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In this episode we take a look at the good the bad and the ugly of fusion energy. Is it as promised? And if not, what are the major issues?

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43 thoughts on “Fusion Energy: Hype or The Future?

  1. A couple of corrections:
    At 3:13 I said the processes the wrong way round. The FISSION part is only there to aid the FUSION part. And ICF is Inertial Confinement Fusion not Internal. Sorry about that.

  2. This video spent a little too long on the celebration, where in the grand scheme of things — towards a fusion reactor — this does not look like a big leap: reaching plasma break-even required marginal progress over previous achievements compared to the progress needed to achieving reactor break-even. And then this happened at a research facility whose design is in no way whatsoever on a trajectory to a reactor design.

  3. The beauty of human scientific endeavor is how serendipitous it is; we may never achieve thermodynamically favorable nuclear fusion, but what we learn and discover along they way is never wasted.

  4. I disagree with the first sentence of this video "energy is the most valuable resource…". Intelligence is obviously more valuable.

  5. Helion's pulsed compression seems interesting, but there was nothing in the explanation about how it is able to convert the generated energy into electricity.

    Edit: nevermind, the "Real Engineering" video explains that the plasma expands against the magnetic field which distortion in turn drives currents in copper coils around the chamber. My question is, however, what about all that energy carried by high velocity neutrons? A hybrid approach seems ideal, capturing the energy carried by both charged and neutral particles.

  6. The fact that the overall energy required for everything involved in producing a single ignition still exceeds the energy generated made this story a bit of a yawn to me when I saw it.

    Commercial fusion remains 20 years away just as it has for the past 70 years.

  7. The future, duh. Either we get fusion going or we don’t. If we don’t than we go back centuries and rely on solar energy. Which is fusion done by Mother Nature

  8. The first computer was 5,000 instructions per second. While a high end CPU these days go beyond 125,000,000,000 billion instructions per second. If we can get sand to think, we can figure out how to smash some specially selected atoms together. Fusion is possible, but it requires time and investment.

  9. I don't get the hype about ignition in the National Ignition Facility. In my opinion their technology is the furthest away from economical fusion in all the important aspects except ignition itself. So great, they are a few steps ahead in ignition and miles behind everywhere else. If I had to bet on what fusion technology would have the highest chance of sucess, I would surely NOT bet on them…

  10. Doesn't matter if you crack fusion and then build it tomorrow you can't do it cheaply the process is way too complex ever be made cost-efficient compared to solar or wind on Earth however would be great for travelling space. It's like hydrogen fuel cells I don't mind if idiots spend billions chasing a Golden Goose cuz in the end it'll benefit all of us

  11. The only problem is that gravity and temperature don't cause fusion in the sun. It's too cold out there and the reason why fission happens is because of quantum tunneling, probability, and scale. There is no place inside the sun where fusion happens because of temperature and gravity alone.

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