stars, with no threat to human life. At our fingertips. What could possibly go wrong?
@@glacialguy5889 The Universe, "Standby"
@@glacialguy5889 well the most wrong it coud get was if someone made a laser and have it being it's power source, even then it wouldn't be that impressive
4:40 is one of the most beautiful things I´ve ever seen
Your wife must be fugly
Just take a jar of Hydrogen and squish em together lmao
r/whoosh
What
what's ironic is that this is what they are trying to do lol
Varun Divi You have as much reliability as Utsuho.
It's not that simple
I was surprised not to see the ITER project mentioned or showed.
this is about laser fusion
ITER and it's Tokamak are next level shit.
as of 3 days ago it is halfway done
and everyone who has done the math on it is fairly confident that this thing will be the first plant that will not only break even but produce more energy than we put in i really cant fucking wait for 2025
America... Do you understand? Fusion is way better than fission...
"and everyone who has done the math on it is fairly confident that this thing will be the first plant that will not only break even but produce more energy than we put in i really cant fucking wait for 2025"
You're talking about the Chinese, German and French reactors right? Not the ones in the video?
“Fire department came”
Hahahahquaquaquaquaqua, what are they gonna do? Extinguish a nuclear explosion?
Fission and fusion are different, so no
no, in case of an explosion, they would come and extinguish the fire initiated by the explosion (just like they'd come to a fire in a fossil fuel power plant initiated by an explosion)
People above me are boomers ^^^
Nuclear reactors don’t explode, your delusional go to the infirmary
Boron and sand maybe... That's what they did in Chernobyl
“The race to create a star on earth”
That doesn’t seem like to good of an idea
I mean yeah, it's definitely dangerous but it'd be a good source of energy
Why not?
@@somniato7759 fusion is not dangerous, it can’t explode like fission reactors (the ones we use today) do
Yes, if the reaction loses containment, you don't get a mushroom cloud, not even a thermal explosion. You just get a dissipation of heat, from the small focused intense spot of heat in the reactor, to the large expanse of air surrounding. The plasma just immediately descends into gas phase. It's not even radioactive. A failure at a fusion plant would be safe for the people living next door.
Call it military energy and the government will put money through it
If only all the private companies worked together with the government to research about this. That would be a quicker and more efficient.
If only all the private companies worked together to research about this. That would be quicker and more efficient. Why add politicians to the mess? They always screw things up and these people don't need subsidies, since all subsidies do is stifle competition and innovation.
@@Alan-pi1vn false
You’re assuming it’s possible at all
how can it possibly be more efficient if "the government" gets involved?
They’re forgetting a small ingredient in the pie. Nitrogen. It’s really simple they just fucking overthink it.
2:04 stop showing water vapor from cooling towers and acting like it is some type of combustion product
invsiblshowercurtain nice, someone else who finally realises this. Ever since I started working in a power plant I realised how the media extremely exaggerates the "pollution" almost to the point of simply lying / blissful ignorance
Water vapour is also a greenhouse gas.
Haha yea it is, but that's not what's coming out of the cooling tower. And in the context of nuclear fission power plants, which often have cooling towers, water is not a combustion product.
invsiblshowercurtain go breath that shit in then. You also think its cool to smoke cigarettes still?
Slayvid G what makes you think we (including you) arent doing that already?
Nice video. What I find fascinating is that all this complicated equipment is needed to create fusion on earth, yet a star is so simple, just a bunch of gas held together by its own gravity!
When this is developed we can use this to power starships and advance in space travel.
It would also mean the end of all human conflict.
@@andersdahl2755 Conflict is in human nature. No matter what, humans will always find a reason to fight.
@@arturmalas Your comment makes me want to vomit because of how true it is. But, hopefully, we can change our nature.
@@andersdahl2755 Nah, some motherfucker will always disturb the peace.
@@andersdahl2755 Äğrwqr6
I always hated physics in school.
Respect to people like them.
That's why they are prominent scientists, and you're some random, obscure, UA-cam-commenting guy.
@@typingcat why the toxicity? He's saying he respects them for being able to do something of such importance that he himself could not do (in his eyes).
It's called humility, you should try it sometime
Jeong-hun Sin shut ur mouth ling ling sin, learn respect or the world is gonna learn it to you in the hard way.
@@typingcat and you liked your own comment
Into the flux capacitor where it generates 1.21 gigawatts!!! Great Scott !!!
This is the mindset human was meant to have and what initially brought us here! Thank you guys so much!
But can you explain to me how rbmk reactor exploded?
... it can't.
@@Akeldama9 But... it did
The answer is .....'Lies'
Get this man to the infirmary
You are delusional
I'm pretty sure this is how Half Life 2 starts...
half-life 1 actually...
Half life 5483
@The Eubtube we dont know what dark energy is other than that we cant observe it and it creates anti gravity fields.
As "The Eubtube" already said. Half Life 2 ends with a dark energy reactor.
you guys can't be that thick, it was a nerd joke, and an amusing one at that
Aw, was hoping to see some footage from ITER or Wendelstein. All attention for fusion is good though!
Rikketik I have real high hopes for ITER. I've been watching its UA-cam channel for some time now. It's amazing. Just goes to show you what we can achieve when countries put their differences aside and come together. We could achieve anything.
If I had to put money on a private company making fusion break even first, then it would be Tokamak Energy. They are building a higher density version of ITER using new superconducting magnet materials which weren't available when the ITER design was finalised...
Tim Small Interesting, working at a small scale must make the building a lot faster indeed.
I will come back and like this comment 50 years from now
Rikketik I live in manosque, my dad is an engineer there :)
Wendelstein 7-X, the project in Germany, is on a good way. And a possibly winning design.
It mastered the first 2 test phases. The 3rd has 100 million degrees Celsius as target.
2019 and 2020 are for upgrading. The 3rd phase will start 2021.
"Lol whats that thing in the sky?
it gives power?
Its too far tho
lets make it here."
- Abraham lincoln, Nuclear physicist to Mahatma Ghandi, circa 1985 during a game of civ
We are probably a good 100 years behind where we should be due to big oil fighting tooth and nail to suppress things that would make them obsolete that they can't monopolize. It's extremely frustrating and should be considered a crime against humanity.
Dude I hope you understand that "free energy" meant free as in no cost (to you)energy by using massive Tesla coils to electrify the air they would still need a way to generate the energy. "Free energy" in this videos case would be making energy for almost to no cost at all (hardly any fuel) whereas with telsa coils you would need a MASSIVE ammount of fuel. I'm just letting you know so you can better understand this world:)
Completely agree
Devin Belson Big companies like Oil won’t invest or change business to fusion until greater leaps are made. But once it’s shown that you can do it, they’ll all jump on it because they do want to make money
You're spot on. It is estimated 1.3 trillion barrels of oil remaining in Earth's proven reserves. Technically, more will be available after the proven reserves dry up, but won't be as economically profitable. If the average price per barrel is 55 dollars, that is well over 55 trillion dollars worth of crude oil to process, refine, and profit from. If anyone thinks these mega-corporations and a US geopolitical strategy are going to just leave 55 trillion dollars worth of anything in the ground they are sadly mistaken. Money is what makes this world turn, and money is what will likely make this world burn. For people think that we aren't "advanced" enough to convert to clean energy, they are also misinformed. Our energy grid could be highly efficient, and completely renewable in just a couple of decades. Economics is the only factor holding us back. Capitalism works by exploiting short-term gains and cumulative short term growth. Wealthy investors aren't going to throw their money at something that isn't going to return anything in 10-20 years, or even 5 years. Human lives don't last that long. Until clean energy becomes "cheap" enough for the wealthy elite to invest billions and recoup the investment for profit, we're stuck with burning fossil fuels. I am 30 years old, and I'm pretty confident the US won't be energy independent in my lifetime. The irony of all this is that instead of investing the hundreds of billions required for a clean energy grid overhaul, we gladly invest several hundreds of billions of dollars into a military to facilitate our geopolitical strategy every year to keep the engine of the status quo humming along. What a complete waste of money.
clvinning Another person sh*tting on our military because they don’t understand why we have one, and why we need such a large and powerful one. Read a history book and understand what our country has been through. It hasn’t always been like this. At the start of WWII we only had ~300,000 people in our military. Japan, Germany, Italy, All could have destroyed us. We were training our soldiers with wood boards as guns, trucks with the word “Tank” written on it. We didn’t have the money allocated to afford proper equipment. And after WWII we knew that what Alfred Mahan taught in his book was right, you cant be a powerful nation without a powerful Navy. The Japanese had almost beaten us because of this principle. We had fewer CV than them in the war and fewer warships in total. We don’t want to repeat that mistake. But now we have gone through the Cold War, we are the last superpower country. We have countries that we need to protect because of deals we have with them. And let me ask you, if we didn’t have the military presence/might that we do today, wouldn’t North Korea have bombed Japan and South Korea by now? I wouldn’t be surprised if other countries had pondered taking over another country, but chose not to do so because they knew that the US Military had a station there.
“There’s some who have forgotten why we have a military. It’s not to promote war, but to be prepared for peace” ~ Ronald Reagan
Everyone does realise in the event of a Containment failure you know what catastrophic reaction will take place?
It expands outwards cools rapidly and becomes gas It will bearly damage the containment itself you just lose the reaction and the plasma...
Nice one
Cyrolocker 1 and all the scientists will be like "oh...ok"
The damage would be confined to the plant and there would be no radioactive cloud as happened with Chernobyl.
This is FUSion not FISsion, it burns itself out instead of a chain reaction. I think the biggest challenge is not melting the reactor when you are trying to sustain fusion at 150 million degrees.
What's getting me is why can't they or don't they use that 150miilion degrees for making energy via steam turbine?
"The power of the Sun in the palm of my hand"
Alraidy watched, watching again.
Still a good idea to pursue fusion.
We are beyond the point of no return now.
Id like to see this irl.
Fusion is always just 50 years away.
same with medicine for aging
how do they know its 50 years away? When they have a facillity here for fusion and still havnt achieved making it how do they know that its going to take 50 years? It might as well be next week or in 300 years... right?
Planci Acanthaster actually probably only 12 years away depends on the estimates from differing people
Planci Acanthaster Someone told me it was 8 and a half minutes away, plus the distance from the sun’s atmosphere to the sun’s core!
@@2KOOLURATOOLGaming 8.5 minutes in light speed
Looking for the 13 year old in the comment section that has already built this in his garage
Akshay Aradhya here but am 16
@@FirstLast-kv1iq what really??!
First Last I want to know more about your fusion engine
Yeah 13 yr old kids wouldn’t even be here rn, they’re all playing fortnite
I’m not Dumb 14 here and agreed.
First they need to build their own nuclear power plant to supply the energy for this Fusion project
Martin what
I agree
This kind a fusion dont work in logic
2:47 is my fave especially with the head nod 😂
Looking at the machinery involved in fusion research my mind is tied into a knot. The complexity is mind boggling.
It's one of the scientific achievements i hope i'll live to see. It will change the fate of humanity.
So if this would make an energy source so powerful it can fuel the entire worlds needs, wouldn’t the first person who achieves it pretty much have a monopoly on the worlds energy?
No bc other sources will still exist and someone else will work it out eventually
Actually, fusion reactions can be rivalry achieve in existing reactors, the problem I’d the amount of energy input required for fusion to take place is higher than the output of energy.
What if the reactor just flies out from the condensed helium lol
The Mad Commenter 😂🤣🤣 most of the ppl in the comments are annoying me but that was gold!!
But can it run Crysis 3?
It will be able to power a computer that will run Crysis 7.
It will be enough to be able to create crysis here on Earth.
there will be no more crysis in electricity xD
Richard Vanwinkle Sorry man, can only do lowest settings at 24 fps average.
Boombus Poombus I just put the same comment then realized I was beat to it.
Ohh gr8 I see many scientists in the comment section
HEYY!!!! But I have the solution.
"Scientists" wearing tinfoil hats.
Y'know, I always joked about making a star on earth when I was younger, and that it would be so unstable it would turn into a blackhole. Hope it goes better than my mind went.
What has this to do with black holes?
When stars collapse they turn into black holes
Do you want a Doctor Octavius, because that's how you get a Doctor Octavius?
I though matter-antimatter annihilation was the ultima energy source, being 100% efficient in transforming mass into energy and leaving no waste behind, all of the good stuff
Planck energy is the ultimate energy source.
you have to transform energy into antimatter, there no gains, antimatter is only good as a energy storage
actually black holes are the ultimate energy source, they are as efficient as antimatter but you dont neet rare antimatter you can just trow anything to the black hole and it transform it to energy
@@diablo.the.cheater I like it we should just create a black hole in the middle of New York
No mention of ITER
4:30 "There's only one Z machine in the world everything else is pretty small compared to Z". That's a joke when you know the specs of ITER ! :D
Yeah not mentioning ITER is just shoddy research. It has a good chance of being the first TOKAMAK (torus like magnet contained fusion, the best design) to break even and make energy. With that proof of concept it is only a question of building a bigger version of it. If all goes well we could have commercial fusion energy in 10 years.
I assume the failure to mention ITER is because ITER is still under construction, but it will be huge news when it does its first test. Now that would be the experience of a lifetime.
Or NIF at llnl which is sandias sister lab
Jesse Guzman Even that isn't a good excuse considering the title of the video is called "the race". If something already built was capable then the race would be over.
I love these comments. We can easily have fusion reactors. The problem is that we want “cold fusion” reactors - which is attaining fusion at much lower temperatures.
Honestly if we managed to create cold fusion and efficient super conductors we’d never run out of energy again
Cold fusion is a load of garbage.
We can actually not easily have hot fusion reactors. The problem is that the plasma can not be contained stably long enough.
particle beam fusion accelerator.
"niiice" :)
great video btw, thanks for showing
Their goal was to provide energy to the entire world for free. However, technology like this often ends being commercialized for the company to monopolize the energy industry.
The point of fusion is the possibility of a much lower price point and having abundand ressources which is not possible with current fossil fuels.
You know what happened when computing power and storage went down in prices? It enabled entire new industries to rise on it. It´s the backbone of our
current digital revolution. And now imagine what would happen if energy becomes abundand. It would also be a catalyst for entire new industries.
So the first that achieve this holy grail of energy science should prepare themselfes for a new golden age.
Free energy will never be a thing
We always find more stuff to do with more power ... Like, say USE GIANT LASERS TO PROPELL INTERSTELLAR SPACECRAFT OUT OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
Or manual reverse climate change by taking CO2 and water and converting it back into hydrocarbons
Or making metallic hydrogen
@@mihailazar2487 Free energy isn't likely to ever be a thing true, but given enough time fusion could mean unlimited energy so what's the big deal if we find new bigger ways to use it. Ideally, fusion produces more energy than it took to create it, a lot more. Eventually once fusion is a viable thing, somebody will invent a system where a small fusion can generate the power needed to fuel a much larger reaction, rinse and repeat and we will get to the point that we produce more energy than we have a need for.
@@kylebeach6799 that's now how this works
It's not a perpetual motion machine
Fusion works like this
In goes helium-3 or Deuterium ,etc, along with some electric energy to hear it up till it's plasma
Then it fuses and out comes pure energy, and no matter (well almost, neutrons don't fuse fully, but that's beside the point)
FUSION just turns mass into energy
That's all it does
You can't have a small reactor power a bigger one, that's pseudo-science bullshit on a number of levels
Naw there are many private companies doing their own shit, like space x and eBays space company.
Big oil,coal, ETC. Industries will just try to destroy this or slow it down the best they can.
vw gti 2.0t lover don't forget about big idiots.
Adam Kendall lol. I hear that.
No one cant stop progress, big changes happened which destroyed business and jobs. It happened before it is going to happen again
Can’t agree, they would rather invest in this because they know oil and coal will come to an end but they want to survive through an oil/coal crisis so that’s why they want to earn money of the new ways to get enerfy
Tzaimun yeah I can see that. So they won't be faded out.
Nice update! I worked at SNL Areas 4 & 5 Radiation Metrology Lab for 24 years before retirement 12 years ago. Always something neat and new going on in Area 4.
Why not just use polymerization on the two hydrogen atoms?
Edit: Its a Yu-Gi-Oh reference for people who don't know.
Yay, you've just made molecular hydrogen.
polymer of hydrogen... sounds oxymoronish...
1:04 "No Smoking, but it's OK to try to recreate the Sun if you want."
Because the worse that will happen it dissapates and we lose all the materials so we have to restart the fusion..
7:40
*Climbs the ladder to start the reactor in hl1*
A resonance cascade is highly unlikely
So what ? Ladder is easy to make and no time wasted for making more complex solution.
@@coolemur976 correct - same as using a pencil in space instead of spending millions to create an ink that would float... simple/common sense solutions maybe required in such high risk environments...
Sim city 3000 promised me fusion power and I want it now!
Fusion is always 30 years away because each time we actually get it right it rips the space time continuum in two causing a “Groundhog Day” lol
Kylie 152 looks like someone’s been watching too much family guy
HYPAGAMING 101 omg I haven’t seen family guy in such a long time! I kinda forgot about it :( thanks for reminding me I’m going to go watch it haha 😂
0:34 HALF-LIFE 1 INTRO SCENE / ANYONE ??
This hole place screams half life
YES! All I can think about are "Unforeseen Consequences " lol
lol
All of these facilities remind me of the Lambda Core
they were working on teleportation technology in HL not energy.
stranger things theme song got me to watch all of it lol
Pearl read this as it started to play +1
lol it's called a synth
That sounds nothing like the Stranger Things theme...
Thought it was vsauce for a moment
Haha ya
"We've had decade after decade of smaller companies trying to find a faster, cheaper way to fusion..." - well, I assume there is a mistake in this way of thinking: first you gotta find a way to make it actually work. Then you can worry about simplifying things...
The particle accelerator.. This is how Flash and all those META's came along...
We could invest in our future.... naaa let’s spend 700 billion on military!
Flumi nobody cares
Flumi well save the 700 and change. You just make sure you stop N.Korea when lil rocket-man finnaly loses his shit, deal?
Tan Tan he's saying that $700B is too much for military infrastructure. We should still invest in the military but not to that amount.
Flumi but if we didn't we could just be taken over I mean look at North Korea there pretty much nothing against us but that's because we invest so much to our military and also other possible enemy's in the future
69memes and counting But what if US do not get involved in every activities around the Globe? Who created war? Instead of doing war, US should fund on NASA or other tech industries. There is a lot of things we can change but politicians are spending our money like it's nothing. We want to see new inventions not war.
Just ask Tony Stark, he’ll help you he figured it out in his basement!
yaa give me and endless supply of helium 3 and I can make fusion all day long in a easily MFG fuser ..
WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS
In a cave
@@doodskie999 while hostage to a terrorist group in the middle east
id rather ask ur momma and she can "help me " in the basement!
eventually this process will fit in my phone and run my car.
Eventually we wont even have phones to power we would have floating holograms
Yup
The world wont last that long
Nah, we'd be interlinked within cells interlinked with one stem...
Eventually yeah, we might have smart glasses or implants where we can see Augmented Reality and just do everything with just a flick of a finger
Nuclear disaster explanation videos brought me here, and that one guy being all cavalier, “this is not a clean room, this is really how to make stuff happen” makes me very nervous
Dr. Octopus learned this was a bad plan and gave his life to drown his creation. You guys are mad men!!
Uncanny Owlbear 😂
You're a madman if you think a comic book has dominion over reality.
@@edwardwu7730 It is a joke friendo
@@edwardwu7730 I thought comics were based on historical events?
It looks so beautiful
When I first saw the thumbnail, I was so confused, I thought it was ships in water, then I thought it was a stadium lmao
Iter - world’s first fusion reactor has started construction last month (place in France) and scheduled to be built within the next 10 years through the collaboration of 35 countries including all major world powers. Iter plasma produced is estimated to be 10 times hotter than the center of our sun. The future is now lads.
Have you ever heard about Wendelstein 7 X? It's the first full scale stellator and what's most important it's working with positive energy balance. Wendelstein can create and maintain plasma in the fusion state for 45 min! It's far more effective than all of tokamaks and other devices.
let's not create a star on Earth. haven't these dudes ever seen Spider-Man 2?
Study more....
Not from videos
Trust me, there is no possible way for a runaway.
Alexander Liang the internet is the best way to learn.
Doctor Octavius didn't surround the star with a big magnet now did he?
Someone call MacGyver
He can make it work with a flashlight,kitchen magnet,and a stick of chewing gum🤣
I drive a Ford Fusion. And so naturally yes it gets a lot of attention;)
At least in SimCity, fusion is already a reality
is this some weird way to trick the youtube algorithm or what? every new video here has been removed and replaced
I was as surprised as you. There are a lot of videos lately that just get reuploaded. At first I thought I was experiencing some sort of wierd deja-vu, good to know I'm not crazy.
bots on the loose
it cut me off halfway thru watching it
I think they do that if they don't get enough views, because UA-cam isn't notifying / recommending the video
I believe it might be part of a rampant demonetization issue. it's easier just to delete and reupload than it is to fight it at this point.
Very happy to note great efforts from scientists and everyone who support them.
Creating a star on earth will be a great accomplishment
The Z machine, for example, charged up large capacitors and using electromagnetic wave "force" particles into a fusion reaction, in theory. My question is they made note of the electricity on the surface of the water finding ground; couldn't this just be the massive discharge from the capacitors rather then the "creation" of fusion? How are we as a viewer to know.
Ohtaren you
I don’t always rely on fusion for my electricity, but when I do it’s always dark.
....lighten up....use some clear matter instead...lol ( it's what I call dark matter since you can see thru it )
thats pretty cool fusion power seems like a very interesting field to study
Ok, I couldn't start my own adventure series so far and I am getting strong impulses to jump into this machine