Nuclear Fusion Deep Dive (ft. Avalanche Energy)
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Hope you enjoy this look inside a nuclear fusion startup!
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Amazing job, John! Fusion would be the most important breakthrough in our lifetime...
Fusions companies shitting on other fusion companies when nobody has anything near a working product is laughable
Dude i want you to know i appreciate the difference in content. Like its all extremely interesting and well done. I have so much information in my mind about nuclear and rockstar games!
gonna build one of these in my backyard
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hell yeah
hey buddy where you located? this is NOT FBI agent John Spoonamore
let me be your first employee
No sir Blue Orgin hasn't accomplush anything meaningful yet.
Exactly my thoughts. Fun for a rich person to go to "space" for a few min. Honestly it's not even space but an arbitrary line drawn. Looks fun, but that's about it. You absolutely cannot put SpaceX and Blue Origin in the same group. SpaceX is phenomenal, Blue Origin is a pretty cool party trick...
@@justlisten82 I agree, as of today BO is still a rich man´s party trick
Okay, so the voiceover is talking about the Space Shuttle, but the first clip that's shown is of one of the Saturn rockets from the Apollo program.
Good catch
I really appreciate your narrative style with the mix of the background sound/music. It really builds an interesting atmosphere which draws the attention of the listener/watcher. The content itself is also so interesting, thank you for such high quality content! Learning something new again today!
A more grounded engineering explanation as to why this prolly won’t work:
ua-cam.com/video/JurplDfPi3U/v-deo.htmlsi=9QC9gEfCZ5vDv4zR
Essentially (assuming their confinement approach works):
1) They don’t address the tritium breeding problem (how to make your fuel)
2) Most of the fast fusion neutrons can will pass thru 6 inches of heat exchanger, so most of your energy will be lost + you’ll make everything around the device radioactive … (this is why most fusion experiments only run for short burst or/and have extremely thick and bulky shielding)
3) The engineering gain needs to more than 1, which prolly requires a scientific gain of more than 20 (so you need confinement better than anything ever
A super ambitious project, unlikely of success, but maybe they will learn something they can pivot into another startup.
@@kjmorley tht's the point
Dude the quote: "One team is paving the way while the other is speeding along in the car" really strikes me. That right there is the startup mindset and the one which will put america in the top of the game once again.
Why am I watching a floating head preaching the fusion fantasy to potential sucker investors? I've no idea.
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Shoutout from South Africa
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@@LungeloShandu fede😂 lets build gents
Yeah sure, some small startup is going to conquer nuclear fusion. It'll definitely be them. They'll have commercial fusion in ten years!*
*For the zoomers and gen alpha in the audience, this is a commonly told joke because nuclear fusion has been only ten years away, since before I was born.
This sounds like B.S. Another Theranos.
Very motivational words, very optimistic need more politician like you man, fuck the science guys
Yeah, they did not get into the physics much.
Until the Chinese steal the idea and mass produce it🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Everytime John's new video appears on my feed. I would shout and click into and watch it. 🎉 freakin excited for your videos, John.
Shoutout from Malaysia!
Me,a humanities student, listening to things I doubt I'll ever understand
Love that fantasy videos. Let us know when they build sth that works.
"SpaceX has been able to send more than 10 times more rockets to orbit in the last 20 years" - I'm afraid that's incorrect, it's actually ∞ times more orbital rockets, since Blue Origin has launched 0 orbital rockets, with the caveat that they made the main engines for ULA's inaugural test flight of the Vulcan rocket.
How come it is not classified for military use if it has a real potential to be implemented?
10 times more rockets… than Blue Origin?
To orbit?
It’s 300% more if the number for Blue Origin gets to 1…
they are going for the military's budget for shore
What a beach...
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8:10 I would be very skeptical of this device given there's a UA-cam video explaining this project mentioned at the timestamp is impossible to achieve. Also if you could iterate that quickly, it shouldn't take too long to figure out it net positive energy production should be possible in 5-ish years I would think. Once you have a lot of the components built, with a few tests involving the real data, either the goal will be close to feasible or not. I just hope regardless of what happens some of the findings will be shared with the scientific community.
ua-cam.com/video/3vUPhsFoniw/v-deo.html
That Marty McFly sign made me laugh.
Appreciate the storytelling elements, but after the video it's not clear for me how this approach is better than other ones...and want the timeline would be...
Perfect! They found an answer, unlimited power to feed military plans, that’s what United States need!
Hmm, so something like a ‘Mr. Fusion’ that fits in a car might actually be possible!
That plush leather chair in a warehouse tho!
John coogan you don't disappoint waited for this master piece ❤
I don't believe a second they will succeed but that still cool that they are trying
Always interesting and insightful content, John. Keep it up!
big oil and big electric will suppress it 😀
So it is a Naquadah generator IRL
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What is the cost and how abundant is the deterium tritium fuel?
An energy company called avalanche... hold on
I'd be more confident they'll get this working if their tech was the equivalent of hydro power, but for avalanche prone areas and relied on snow falling on their generator.
A good analogy for fusion though.
Like the people fighting the real energy company, Shinra
so basically the device is small but it need a factory to just operate..
Is this possible.¿
If it is possible then why NASA is not doing it ¿
I still dey vex for yesterday acolyte episode
Man we can do better than this dude hire me as your writer and researcher 😅
Cool Tesla coils.🤯. Magneto Hydro Dynamics, an age old tech, lost due to material unavailability to contain the extreme pressures and temperatures. Eventually all plasma is nothing but a form of Vapor(ware🤞).❤👍
Commercial fission energy production has been with us for 70 years and yet we haven't managed to miniaturize it to make it portable. Fusion is not yet figured out and you're already trying to make it "smaller than a washing machine"? Keep dreaming buddy!
$SMR & $NNE baby!! I believe AI data centers and a large portion of energy generated in the future will be a hybrid Nuclear/Renewable combination. Good luck !!!
1 mini-fusion reactor, check! All I need now, is 1 De Lorean and 1 flux capacitor. I just hope that mini-fusion reactor can produce 3.2 GW of energy.
This sounds too giberish, have to look into it
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Can you do a history on 50 Cent please
Finally someone did it! I have waited my whole life for this - a portable power source than could be used instead of rockets. Good job guys.👍
curious how these guys will compete with the new Rolls Royce reactor... i could see their advertised usecases being more attractive to the US market if its from rolls royce than this new startup.
Personally, I think right now Helion is closer to market, but I'm still a big Avalanche fan because I so wanna own one.😄
How much expected electricity output from the model?
soooo sick; jealous! watching now.
How you do not have 2M+ subscribers yet beats me.
Love these topics. Perhaps give yourself a little rim light for the dark room talking head scenes. Keep it up!
4:20 homie did you just show Saturn V when referencing the Shuttle 🙊
That approach makes sense. I thought they were going to say muons.
These Videos take so long to come out, but are worth EVERY SECOND!!!! Keep it Up
Thank you John Coogan for always providing knowledge
If they manage to make it work it will be insanely useful.
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Great one these videos are so inspiring !
You're just too good to be true...
need more deep tech like this
It's such a shame how much fear mongering has negatively impacted the progress of Nuclear energy so badly. (I'd almost even assume the oil companies would be very happy about this?) At this point tho Modern nuclear energy options really should be one of the main things we utilize in collaboration with other alternative energy sources all over the world. Especially with all the advancements we now have. Our knowledge around safety measures is much more understood. We've also seen vast improvements in engineering, material science, technology, robotics, etc. They are all much more advanced now. This power source is the best option to improve our environment & will really help lower our emissions. The only things holding us back is legislation, fear mongering & past trauma that's affected us from our past (which is understandable but we really gotta give it a chance to see if it can prove it has progressed & improved)
Did they outlaw electricity or oil, coal when things went wrong in the early days of those fields? No! They kept going and understood things usually are bumpy and difficult in the beginning and kept going even tho those sources negatively impacted our environment. A huge issue is government BLOCKING any sort of progression from happening. We'd be lucky to see the slightest projects approved or finished with-in the next 100 years.. It's very annoying to see how much we have gotten in our own way when it comes to improving or advancing certain things. Instead we let fear, money, man made "required legal processes" Stop us from doing anything other than wind, solar, oil, natural gas, damming our rivers, mining for minerals... It's very frustrating because we should be able to use all these options in collaboration. If we actually wanted to improve anything. That's what we need to do and stop letting so much potential get blocked from ever occurring in the first place.. It's really irritating. I wish certain people didn't make this so "complicated and difficult" Why would any reasonable person want to block progression?
Another thing we are seeing is many places struggling with a lack of water. Strangely we have created so many systems that run off water right into the ocean as quick as possible. We are not utilizing it, we aren't adapting or using our ingenuity. Yet we keep hearing in the news how important water is, so you'd think we'd adjust our systems so they can utilize what rain water certain area's receives? Idk why so many places like California let a lot of their water run off right back out into the ocean? Something else I wish we would do is put effort into reintroducing the importance of wetlands. The importance of bringing back things like Beaver's in certain area's. Beavers are keystone species and can enhance an entire ecosystem. It's very beneficial to have wetland habitats around. Just because we "build modern cities" we shouldn't lose this important aspect of our habitats. They are beneficial in so many ways. We should get rid of a lot of Dams. It could bring back salmon runs for example and it allows for important nutrients and sediment flow to occur again that is supposed to happen in natural water ways. We really could improve aspects of our environment if we didn't dam up every river & alter so many of our water systems. I know it's stigmatized but I really think modern nuclear energy options is our best option going forward and if we did that it could really improve our situation with our climate.
The more i learn about our power grid, the more i realize that modern nuclear energy options are our best option. Small form reactors, LFTRs, Thorium Reactors, molten salt reactors. Utilizing our advanced technology, Improved engineering & material science. Utilizing our greater understanding of safety & well made designs. We have so much more advanced computer technology & robotics that can be used. It feels like even tho tons of advancement has occurred with engineering designs, safety measures, etc. It still doesn't matter to most people. It's like most people are ingrained with a natural negative response when talking about nuclear energy. It's a bummer because i truly believe that our best option for our future is to start utilizing Modern advanced nuclear energy options in our electrical grid. It's just proving to be challenging to get politicians to get on board.
It will really allow places to be much more energy independent. Less reliant on fossil fuels. They'll have efficient, stable electrical grids and the rest of the grid could experiment with alternative power sources, power desalination plants, etc.
We need to heal from the trauma of our past. See & learn that those things only happened solely from Us not understanding what we were doing when it came to nuclear energy at the time. We didn't have advanced enough technology, material science, engineering, safety measures, understanding of how to go about everything, etc. This source of energy will greatly help the world improve towards the future and lowering emissions. More than anything else could, while also providing a very stable electrical grid system. Currently we have alternative energy options but the majority of our grid is powered off of fossil fuels and emission producing sources of energy. We will be so much better going forward commiting to modern advanced nuclear energy options.
In my opinion it's been so irritating that we've taken this "You can make a difference" approach. When it just plays with people's emotions. This issue is so much bigger than individual people. We need countries/states to get on board. It's the only way we can make even the Slightest difference. We've already waited too long. Everyday is a day wasted & we haven't even made a dent in improving our situation.
Very cool tech
Hell yeah
Amazing ❤
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Recommend checking General Atomics in Torrey Pines. They’re the leader in Fusion technology. The majority of ITER uses the patents or direct manufacturing
Fake news! Everybody knows that for a real fusion you need potara earrings 😤
Plasma doughnuts again.
Very cool project with a lot of potential but they shouldn't let the military have access to their tech.
Military is where all the money is
Wonder what we’re gonna do when the Chinese military has it and we don’t…
"They" won't let this come to fruition, like many of the patents that have been squashed and hidden away.
"22 Workers Killed After Single Malfunctioning Lithium Battery Sets Off Disastrous Chain Reaction", and this sh;t comes up?!?
First
I'm first!
What can fusion do that thorium can't?