Answer this question for me: Where will the fusion reactor get the Tritium fuel from? It does not occur in nature

REALLY ???? MOST OF THE MASSES HAVE NOT DIGESTED THE BREAKTHROUGH ! THEY ARE TREATING AS BLAH ! BLAH BLAH IN THE SCIENTIFIC NERDS !

@@AndyLowe-netBreeding lithium

@@AndyLowe-net They said Deuterium, not Tritium.

@@mistercohaagen deuterium is easy. Tritium could be manufactured on earth from any old hydrogen. It’s hard to make but it would be worth it with the energy output we could get. Or: there’s also a ridiculous amount of it on the surface of the moon we could utilize. Again, not a cakewalk to get back to earth but it would be very worth it with the amount of energy we would get from a single trip

This is a win for rich people. They will control it and charge exorbitant fees to use it.

@@Cuban-Jo That's really cynical thinking. Also, fusion has nothing to do with oil companies. I get that our default response to this kinda news is to think the worst, but the fact that the scientific community is unified in their excitement about this breakthrough is a pretty encouraging thing, imo.

@@gman7497 I mean unless the governments of the world do a similar thing with energy that they did with countries having claims on Antarctica he is probably right, however we should be celebrating this and not worrying about that yet. Another day's problem. Let's just be happy we get another day now.

@@Spitfire_1940 it really depends on how much you trust your fellow man tbh. The possibility that we can end nearly all our energy problems in a matter of decades trumps any pessimism I have, personally. Something that big is beyond a corporate entities ability to control.

I truly understand and appreciate that view, it's just that I think we should have more of a realistic look on it so we can prevent any corporations from trying to take that power in the future. I mean if we did that when the automobile was originally built we might have built more electric cars. Electric cars were more abundant at first compared to gas cars but then the oil industry changed that. I'm not pessimistic, just cautiously optimistic.

Too bad he's a sell out and and actor.

Him and Neil Degrasse Tyson.

You’re lucky, you were almost too old to enjoy this coming future developments but you should be alive to see most of it as well

@@argenfargen elaborate please I'm lost

He's a Hollywood actor...an empty voice.

And horrified by being buried underground in a box.

Even if they share it i doubt other labs can make it happens. LLL is so ahead of laser technology that other can't copy it easily.

@@mmarco8787 ??

At least, they will start dropping oil prices to keep countries from investing in nuclear fusion.

Nuclear fission has worked pretty well for 50 years. A bird in the hand,....

You remind me of Manchinand the rest of the republicans they will not be happy about this.

Something people overlook is that the fossil fuel industry while largely built on the use of oil for fuel in heating and transportation, is also responsible for all of the other petroleum products like plastics, rubbers, lubricants, etc. Even without relying on fossil fuels as a fuel source, we will still be using them for other industries. This is till great don’t get me wrong, but ironically the electric vehicles and whatnot that we use still rely on plastics and rubber tires, etc. Major major step in the right direction but the next frontier in helping our environment after energy is the plastics issue particularly micro plastics.

Actually no. If the US doesn't do it then China or Russia will. A parallel would be arguing that the saddle/halter makers stopped the auto industry and that's why we're still riding horses to work. Gas engines are 40% efficient at best. Batteries are almost twice as efficient and getting better all the time. It will be an economic necessity for any industrialized nation to switch.

dont worry the dems will find a way to make sure we pay alot for it

Yeah in another 20 years fusion may be here

@Randy Watson Seems like it’s distracted you enough to comment on this post several times. The irony…

Theres no bright future for this planet or in humanity at least

@@lesliescottw go back to Breitbart, *troll*

Seriously. The anchor in white was incredibly irritating and rude

That's how science rolls: standing upon the shoulders of giants😉

This will go absolutely nowhere. The fusion dream will never be.

@@peterbelanger4094 If we let a dream go by it will never become true, but if we chase it there is always a chance.

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He was reading a cue card like Pedo Joe Biden does. That bowtie he wears doesn't turn a mechanical engineer to a scientist, sheep.

Cheap copy of Prof Proton

@cmorebutts7370 and less people like you

Bill Nye is not a scientist... He's a fraud

@Cmore Butts He is not a scientist, moron.

Hey where did your name come from? Sounds like something Klingon or so exciting. Just wondering.

Maybe...just maybe you will.

You won't, it's hogwash

Not just that, this is the beginning of fuel to fly at hyperspeeds on space and to reach our continuation planet . This gives us hope to our civilization.

This might be ready in 10 years...as Bill said in the 1920s 30s the atom process of fission was understood...2 decades later the US and other countries had nuclear plants...we are in 2022 ...we don't need 2 decades to make it work...maybe just one

Why? And why would the fossil fuel industry not be the ones profiting from it? Or do you think that you can build a fusion reactor in your backyard? Not to mention that when this technology becomes available in 30-40 years or more, there won't be too many fossil fuel companies left. What can indeed happen is that by the time it is ready for commercial utilization, we just won't have any more need of it

@@VFella No need of energy??...since when you want to change 4 billions of evolution when we have been always needing energy...you have to be very precise in why in 30-40 or a 100 years we won't need energy

@@javierderivero9299 probably means renewables and tweaks to nuclear fussion to make it even safer and more efficient

Could someone please be so kind to explain to me if negative (periodic) ELEMENTS exist and if they are regarded as dark matter or some other matter?

@@CyberTron30O0 Yes The quark family of particles consists of up, down, top, bottom, charm and strange particles, while leptons consist of the electron, electron neutrino, muon, muon neutrino, tau and tau neutrino particles. There are also antiparticles associated with each particle, the antiparticle being the mirror opposite of the corresponding particle which many consider as Antimatter - BUT none of that is considered to be dark matter, a substance theorized to hold mass but does not interact with nor can be detected by physical electromatic energy - which is everything from sound to light that humans can currently detect with our VERY limited senses or even math out with our current VERY limited understanding of math and dimensional equations. As far as I'm concerned Dark Matter is an immature theory (very little proof that isn't more than a mathematical misunderstanding of mass, gravity and unknown/undetected strong/weak dimensional forces) and just like the cosmological singularity (The Big Bang), Dark Matter will someday be proven wrong.

@sidd_z_chauhan do you mean Dark Matter the show? that one also goes into that in season 3 I think

@@CyberTron30O0 the elements on the periodic table are numbered by the amount of protons they have, a negative proton could be positive or negative charge and I guess negative mass, my thoughts have been that if negative mass exists, it would be far far away from anything that has gravity by now

Its huge but compared to the 40 ft tic tac object that david fravor chased and saw its peanuts.All the pilots said it had no sonic boom and should have had multiple.That means beyond any shadow of a doubt its generating its own fabric of space time at a fundamental level.Thats insane and paradigm shifting.The thing also vanished in front of him at a Blinding rate of speed.oh and popped up out of nowhere at all the pilots cap point.A rondavue spot hidden in the jets computers.Thats pshycotronic dissasembly.Its only theoretical tech but apparently that thing possesses it.

This "breakthrough" is completely over blown. If you actually looked into it, this is NOT even close to viable yet. Even the director of the experiment said so and it is unlikely this method will ever be good enough for net production of energy. 1) It requires Tritium which is extremely expensive and produced in traditional nuclear reactors. 2) There was about 2 joules of light energy in and 3 joules of energy out. However, the lasers and amplifiers are not 100% efficient. To produce that 2 jouls worth of light energy took orders of magnitude more energy in. So overall it wasn't even close to breaking unity This is not a simple problem to fix. 3) This experiment is very difficult to replicate. It takes an entire day to set up this experiment and 99% of the time it produces substantially less energy out than in. They got extremely lucky on this one experiment and have yet to recreate it. If we have a process where 9 times out of 10 it uses 2 joules and give nothing back then one time it gives 3 joules back, that is still a net loss. 4)This is a none continuous process. It produced a very small amount of energy for a split second then requires hours to reset. We can't have a power plant that runs in such a fashion. We need a continuous process of fusion and this test doesn't lend itself to that.

@@crissd8283 You’re clueless

@@john_mckinney So you have actually looked into the claim? What did I get wrong?

@@crissd8283 I’m not your physics teacher marking your test

@@john_mckinney You certainly are not my teacher, I was hoping you would have some insite as to why this method is viable? It sounds like you have nothing.

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26 years? Guessing you were a sports player. Sports have made people retarded literally and figuratively

Bill Nye is a clown, a fraud. Just a tv character used to spout propaganda to little kids. His input here shows how bs this all is.

@@peterbelanger4094 I think they ce/ns- ored your comment for some reason I can’t see it I can only see my own. It’s crazy because you didn’t even say anything explicit. Just an expressed opinion.

You know he's not a scientist right? .. he's really just an actor

wonder if race to fusion will be a thing

They've already got practical functioning designs, but big oil bought up the p@HJh$%^&979'';;' n o c a r r i e r

Big oil will delay and squeeze this for as long as is profitable.

@@seanbirkett4951 I agree......the US commission is already talking about 20 to 30 years for development.......but as soon as China or Russia duplicates the tech.....the race will be on. 🤔

@@seanbirkett4951 Will delay? They've been delaying this for decades by lobbying for politicians to underfund and propagandize against science. It's not like their game plan has changed with this discovery. They just need to keep doing what they've been doing. Bill Nye is absolutely demonized by the right wing and science education is in serious decline while flat earth and other such nonsense is gaining in popularity. The same people who say "drill baby drill". Willing stupidity is easy to tap into and may be even more vast than the oceans.

You ever watched "Speed Walker"? Bill has a degree in engineering not in science and worked as an engineer at Boeing prior to his acting career. This "breakthrough" is completely over blown. If you actually looked into it, this is NOT even close to viable yet. Even the director of the experiment said so and it is unlikely this method will ever be good enough for net production of energy. 1) It requires Tritium which is extremely expensive and produced in traditional nuclear reactors. 2) There was about 2 joules of light energy in and 3 joules of energy out. However, the lasers and amplifiers are not 100% efficient. To produce that 2 jouls worth of light energy took orders of magnitude more energy in. So overall it wasn't even close to breaking unity This is not a simple problem to fix. 3) This experiment is very difficult to replicate. It takes an entire day to set up this experiment and 99% of the time it produces substantially less energy out than in. They got extremely lucky on this one experiment and have yet to recreate it. If we have a process where 9 times out of 10 it uses 2 joules and give nothing back then one time it gives 3 joules back, that is still a net loss. 4)This is a none continuous process. It produced a very small amount of energy for a split second then requires hours to reset. We can't have a power plant that runs in such a fashion. We need a continuous process of fusion and this test doesn't lend itself to that.

​@@crissd8283 well yeah bill has military patents with the US. 1. There are many companies building fusion replication right now. Now that being said. The us military is looking to make a hybrid Abrams. Soooo But personally im pro thorium. Plentiful, far less reactive

@@crissd8283 engineering is a kind of science dumbass

Bill Nye is NOT a scientist, this is not a breakthrough, Bill will come out in a few days maybe to fix this and explain more that t means nothing really

🎯 playa

A actor playing a scientist

Just imagine this being used to run our space ships . The amount of planets we can explore

@@ricksan8726 go back to qanon

I hope so!!! We can save ourselves and this world.

It won't be I can bet money on it too, every year or two they have a so called "breakthrough" and we are still ages and ages away from commercial fusion

@@reecechadwick8504 I read your other comment, that it could take 20 years, and I agree. The thing is 20 years will pass quicker than you think. It might seem like a small step but at least it's in the right direction.

@@reecechadwick8504 You're completely missing the point of fusion energy. There is no money in it. In fact, it will decimate entire sectors of industry, and good riddance. This is a massive move away from Capitalism and toward a better future for humans.

@@MrLivewire1970 I understand what you mean mate and I agree, I'm just impatient now because if you think about it along with the average human lifespan 20 years is a long time and I would be almost 50 by then as I'm 25 now It just depresses me that I will be old by the time it ever comes and pretty much a decade or 2 away from death haha but maybe I'm being to morbid I just can't help it anymore after all these years of hype about it

People seem to think it's cool to suck at science. Nobody jokes about how they're crap at reading.

Couldn’t agree more

Hahaha man I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who noticed that! Bill was like I’m not laughing at those stupid jokes, this is some really important stuff that people need to know about! His face said it all lol

OMFG, how sickeningly annoying are they

They were trying to be the jokesters, but man, embrace Bill, embrace science, stay curious!

wow 1970...even i wasnt born then!

So what took them so long?

A bit optimistic. I'd give it more like 50-80.

@@eatshitlarrypage.3319 I would say a maximum of 30 IF they have non-stop research on nuclear fusion. Government should fund more of these instead of the military industrial complex.

@Bryan Smith And nuclear plants have solved zero of our energy woes, even though we could use it to power the entire world right now.

Only the construction and design can take ten years. And we've only just surpassed the net energy production. 10 years? No. 20? Unlikely but possible

Well I say 3 weeks. How bow da?

yep, wildly over rated, but his industry ALWAYS exaggerates progress, as there has been so little they need every little bit of good news that they can get.

The performance of the laser, it’s optimisation etc is not what the focus is of this big science project. I saw the Director of the site explaining that the focus is to create a system that allows fusion to be sustained. Once it is sustained sustainably… the focus can be placed on the supporting systems like the lasers etc. Once it is able to be sustained the input energy can be created by the system itself and the system/reaction can scale massively. Then we see some real, truly sustainable (in both senses of the word) energy being produced. To my mind: faster, faster, hurry up - please!!!

2 megajoules fed in, 3 megajoules taken out of the reaction - watch the official statement instead of CNN. Theres been tons of fusion reactors that do what you stated but they're all "25 years away" still - this one succeeded though, thats why its a breakthrough.

See Moore’s Law in Wikipedia.

@angellesl why? Moores law is not a universal "law" of nature. It just describes the rate of increase of IC performance. I think Gordon Moore looked at like 3 data points and extrapolated forward. It has nothing to do with fusion energy.

Math isn’t even close to making sense - this is a diversion away from free Zero Point which has been suppressed since Tesla “died” and intel agents stole his research. 🙏🏻⬆️🇺🇸

Um no. This "breakthrough" is completely over blown. If you actually looked into it, this is NOT even close to viable yet. Even the director of the experiment said so and it is unlikely this method will ever be good enough for net production of energy. 1) It requires Tritium which is extremely expensive and produced in traditional nuclear reactors. 2) There was about 2 joules of light energy in and 3 joules of energy out. However, the lasers and amplifiers are not 100% efficient. To produce that 2 jouls worth of light energy took orders of magnitude more energy in. So overall it wasn't even close to breaking unity This is not a simple problem to fix. 3) This experiment is very difficult to replicate. It takes an entire day to set up this experiment and 99% of the time it produces substantially less energy out than in. They got extremely lucky on this one experiment and have yet to recreate it. If we have a process where 9 times out of 10 it uses 2 joules and give nothing back then one time it gives 3 joules back, that is still a net loss. 4)This is a none continuous process. It produced a very small amount of energy for a split second then requires hours to reset. We can't have a power plant that runs in such a fashion. We need a continuous process of fusion and this test doesn't lend itself to that.

@@crissd8283 Going from trying to do something for decades to finally being able to do something, even on a small level is a breakthrough. Of course it's going to take another 30 years for it to be viable. Doesn’t mean the potential for the future isn't astronomical. It's a small step and obviously this isn't going to power a reactor, but the fact that it can be done and on any level to replicate is a big leap for us all.

he's an atheist, so your prayers to your imaginary friend can't help you

@@kotexconnection3804 Maybe it was just an expression? But yeah, I agree, the whole God thing is really just a scam meant to get people's money and control their minds. Religion is poison.

@@kotexconnection3804 ? Who tf asked you? Gtfo

@@kotexconnection3804 rude

You’all got bamboozled by the department of energy. 😂

You're dreaming dude!

Remember, he said IF.

@@ericbrendel5868 hahaha then you need to read a bit on the history of the energy industry. Everything always started as “you are dreaming”…

@@CAMacKenzie yeah he said IF…there definitely needs to be funding and this might be a fraudulent experiment. But most if everything is true then we will find a way.

What are you HR or Accounting?

Bill has never disappointed us but we have all disappointed Bill

@HappyDoggo True, we're supposed to have space stations already and Bill is still waiting for our next generation space ships... I'm starting to disappoint myself

His explanation wasn't good at all.

Agreed. Certainly someone to listen to! Thankfully, Drumph isn’t in the WH. He’d be asking Bill if he’d considered surrounding the atom with bleach and turning the UV lights on!

@@kalijasin I think he thinks he is still talking to children

Not trying to be a jerk, but it's just fusion, not infusion. Similar terms, but not quite the same.

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Instant coffee is a heart starter.

@@VaughanMcCue ok

With about enough power to turn on a kitchen stove for a bit. That's not really an achievement. Even discovering fission wasn't a major achievement it was when you could start the reaction with black powder was it really significant. As we could see in the major nuclear tests.

Thank the Chinese

the wheel

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@@VeganSemihCyprus33 No one cares! Quit spamming accounts with your unwanted click bait!

I just wish Bill had actually looked into this experiment before commenting so he could give us the truth. This "breakthrough" is completely over blown. If you actually looked into it, this is NOT even close to viable yet. 1) It requires Tritium which is extremely expensive and produced in traditional nuclear reactors. Can't just pull it out of the ocean. 2) There was about 2 joules of light energy in and 3 joules of energy out. However, the lasers and amplifiers are not 100% efficient. To produce that 2 jouls worth of light energy took orders of magnitude more energy in. So overall it wasn't even close to breaking unity This is not a simple problem to fix. 3) This experiment is very difficult to replicate. It takes an entire day to set up this experiment and 99% of the time it produces substantially less energy out than in. They got extremely lucky on this one experiment and have yet to recreate it. If we have a process where 9 times out of 10 it uses 2 joules and give nothing back then one time it gives 3 joules back, that is still a net loss. 4)This is a none continuous process. It produced a very small amount of energy for a split second then requires hours to reset. We can't have a power plant that runs in such a fashion. We need a continuous process of fusion and this test doesn't lend itself to that.

Yeah. Carl Sagan too. 💛

My son is a scientist today because of Nye❤️

@Angelo Balbi - This is for the future generations. You can relax. The residual products from oil that are nearly as detrimental for the environment will still be with us till we are in the ground. There are however, bio degradable alternatives also on the rise for those as well. Capitalism will continue to evolve where demand calls. There are no Communist Coming to take your products away from you.

@Angelo Balbi what are you a shill account for the gas industry? You a petrol engineer? Sorry that one day your gonna be out of a job. Actually no no Im not.

mine was from braniac science abuse :D

@@mrw730 You're a 🤡

@@mrw730 He's an aerospace engineer with more degrees than you have. I'd say he's qualified to speak on matters of science and engineering.

@@mrw730 Do you have evidence that he's not an aerospace engineer? And you can't scare or insult me by calling me a word you don't understand.

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Except he never was or is a scientist! 😂🤡

@@sevenravens Do you even know what a scientist is? lol clown

He's a celebrity with a Bacehlors degree lol

@@sevenravens You sure? Engineers are pretty much scientists. We apply scientific research to our work, test through experimentation and boom. You’ve got a good product. Take it from someone who’s learning just that. Bill worked at Boeing before turning into the Science Guy. He worked a part of the 747-400’s wing hydraulics.

@@sevenravens he said SCIENCE GUY, not scientist. People seriously can’t get this through their thick skulls

Sure, we can put all of our efforts into nuclear fusion, but ask yourself... at what cost? We've seen a strong decline in the development of popcorn fork technology.

@@firstnamelastname9179 😂😂😂

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@@VeganSemihCyprus33 no

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how would you like it if the city put a row of mailboxes in your front yard?

great explanation

@@kalidilerious Whoaaahhhhh, Nelly, - need Wayyyyy more Context: "The City" or USPS? Was this part of some sort of City road project? New development (private)? The State (if you live on a State route, it would be a State project, not City)? Or just appeared out of nowhere & you don't have any idea whose initiative it was? I used to get these sorts of calls all the time - because my phone number was listed as the Project Manager on the public involvement literature / webpage. Ex: A mile up the road from one of our projects (which was entirely Proposed, not a spoonful of dirt had been moved, mind you), some Delightful little old lady "You Whippersnappers killed my rose bushes! I Demand Compensation! & New Rosebushes!" Me = "Whoooaaaahhhh, Nelly - I need to know who / what / when / how / why - before I forward your complaint to the proper officials, which is decidedly NOT ME, but I am willing to GO THE EXTRA INCH to try & help . . . "

@@kalidilerious Or you could just go all "Close Encounters" on them lmfao

@@sideshowbob yeah the context is there's a row of mailboxes in the front yard. It's not like if was USPS, "oh USPS that makes it fine"-- there's still a row of mailboxes in the front yard. Living on a state highway route -- There's still mailboxes in the front yard. New private development? hang on let me check. (yeup, the mailboxes are still there) The city called me and told me that's where they're being moved to.

Really hope Ock doesnt blow up the city.

@@four-en-tee that too

This is a breakthrough beyond your father's dreams

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hate to say it though, he was rather scattered and rambling in his explanation. It took the other guy to dumb it down for the masses better.

Think about how low-key he typically is vs his level of intensity in this interview. That should be a bellwether for how significant he thinks this is.

We're still gonna pay an inordinate amount for energy in the future. Your farts could make energy, and some schmuck in a suit, and tie is STILL gonna bill you 300 a month, or shut your asshole off. It will never change. We could have free energy forever, and there would STILL be people whom can't have access unless they pay up. Effing sick of it.

Yes he’s an advocate! An advocate against nuclear fission power, which we desperately need, while he purposefully overlooks the ecological damage of massive solar farms and the toxic materials that need to be mined to create them. Oh yes, let’s not forget for the last 10 years he pushed the pipe dream that Wind and Solar was all society needs, when it has been an unstable source of energy without sufficient energy storage technology, which also requires toxic materials to generate( that won’t exist for another 20 years min). So basically Europe and the USA will be burning away fossil fuels for the next 50 years while it takes Fusion, at least another 3-4 decades to get functional, (not 10 years.).

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I think it would be better to own a set of solar panels and a couple of batteries that last 40 years that I buy once and never have to pay another bill again. That's not gonna happen if you hook up to one of these fancy plasma reactors. You could pay through the nose for all those lasers.

@@davefaulkner6302 well maybe one day, in the distant future, the tech will exist to build solar panels that don’t steadily lose their efficiency along with batteries that are not environmentally destructive to produce and don’t need to be replaced every few years. Oh and the cost of those lasers will be divided among the hundreds of thousands of people who get their electricity from a reactor.

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That's what I'm curious about as well and looking forward to the announcement. Hoping they took into account the "apparatus" you are referring to when calculating net energy output

@@AMZilla642 No, they didn't. It's still hopeless.

@@AMZilla642 From The National Ignition Facility website... They achieved fusion ignition... Not sure how that hasnt happened before but apparently that is the term they use for breakeven energy. The small print reveals that they are only considering laser energy in 2.05MJ and fusion energy out 3.15MJ. Given efficiency (ahem) of lasers and fusion energy to electrical energy, this ain't so much, certainly not as good as JET achieved earlier this year.

Thank you. The laser approach has so many incredibly difficult problems, and I don't think it was ever intended to be a model for a real commercial power plant anyway. This was a fun breakthru and good excuse to break out the champagne & cake. But check back in 10-20 years, let's see if anyone even remembers this.

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Bill Nye the science guy, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill,

@@joebanks3698lobbying is a very real thing

@@joebanks3698 It's a C-O-N Spriacy. ✌🏾✌🏾

@@joebanks3698 It’s not a conspiracy, there’s *lots* of evidence that non-renewable energy companies have and currently do sabotage sustainable/alternative energy development. The amount of fearmongering they put resources into to scare the public from nuclear is fucking nuts.

@@Michael.Miles1 The U.S. took credit for a discovery that was already made years ago by scientists in other countries.

@@kalijasin Source?

50 years ago fusion research was in full swing and practical results seemed 20 years away. There are many unsolved problems left now and we are 20 years away from practical reactors.

I was gonna say I bet 50-100 years ago there were plenty of people who would realize exactly how incredible that is! 😄

@@emerynoel567 ok let’s say 200 years then 👀😅

The point being made is still valid. Imagine telling the Wright brothers as they were taking off that in a little over 60 years later, we would be launching a rocket out of Earth's atmosphere and landing human beings on the moon. Even they would have probably looked at you like you were crazy.

@@nathan3084 ah you got you me 👍

What I read was they used 300MJ to power 200 lasers that delivered 2MJ pulse and release a 3MJ of heat via fusion, so a factor of 100 more power in than out. This enough to heat a kettle and they can do it once a day. So the challenge is to scale up the energy produced/reduce energy required by more than a factor of 100. And instead of once a day with a target capsule that cost on the order of $100, they have to do it 10 times a second with target capsule that cost a few pennies. This is a step forward, but hardly a breakthrough.

@@davesutherland1864 Thank you for your reality check. I'm waiting to hear how (if) this will scale up to commercial production of energy.

@@Dimsum256 since you can power a 1MW laser in your home without a powerplant… Yes. The optical output of a laser can be significantly higher then the electrical input through pulsing the output. Basicly, you input 1W for 10 seconds, then release a 10W pulse once every 10 seconds. Thas the basic principle, yt has several creators like styropyro to demonstrate how it actually works.

@@christophedlauer1443 watt is not a unit of energy

...which was predicted by the Val Kilmer teen comedy "Real Genius" in 1985 where they made a house explode with popcorn after laser breakthroughs occurred, bypassing fusion altogether and producing popcorn with our imagination alone and terrible special effects

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Sorry. Can someone tell me the banana story?😄

The acronym BANANA has been around for a while now. I'm sure you will fight against building anything new because you don't want your city to change. To be honest, this "breakthrough" is completely over blown. If you actually looked into it, this is NOT even close to viable yet. Even the director of the experiment said so and it is unlikely this method will ever be good enough for net production of energy. 1) It requires Tritium which is extremely expensive and produced in traditional nuclear reactors. 2) There was about 2 joules of light energy in and 3 joules of energy out. However, the lasers and amplifiers are not 100% efficient. To produce that 2 jouls worth of light energy took orders of magnitude more energy in. So overall it wasn't even close to breaking unity This is not a simple problem to fix. 3) This experiment is very difficult to replicate. It takes an entire day to set up this experiment and 99% of the time it produces substantially less energy out than in. They got extremely lucky on this one experiment and have yet to recreate it. If we have a process where 9 times out of 10 it uses 2 joules and give nothing back then one time it gives 3 joules back, that is still a net loss. 4)This is a none continuous process. It produced a very small amount of energy for a split second then requires hours to reset. We can't have a power plant that runs in such a fashion. We need a continuous process of fusion and this test doesn't lend itself to that.

This is a completely different method from the usual Tokamak method so we should see!

Pitfalls of an energy source that can power us throughout the galaxy and others until the last star turns into a blackhole, dwarf star, or blows its stellar load everywhere. So trillions of years.

So the energy production occurred in the amount of time it takes light to travel 1 inch. How is that converted to usable energy? I don't get it. That's an absurdly short timeframe. Did the energy *generation* take that long?

@@religionisapoison2413 Where do you think the energy goes? /gen energy isn't created or destroyed so it's just the period where we're taking the energy from the mass of hydrogen nuclei and converting them into helium atoms + extra stuff which is mostly useful energy we can use to do work (plus like a neutrino or two).

@@religionisapoison2413 It's about the ratio of input to output- now that we're getting more out than we've put in, and we've got a vast supply of input, it's just a matter of working out the scaling. We've now gotten a ball that's been static for years to finally begin its roll. This will take time, as the Bills mentioned.

I'm not a fan of CNN but I'm happy we can all agree on a scientific breakthrough that will change our future families for the better well. I'm smiling ear to ear.

@@religionisapoison2413 The energy generation is VERY short, but then the heatwaves spread. Each pulse is short, but then you pulse it thousands of times a minute. Each time making a short fusion. Pulsed. Now, how many times you can do it, and every time how strong the pulse can be, depends on the kind the power plant is built and operated. Hopefully we can optimize it to a small size and much output with many pulses.

It is. The true holy grail.

Who we've been hearing from is fossil and nuke corporations and the media they own, telling us how they weren't ever going to invest in something that would make them obsolete. They're why we can't have nice things. .... Like fusion. ☮️😊

For the last five or ten years I haven't heard anyone saying it's DOA. In fact there's at least three other approaches all supposedly closing in on break even. That's not even counting the more speculative fringy things like lattice confinement that may or may not work. These are all subscale test devices. Some are highly scale dependant with ITER iirc being limited by it's size not just in how much absolute power it puts out but also it's ratio of input to output. As in as soon as they hit breakeven with that approach literally all they need to do is scale that tweaked design up to get a commercially viable output of billions of watts over break even. No point going that big until they hit breakeven but once they do it's a much more straightforward issue of scaling up to commercial viability meaning from then it's mostly a matter of getting the funding and just building the thing... This is still maybe a decade from lighting houses but not more.

It's still dead in the water. Molten Salt Reactors are the future of Nuclear power.

@@johnassal5838 I don't even know what yer arguing. If it's true that they got more energy out than what they put in, this is a scientific breakthrough.

Yeah it was incredibly rude all for a wry, unfunny joke. I wish they would have shown him more respect.

Those women are the GLITZ not the real news people behind the scenes that bring you the whole show.

Well to be fair they aren't scientists, they probably understood virtually none of it.

They are the ones who funded this project and will be solely owners of the patented rights.

@@jeanious2009 remember folks... the fossil fuel industry is global. Depending on who you are in the industry will determine the direction. Mean while we need to develop solar wind and hydro energy alternatives as they create local sustainable energy and jobs.

We would die without fossil fuel. Only stupid liberals think people won't freeze to death without it.

The NIF has exactly fuck all to do with generating power, the damn thing is a nuclear weapon simulator for the DoE/DoD clowns.

@@shlepmessing8703 sure, short sighted, small minded, now vision you poor little minion.