How Google Solved Nuclear Fusion's Big Problem

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  • Did you know Google's artificial intelligence company DeepMind has been working to solve one of the biggest problems in nuclear fusion?
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  • @ZirothTech
    @ZirothTech  Рік тому +54

    Thanks for all the feedback, there seems to be a few questions about the reinforcement learning, and I feel like I should have given more detail as I perhaps oversimplified it for the sake of the video - so here is a little more information!
    Given experiences during the training process, the reinforcement learning system learns how to predict what reward it will receive from a given action (such as changing a magnets strength). Therefore, when it is operating in the real world it can predict what action will give it the highest reward value and choose that. Therefore, it is not so much rewarded or punished like we think of it, but it learns how to make decisions that maximise the predicted reward of its action. In this sence, a punishment is more the absence of a reward. This is a pretty tricky concept to make a short video or comment about, so I recommend watching the MIT lecture I have linked in the description if you are interested! Thanks, Ryan (Ziroth) 😀

    • @edopronk1303
      @edopronk1303 Рік тому

      Good you react on feedback. I still don't understand how one 'rewards' an AI, so I might look at the MIT video.
      I do like short videos to the point like yours. You may want to look at your analogies; people who are interested in fusion videos and Google ai do know what a simulation is, so you don't need an analogy with the pilot. The bottle one was good, while it explained a more rate phenomenon.

    • @DevinDTV
      @DevinDTV Рік тому +6

      it's best to not call it reward/punishment, it gives an extremely inaccurate impression. the AI is optimizing for a "reward function", it's not actually a reward like a treat for a dog. it's just a value where larger=better. the AI is simply designed to try and obtain the largest possible value, and researchers make the value awarded correlated with the real world result we want, therefore the AI achieves something aligned with our goals. that's the idea

    • @alexandrekassiantchouk1632
      @alexandrekassiantchouk1632 Рік тому

      BS because AI, deep mind, ML ... - all trained on huge stats+results, but these are 0 by now.

    • @ckhalifa_
      @ckhalifa_ Рік тому

      @@edopronk1303 simply by adding to a sum. The RL algorithm deliberately chooses a set of actions that lead to the highest sum.

    • @marcusoutdoors4999
      @marcusoutdoors4999 Рік тому

      I understand that. You are a really great communicator and researcher hence my desire to see what you can come up with on the dreaded "cold fusion", while there is a huge stigma attached to this technology, I suspect that it may prove to be the winner in this race.

  • @pyropulseIXXI
    @pyropulseIXXI Рік тому +21

    I hate how people say a torus is donut shaped; no....a donut is torus shaped! TORUS SUPREMECY

    • @Tailspin80
      @Tailspin80 Рік тому

      Homer would take issue with you.

  • @micmacha
    @micmacha Рік тому +124

    I can definitely understand why Google is interested in cheap clean energy. Their server farms take up an enormous amount of power. It would be nothing but good news for them.

    • @kevinkasp
      @kevinkasp Рік тому

      FYI 20 years from now geothermal power will be the big thing. It’s going to kill off solar, wind, gas, and nuclear.
      A revolution is about to kick off.
      Everywhere on earth, 10km below the surface is enough heat power to produce so much power that only 0.01% would satisfy all of humanity’s power needs for two million years. The technology advances from oil & gas fracking is revolutionizing geothermal power production.

    • @prumchhangsreng979
      @prumchhangsreng979 Рік тому +19

      Bruh it’s good new for everyone, it would bring human to the next stage. U will not need to worry about electric bill. Invention that are too energy hungry will no longer be a problem.

    • @tjampman
      @tjampman Рік тому +1

      I don't see how fusion will every be cheap! The capital cost of a fusion power plant I doubt will ever be feasible for anything other than prestige projects and as experimental physics.

    • @stagnant-name5851
      @stagnant-name5851 Рік тому +17

      @@prumchhangsreng979 you would still be worrying about your electricity bill because when we have more to consume we consume more. A few decades after fusion is achieved we would have things in our homes that took of orders of magnitude more power than before.

    • @stagnant-name5851
      @stagnant-name5851 Рік тому +4

      @@tjampman It produces energy energy = money. And it will do it with cheap fuel. And the military would salivate at using it in warships for cool stuff like railguns. That require immense amount of power. And many other things.

  • @phrozenwun
    @phrozenwun Рік тому +16

    Wait wait, I have heard this one before; is this the story about using artificial intelligence to control tritium fusion, where the lead scientist was named Dr. Octavius?

  • @mervstar
    @mervstar Рік тому +42

    Using AI to predict anomalies and quickly adjust to confine a sustained fusion reaction? Has anyone checked in with Dr. Otto Octavius to see how his plan for this is working out for him?

    • @abj136
      @abj136 Рік тому +14

      Advise not connecting the AI directly to your brain, nor to giant mechanical claws.

    • @puntabachata
      @puntabachata Рік тому +1

      I prefer the Barkley approach to deactivating the Argus Array fusion reactors by becoming the Enterprise's computer. Nobody dies and the crew gets a quick trip to the galactic center.

    • @targard.quantumfrack6854
      @targard.quantumfrack6854 Рік тому

      @@abj136 You joking? That's all I'm waiting for!

    • @unknow11712
      @unknow11712 Рік тому

      man... i hope you trolling , but there are still so many ppl that base theyr fear of AI on films and fantasy ...

    • @targard.quantumfrack6854
      @targard.quantumfrack6854 Рік тому +1

      @@unknow11712 I was joking, about becoming Octo, yes but when the tech is "safe" I'm absulutely not against nor fearful of brain-machine interfaces. I subscribe to the transhumanist philosophy.

  • @michalchik
    @michalchik Рік тому +145

    In addition to the four points you listed comma the fuel cycle being probably the hardest of what you listed, there's the issue of how you bleed off energy through the cryogenically cold the super conducting magnets to drive a steam turbine or some sort of plasma dynamic generator. There are ideas about how to do this for example Neutron capture in a sodium blanket but that's not an idea without problems.
    I still think molten salt thorium reactors are a much more viable source of nearly unlimited energy for the near term.

    • @grandlotus1
      @grandlotus1 Рік тому +19

      I wondered the same thing and agree about the molten Thorium salt reactors. Practical fusion still seems decades away, while I get the impression that commercial Thorium salt reactors could be developed much faster if we put our societal / policy minds to it.

    • @capt4in1
      @capt4in1 Рік тому +4

      That's why I was always more interested in aneutronic fusion. Since most of the energy is release as charged particles instead of neutrons you can just use induction to harness that and convert it directly to electricity. Also has the side effect of not having to worry as much about reactor embrittlement and the fuels are more abundant and not radioactive. The main downside is that it's 10x harder to achieve temperature wise:/

    • @michalchik
      @michalchik Рік тому +2

      @@capt4in1 I haven't seen anybody do a study on it yet but my guess is that most superconductors, particularly the high temperature one suffer a lot with prolonged radiation exposure.

    • @michalchik
      @michalchik Рік тому +2

      @@capt4in1 I just looked it up and just this year July 2022 there was a paper published in nature about the degradation effects of neutron radiation in high temperature superconductors used for fusion. That's another reason to go a neutronic or better yet to Molten salt reactors

    • @TheHorseshoePartyUK
      @TheHorseshoePartyUK Рік тому +2

      I'm no expert but I'm smart enough to know I know nothing, and also follow science news best I can, with some very smart friends. Last I heard Hastelloy or similar was basically perfected to contain the corrosive Thorium. Also makes me smirk when well-intended wallys of our end backfire and call Fusion a 'pipe dream'
      As they have no clue the Greenwald Limit got updated, then go light up.

  • @cmilkau
    @cmilkau Рік тому +39

    The important bit separating reinforcement learning from other training methods is that it rewards a chain of actions rather than a single response. It is often combined with autoregressive ANN nowadays, so the network just picks one action at a time, then it is fed back its previous actions and their result(s) as input.

    • @Binahx86
      @Binahx86 Рік тому

      Still not enough though, Ai needs an actual thought mechanism, not just a action selection ability.

    • @Syntaxmoe
      @Syntaxmoe Рік тому

      @@Binahx86 my guess is we'll have something like that by 2030

    • @nenrikido2903
      @nenrikido2903 Рік тому

      @@Binahx86 we already have some stuff like that, recent papers have developped on associative memory mechanisms with spiking neural networks, which tend to reproduce what actually happens in our brain (spikes of energy from electricity currents) to emulate a thought mechanism
      It's still in research phase, and looking at how some convolutional neural networks and other memory based networks have only been implemented to public use recently, id guess we'll see those implemented in 5 to 10 years

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      @ironcammandooo6061 Рік тому

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  • @kazimir8086
    @kazimir8086 Рік тому +654

    "Nuclear Fusion's Biggest Problem" is that' it's not working, so they made it work? No? Title is misleading.

    • @zillibran
      @zillibran Рік тому +52

      biggest problem is that it's nearly impossible to remove electrons from a plasma amalgam that melts everything that comes in contact with.

    • @kazimir8086
      @kazimir8086 Рік тому +35

      @@zillibran That's surely one of the biggest problems, but THE biggest problem? I think my comment still applies. ;)

    • @irowebot
      @irowebot Рік тому +103

      "Not working" isn't a specific problem. AI is solving the underlying issue that's preventing it from working. How is that misleading?

    • @RupertReynolds1962
      @RupertReynolds1962 Рік тому +16

      Well, apart from being able to source enough tritium (e.g. from a lithium blanket), which is going to be a challenge, and lifetime of materials exposed to a huge number of neutrons, what is there?
      I'd say maintaining a sufficient density of plasma, at sufficient temperature, for long enough, is the big one. Without that, there is not much point!

    • @bornatona3954
      @bornatona3954 Рік тому +3

      Actually that is "only" problem

  • @human_isomer
    @human_isomer Рік тому +21

    Interesting video. And nice to see your subscriber numbers grow. It'd be interesting to see a short channel update about that from time to time.
    And it would also be interesting to see more about reinforcement learning. Especially how this works on a computer system, when rewards and punishments seem to make sense only when some kind of feelings are involved.

    • @B.Lastend
      @B.Lastend Рік тому +3

      If rewards = True then
      keep going
      ElseIf punishments = True then
      try again
      End If
      There are your feelings...

    • @ZirothTech
      @ZirothTech  Рік тому +3

      I have added a link in the description to MIT's great video about reinforcement learning which gives much more details! Unfortunately, it is a complex topic that is very difficult to explain accurately in a short pop-science video! I hope you find this source useful :D

    • @human_isomer
      @human_isomer Рік тому

      @@ZirothTech Thanks, I'll pass that on 👍

    • @human_isomer
      @human_isomer Рік тому +1

      @@B.Lastend a machine doesn't care about iterating as nauseam. Maybe you should watch the linked video, too.

    • @B.Lastend
      @B.Lastend Рік тому

      @@human_isomer maybe I am a programmer and just wanted to explain u the video content in simple. I said nothing wrong 🤷‍♂️

  • @PromethorYT
    @PromethorYT Рік тому +8

    Maybe I just missed the information, how did the AI perform with the real reactor ? I don't think you provided data on its achievements so far. So... why ''Google Solved Nuclear Fusion'' in the title? Did I miss something.

    • @ZirothTech
      @ZirothTech  Рік тому +4

      The graphs of it containing the plasma are from the real reactor, sorry that wasn't made clear

    • @PromethorYT
      @PromethorYT Рік тому

      @@ZirothTech thanks for the clarification:)

  • @haifutter4166
    @haifutter4166 Рік тому +4

    What I take away from this video is that via deep learning we can decrease the time we need to figure out the current limits and flaws of our models or the used method and technology, but it isn't clear wether this will ever solve anything.
    So the word "solved" is totally misplaced in this video. It rather should say: This approach X could drastically increase testing speed for experimental fusion reactors.

  • @StephenRayner
    @StephenRayner Рік тому +20

    Masters degree in physics here. I enjoyed this video. You taught me some terms from the industry and explained it quickly rather than going over the absolute basics you presented something new around AI applications and what’s happening. Appreciate it

    • @ZirothTech
      @ZirothTech  Рік тому +2

      Glad you enjoyed it! I appreciate the kind words

  • @justincase699
    @justincase699 Рік тому +7

    Been saying it for years we need an ai to maintain the fusion reaction. Our computers are very fast but what the problem is that we're not doing something in the present you need to be able to predict inputs to maintain a small or proto star. That kind of of constant vigilance and insane algorithmic fore thinking is something only a machine could do.

    • @spicychad55
      @spicychad55 Рік тому +2

      AI might be best for both production of better tech designs, settings and as well as maintaining fusion reactions. It should perhaps be open sourced so more than just reactor's team working on it, as more thinking heads can solve problems better and faster.

    • @TasX
      @TasX Рік тому

      Yeah and fusion scientists have been doing that for years, since 2014 at least. It’s not as simple as slapping on an ai algorithm to diagnostics since the signals coming in are discrete and not high enough resolution for good real time control

  • @Enjoymentboy
    @Enjoymentboy Рік тому +5

    So does this mean that commercially viable fusion is now only 30 years away?

  • @erikschiegg68
    @erikschiegg68 Рік тому +2

    They found a sustainable and afforable Tritium source?

    • @chrislambe400
      @chrislambe400 Рік тому

      Breeding it in a lithium blanket or summin' like that

    • @Gomlmon99
      @Gomlmon99 Рік тому

      Breeding

  • @jay2aussie
    @jay2aussie Рік тому

    Well done mate. Good video

  • @andrewreynolds912
    @andrewreynolds912 Рік тому +1

    Great video, please do more! I bet you could be both an awesome space sci fi channel as well something for other stuff would be cool.

  • @autohmae
    @autohmae Рік тому +1

    Funny how you took a small part of a full interview I had already watched and made a whole video about it.

  • @russellthorburn9297
    @russellthorburn9297 Рік тому +2

    I clicked on this video thinking "Sigh. Here we go. Let's see what kind of malarkey we have here.". I was pleasantly surprise to see nothing of the sort. 🙂

  • @Strop9911
    @Strop9911 Рік тому +6

    If only there was a big ball of plasma in the sky that could do nuclear fusion for us :(

    • @dallassukerkin6878
      @dallassukerkin6878 Рік тому

      :chuckles: Take a guess at the efficiency rating of PV ... and it's relative cost.

    • @boboften9952
      @boboften9952 Рік тому +1

      I'll light a candle in support of having a big ball of plasma in the sky

    • @Strop9911
      @Strop9911 Рік тому

      @@dallassukerkin6878 :chuckles: Take a guess at the efficiency of nuclear fusion and it's relative cost XD

    • @drdca8263
      @drdca8263 Рік тому +1

      And if we could build a Dyson swarm around it to collect that energy, we’d be good.
      However, we currently don’t have access to that.

    • @dallassukerkin6878
      @dallassukerkin6878 Рік тому

      @@Strop9911 :grins: A bit moot at the moment given that it's not a functional technology. Once it is (or IF :)), however, then humanities power problems are, if not over, then significantly resolved in terms of cost and availability. PV has it's uses but it is not efficient in either production or cost per unit.

  • @jeffriesmovies
    @jeffriesmovies Рік тому +1

    If I understand correctly, the Wendelstein 7X is also an attempt to shape the reactor into these idiosyncratic forms that are best suited to containing the plasma. Look it up, it’s wild looking and just ramping up

  • @luckyspec2274
    @luckyspec2274 Рік тому

    4:20 "mathematically punished"....sounds like you're asking for revenge

  • @mojeimja
    @mojeimja Рік тому +1

    Soooooo, that all gets us about 30-40 years from readily available industrial fusion power plants, right?

  • @garrytuohy9267
    @garrytuohy9267 Рік тому

    For quite some time I have imagined that someone was working on modelling and control of the plasma instabilities, but this is the first video on this very important topic I have seen

  • @loisplayer
    @loisplayer Рік тому +10

    Really cool use of reinforcement learning! Thanks for another great video :)

  • @notlessgrossman163
    @notlessgrossman163 Рік тому

    "Dr Octopus it's not ready, it has a mind of its own"

  • @leewingate264
    @leewingate264 Рік тому +1

    I think you need to read up about the involvement of the UKAEA and The JET experiment at Culham in the UK. Jet has been going since 1992 and a huge amount of data from that has gone into the ITER build. Including the latest X-Diverter technology

  • @wingman2tuc
    @wingman2tuc Рік тому +1

    Plasma is super hot. But also incredibly hard to get it to that temperature. The problem of the plasma patch in the wall is not burning the wall, but cooling down the plasma.

  • @mathiaslist6705
    @mathiaslist6705 Рік тому +1

    A Tokamak means you have a natural limit to confinement time ... also there are two different temperatures --- one for the electrons and one for the nuclei --- I'd not say that this was a break through as practical fusion ( fusion with energy gain) is more complicated --- especially when scaling it down to human dimensions as giantic constructions do not have those constraints like "the monster machine" or brown dwarves/failed dwarves.

  • @MrJBA79
    @MrJBA79 Рік тому

    New subscriber.. I like what I see dude, well played.

  • @arnaudj-d1896
    @arnaudj-d1896 Рік тому

    Justin ball is my professor, such a great teacher !! I appreciate the fact that he answered some of your questions, good content !

  • @malcolmcrompton1558
    @malcolmcrompton1558 Рік тому

    Another great video from Ziroth

  • @platin2148
    @platin2148 Рік тому +1

    Hmm the reason why we choose to use a tokamak is because you can change the fields very easily it’s not some that will be used for the reactors themselves that produce energy. If you thought that my bad they will use a stellerator after finding the best configuration for the magnets as it’s way better.

  • @michaelsmith2785
    @michaelsmith2785 Рік тому +1

    Sounds great. What I still wanna know is, how do they expect to get usable energy out of this?

    • @steinis6409
      @steinis6409 Рік тому

      As usual like all the other power-plant technologies. We're boiling water which powers a nozzle.
      The trick is to use as few input energy as nesessary to hold the fusion-reaction "going on" and harvest more energy it outputs then we used to make it start.

    • @michaelsmith2785
      @michaelsmith2785 Рік тому +1

      @@steinis6409 But how do you boil water from a magnetically-confined plasma that's at millions of degrees, inside a vacuum? It's not exactly like you can run piping for a heat exchanger through it...?

    • @steinis6409
      @steinis6409 Рік тому

      ​@@michaelsmith2785 One product of the fusion are neutral charged but ofcourse very hot (uncharged) neutrons. Those can leave the magnetic-vacuum due to missing charge they don't interact with the magnetic field.
      Instead they will hit the mantle which is made to be hit by the neutrons. The neutrons will cool down alot when hitting the generator-wall which will heat up in exchange..
      The heat from this outer wall will be transported via heat exchanger to the water which boils, powers the nozzle and so the rest is well known technique.

  • @lanep2023
    @lanep2023 Рік тому +1

    Fusions first and biggest problem is that Tritium costs $30,000/gram requiring charging a price for electricity that by far exceeds current levels.

    • @danielc1175
      @danielc1175 Рік тому

      There is a way to produce tritium inside a fusion reactor, which could make it affordable.

  • @tonymillw6309
    @tonymillw6309 Рік тому

    Google couldn't solve a jigsaw puzzle!

  • @Lambert7785
    @Lambert7785 Рік тому

    "how google's ai is helping to solve one of nuclear fusion"s big problems" would be a truthful title

  • @mlce4701
    @mlce4701 Рік тому +1

    Building entire ecosystem around fusion reactors will be perfect in mars biospheres.

  • @jorissimaitis7619
    @jorissimaitis7619 Рік тому

    Super cool!!! 😁

  • @aykutt3244
    @aykutt3244 Рік тому +1

    If the plasma touches the inner walls it wouldn't burn anything. The plasma would cool down and the reaction would stop. That's also why it is very safe.

  • @apacheaccountant9757
    @apacheaccountant9757 Рік тому

    Could you provide confinement time before and after RL?

  • @LDdrums20
    @LDdrums20 Рік тому

    Wasn't the stellarator the best shape possible?

  • @a-fl-man640
    @a-fl-man640 Рік тому

    well done

  • @stevenrn6640
    @stevenrn6640 Рік тому +1

    I thought you were going to say "How are they going to get all that Tritium." Fusion is a 100+ pipe dream; worth working on but don't make any bets on it.

  • @lazaryanya9407
    @lazaryanya9407 Рік тому +2

    In a world where fusion power plants exist you would have a thermal pollution problem.

    • @wedmunds
      @wedmunds Рік тому +1

      That's a fancy way to say “global warming”

    • @Darth_Insidious
      @Darth_Insidious Рік тому +1

      "Thermal pollution" isn't a power generation problem, it would be a power consumption problem. These reactors would be very well insulated because loss of heat to the environment results in a loss of efficiency. Heat would come from all the electrical appliances connected to the plant, which turn electricity into useful energy that winds up eventually as heat.

    • @matthewparker9276
      @matthewparker9276 Рік тому

      ​@@Darth_Insidious thermal pollution is a power generation problem as well.
      In particular, coal and gas fired power plants release a lot of energy as waste heat into the environment. Geothermal and nuclear plants release less waste heat, and solar, wind, and wave generators extract energy from the environment, so don't suffer this issue.

    • @Darth_Insidious
      @Darth_Insidious Рік тому

      @@matthewparker9276 I wonder how big a problem waste heat would actually be. Seems like our concrete jungles do more to heat up the local environment than power generation.

    • @MattNolanCustom
      @MattNolanCustom Рік тому +2

      Waste heat from power production and consumption is, at present rates, about 1/100 the scale of the heating problem caused by excess greenhouse gases. It will be a long time before we reach the point where we've decarbonised electricity, transport and industrial heat and then grown power production sufficiently to cause an actual planetary heating problem. If we get to that point, more CO2 capture would redress the balance. If we even later still get to the point where there isn't enough CO2 left in the cycle for plant life, we're probably doing all the heavy industry in orbit and further out in space, so we can reduce energy consumption needs on terra firma anyhow. A quicker fix would be to replace concrete with some kind of composite.

  • @TheNoodlyAppendage
    @TheNoodlyAppendage Рік тому

    And yet they cant write a navigation app that doesnt route me through 300 miles of small towns at night.

  • @arnabsaha5185
    @arnabsaha5185 Рік тому

    Make a video on quantum noise power device..

  • @elevatedapples
    @elevatedapples Рік тому

    “Mathematically punish” sounds like a discipline ill never get used too or understand 😞🙂😔

  • @logic0905
    @logic0905 Рік тому

    Greetings from the COMPASS tokamak :) !

  • @jeffriesmovies
    @jeffriesmovies Рік тому

    A really great brisk read on Fusion is “The Star Builders” by Arthur Turrell

  • @JackSparrow-re4ql
    @JackSparrow-re4ql Рік тому

    A lightsabre is actually a miniature, hand held nuclear fusion reactor.

  • @PunishedRuh
    @PunishedRuh Рік тому

    Dr Octavius already did this in Spiderman 2

  • @BananaBLACK
    @BananaBLACK Рік тому

    Does sound travel through plasma? Perhaps harmonics could be used with magnetic fields to produce novel shapes.

  • @desdenova1
    @desdenova1 Рік тому

    In StarCraft Protoss voice: "You require more tritium gas!"

  • @ggesdsdsdsd
    @ggesdsdsdsd Рік тому

    Maybe a plasma jet engine would be more simple to make, but who knows if you could actually get more power out than you put in.

  • @nilavanezhil8036
    @nilavanezhil8036 Рік тому

    Why does Google solving the nuclear Fusion problem feels like the rising of SKYNET!

  • @pauljs75
    @pauljs75 Рік тому

    At some point they should still try to figure out how to collapse that donut hole and do field isolation without a physical central column. It's a lot of wasted volume as far as concentrating energy would be concerned. The tighter you can collapse the plasma towards a pinch-point or focus, the hotter you can get it with less energy being input - therefore more efficient.

  • @Norable426
    @Norable426 Рік тому

    The fusion reactor looks alot like the big arc reactor in iron man 1.

  • @pernormann4869
    @pernormann4869 Рік тому

    Deepmind> We will have fusion power in 30 years.

  • @andrewreynolds912
    @andrewreynolds912 Рік тому

    I wish you had a discord would be very cool because I got stuff you will love to see for fusion

  • @Ottbucket
    @Ottbucket Рік тому +1

    Question: How is energy withdrawn from the reactor to provide energy to generators?

    • @Ottbucket
      @Ottbucket Рік тому

      @@mr_clean575 I understand that but how is the heat removed from the reactor. The plasma is contained in a mag field. How is the plasma handled so that it can transfer its heat??

  • @alphahelix91
    @alphahelix91 Рік тому

    Wenn dies dann richtig abläuft, braucht man unter zusätzlichen vektoriellen Feldstärken eine richtige
    Teilchen spezifische Kernresonanz (Protonen und Neutronen jeweils ) damit auch alles richtig resonant
    im Kern zusammengeht.

  • @jyotikrishnan2824
    @jyotikrishnan2824 Рік тому

    Who would've thought - the solution was just a "Google search" away?!

  • @zadrik1337
    @zadrik1337 Рік тому

    All together now say noo-klee-er

  • @Lell19862010
    @Lell19862010 Рік тому

    Would it be easier to control the plasma in absence of gravity?

  • @Carcerian
    @Carcerian Рік тому +1

    Wait, we're going to give an AI Nuclear Material then Punish it like a puppy?
    Didn't ANYONE at google ever watch the Terminator series? ☠🤖☠

  • @gaming_369
    @gaming_369 Рік тому +1

    I feel bad for the AI being mathematically punished :(

  • @SSHayden
    @SSHayden Рік тому +14

    Well, good to know there is some use out of Google still. I was starting to think this company will only focus on helping setting up a surveillance state, and developing intrusive, unavoidable advertisiment with data mining.

    • @Darth_Insidious
      @Darth_Insidious Рік тому +3

      Google is primarily an artificial intelligence company. Always has been. Advertising is just one use of many for their models. Their focus isn't on primarily selling user data, so unlike Facebook Google will be fine even with Apple becoming increasingly closed off with data collection on their systems.

    • @stevengill1736
      @stevengill1736 Рік тому

      Yeah ...the Long Now foundation is pretty cool too...hope I live long enough to see fusion become a viable power source...

    • @svenkummetz2434
      @svenkummetz2434 Рік тому +4

      @@Darth_Insidious google made 80-85% of their revenue through advertisement. Google is pretty clearly primarily an advertisement company with a gigantic focus on indirectly selling user data.

    • @TheInfectous
      @TheInfectous Рік тому +3

      @@Darth_Insidious Google operates the exact same way as facebook, they utilize user data to deliver targeted ads which in turn generates more through advertising. They're going to take a revenue hit same as facebook.

    • @bort6414
      @bort6414 Рік тому

      Bold of you to assume a tree that only produces evil fruits will spontaneously begin producing good fruit as soon as they have the technology that could be used to effectively enslave the rest of the free world by energy monopoly...

  • @ShamblerDK
    @ShamblerDK Рік тому

    I'm glad the title isn't "biggest problem" as the absolute biggest problem with nuclear fusion is that it's always 10 years away and have been so for almost a century. Notify me, when we have a reactor actually producing power for the people.

    • @Gomlmon99
      @Gomlmon99 Рік тому

      Who says it’s ten years away?

  • @andymiron7941
    @andymiron7941 Рік тому

    150 Million degrees???? That is kind of pretty hot.

  • @bobpurcell5662
    @bobpurcell5662 Рік тому

    My prediction? Fusion is about twenty five years away.

  • @arguanmodeth
    @arguanmodeth Рік тому

    With the cost of home based solar pannels and batteries dropping below the cost of building power lines, how is fusion going to compete?

  • @johnh6245
    @johnh6245 Рік тому

    Presumably there must be many sensors to detect the shape of the magnetic field and provide feedback for the magnets. However, I have been told that such sensors, and any diagnostics with insulators, will have an extremely short lifetime in the DT neutron flux, and plasma control will go out of the window.

    • @ZirothTech
      @ZirothTech  Рік тому +3

      Here is a quote from their scientific paper:
      "TCV (the reactor) is equipped with several real-time sensors and our control
      policies use a subset of these sensors. In particular, we use 34 of the wire
      loops that measure magnetic flux, 38 probes that measure the local
      magnetic field and 19 measurements of the current in active control
      coils (augmented with an explicit measure of the difference in current
      between the ohmic coils). In addition to the magnetic sensors, TCV is
      equipped with other sensors that are not available in real time, such
      as the cameras."
      I hope this helps!

    • @johnh6245
      @johnh6245 Рік тому

      Thanks for this - you’re well informed. So how will they all deal with the 14 MeV neutron damage?

    • @TasX
      @TasX Рік тому +1

      @@johnh6245 isn’t neutron heating supposed to be the main goal? So a cheap modular blanket material that can be swapped out will be the goal

  • @SkepticalCaveman
    @SkepticalCaveman Рік тому +1

    Even if fusion power become reality it's still dependent on the electrical grid. Solar is not. The independence solar gives is a huge advantage. In summary, yes, fusion would be great especially for the industry, but it's not really needed.

  • @Jerakk30
    @Jerakk30 Рік тому

    I figured one of fusion's biggest problems would be how to get any useful energy out of the system. Like... exactly how are you extracting it and turning it into something that could say... power a city? At some point in time you need to have the actual plasma interact with something physically in order to transfer energy from one form to another, like a need to weaken or turn off the magnetic field in order to let something come through. With the operating temperatures of the plasma... that would be pretty much impossible right? Considering that we don't have any materials that could withstand direct contact for long periods of time.

    • @MattNolanCustom
      @MattNolanCustom Рік тому +2

      Tokamaks, stellarators, etc. do not intend to extract the energy from the plasma within the confinement region. When you fuse Deuterium and Tritium nuclei, you get a helium nucleus with 1/5 of the fusion energy and a neutron with 4/5 of the fusion energy. The helium stays confined in the plasma and helps maintain the heat (saves you adding external heat to maintain the pulse) but the neutron is not confined. The idea is to capture the kinetic energy of the neutrons in a liquid lithium "blanket", outside the plasma, directly from collisions and indirectly through fission reactions the neutrons cause which, conveniently, produce more heat and more tritium. Pert of ITER's work is to figure out and prove the lithium blanket system, but other MCF projects are working on it also - CFS, Tokamak Energy, etc.

  • @piyushpanchal046
    @piyushpanchal046 Рік тому

    How did they actually use the reactor to generate electricity????

  • @StefKomGeekru
    @StefKomGeekru Рік тому

    (This is a comment section, and I’m not citing any sources, so I hope you understand this is my personal opinion.)
    I find it weird that people keep calling it reward or punishment. It is not punishment. There is no pain, no negative consequences for the algorithm. It is only picking the one that we give a higher value as a result.
    It is just like saying pick the closest to this point. Nothing else, no rewarding, no punishment, there is no sense of self, or gratification or enjoyment. Just directions.

  • @francistam9501
    @francistam9501 Рік тому

    How do you hold the sun in your hands without getting burn? Similar question was asked over and over again in the history of Humanity. We played with fire first, with steam, with internal combustion, with nuclear fission. Now we just need build a lamp with a tiny sun in it.

  • @caosking7869
    @caosking7869 Рік тому

    The plasma in fusion reactors isn’t able to burn the wall cut it is t dense enough

  • @alphahelix91
    @alphahelix91 Рік тому

    droplets and drop attacks ? and following suggar curls ?

  • @marcok9485
    @marcok9485 Рік тому

    Maybe have a look at Stellarators.

  • @soverien41
    @soverien41 Рік тому

    I have a idea it's a theory so bare with me thinking outside the box. What if the inside chamber had three separate sets of magnetics that could make three separate plasma rings. Any irregularities for shifts in plasma could jump between the three rings of plasma. Obviously there would be some engineering involved. I believe a pull on one would cause a push on another. In my theory this constant push and pull between the three could be enough to have a self sustaining relationship of balance.

    • @guytech7310
      @guytech7310 Рік тому

      You would basically have stacked tokamaks. You won't be able to create three separate plasma rings in side of a single toroid.

  • @agentnull5242
    @agentnull5242 Рік тому

    Love your animation style and diagrams!

  • @smileyp4535
    @smileyp4535 Рік тому +1

    The "big problem" of fusion is that we can't get it to work, this is clickbait
    "A big problem" would make the title accurate, good video but just misleading title

  • @Pierluigi_Di_Lorenzo
    @Pierluigi_Di_Lorenzo Рік тому

    The biggest problem is Tritium supply. There are only 2.5 kg available which will be consumed by experimental reactors. No more Tritium can be produced.

  • @The.Golden.Door.
    @The.Golden.Door. Рік тому

    The biggest problem with this design is simply in the middle...the center ring is poorly designed to hold PLASMA. I recommend using more natural shapes with two Pyramidion poles reflecting each other in a Torus

  • @burnerjack01
    @burnerjack01 Рік тому

    Yep. Only thirty years away now.

  • @llennoco
    @llennoco Рік тому

    "How Google's AI is bringing us closer to Nuclear Fusion" would be a much less "clickbaity" title. There are much bigger issues in the way of fusion that plasma shape.

  • @user-sl4th2pu1z
    @user-sl4th2pu1z Рік тому +1

    Comparing dog and fusion reactor lmao

  • @Thepeanutgallery666
    @Thepeanutgallery666 Рік тому

    New-clear. *left eye twitching...

  • @TheWorldBelow360
    @TheWorldBelow360 Рік тому

    And still no mention of a Rodin Coil…

  • @nunyabisnass1141
    @nunyabisnass1141 Рік тому +1

    Theres actually a lot of problems, and every single one prevents it from being viable. Im just going to mention a couple that i haven't seen in the comments. One is just the material integrity of the chamber. There arent a whole lot of materials out there that can withstand being bombarded with neutrons over an extended period of time, and the next is how to extract the energy. Its not exactly an easy thing to even think about, since any extraction method focusing on just capturimg or diverting electroms is probably going to destabalise the system in some way.

    • @handblitz4408
      @handblitz4408 Рік тому +1

      Having talked with a scientist from ITER the method of extracting energy is actually quite simple. The inner donut closest to the plasma is constantly cooled by water and the heated water drives turbines similar to a fission reactor.

    • @philheathslegalteam
      @philheathslegalteam Рік тому +1

      @Tom's Cubes you dont need a scientist to explain how transferring of heat works. Simply watching a kettle with cold water will suffice.

    • @olivierb9716
      @olivierb9716 Рік тому +1

      @Klaus Schwab the electons, with a lot energy, smash in the wall and create heat, this heat go on water (or other liquid) to run a turbine.

    • @olivierb9716
      @olivierb9716 Рік тому +1

      i made a mistake, i think it's neutron,not electrons, who are not interact with magnetic fields because neutre.

  • @tonybrowneyed8277
    @tonybrowneyed8277 Рік тому

    Hassabis & his team are doing so much for the future of humanity that prizes and statues will never be enough to thank them for it.

  • @ashters4204
    @ashters4204 Рік тому

    good vid

  • @rokguitarstar
    @rokguitarstar Рік тому

    You've got it all wrong, think about it, the sun is in a vacuum.

  • @jimmygravitt1048
    @jimmygravitt1048 Рік тому

    I'll bet there's no exaggeration and only solid facts in this vid...

  • @joethorn5015
    @joethorn5015 Рік тому

    "Solved" = slightly closer to reallity

  • @KingClovis
    @KingClovis Рік тому

    How do you "mathematically punish" a machine learning system? How does that work exactly?

    • @The_Savolainen
      @The_Savolainen Рік тому

      It could just be -1 for some arbitraty score

  • @spiritualforce2168
    @spiritualforce2168 Рік тому

    What about red hydrogen?

  • @davivify
    @davivify Рік тому

    Very interesting video. Though I don't get why the word "nuclear" is so hard to say. Basically nu + clear.