This is the complete opposite of Dyslexic friendly. I literally have to pause on each sentence. Read it, and then take a moment to actually look at the video because that's the whole point of it being a video.
I have been following this since it was rocks and dirt. I feel very fortunate to be alive while this comes to fruition. In my opinion, ITER will prove to be more important to humanity than the space race, which I grew up with. In absolute awe.
This should be a French only program, with similar projects in US, UK, Germany, China. We are wasting hundreds of billions in worthless solar/wind and meanwhile fusion only gets the scraps. International projects are extremely slow and wasteful.
The size and cost of this one is far too large for a single country to bear thats why its multinational. It also gains credibility having others invest in it. Otherwise they would be accused of wasting government money on a pipe dream that no other nation is working on. Don't be so pessimistic about it. This is also a rediculously complex machine and project, its expected to take forever to get going. Especially being the first of its size and kind
its taking shape! only one Question: how can the YT community help, wich political lobbyists to support, so you get more and faster of everything you need?
@@Conenion I honestly believe this is the most important project in history of mankind. If we don't get it up and running (or some other source of emissionless energy) the life on Earth and our civilization as we know them will be gone. And we don't have much time. Whatever money this project needs, they should get it.
@@Conenion Not really, it's at what 15 billion or thereabouts currently, divided between how many countries and years? Considering what it is and the scope and duration of the project that is very modest budget indeed.
@@Conenion Germant alone will ramp up their "defence" spending from 40billion to around 80billion in 5 years of time. This project is peanuts considering the participants (around 30 of the strongest economies of the whole planet).
@@Conenion The cost is not small but in comparison US have dumped trillions of dollars in Iraq. If we are to compare the benefits of the humanity of the both then.. well.
Probably better like that, or the whole project will get politicised. The less attention this project receives, the more they can get the job done quickly and without distractions!
The one thing I have to live long enough for is to see machines like this powering mankind. I hope we overcome all the stupid waste of resources and lives and energy we use to have conflict and war. We behave like cave men while there are people like you from everywhere around the globe building our future. Thank you.
Unfortunately you will need to live at least until 2050. Because ITER will not power anything. It's a purely scientific endeavour and the first production reactor will be DEMO, which is scheduled 30 years after ITER.
Many scientists...Hawking...Sagan...and of course...Albert E. himself would have loved to have seen this project...a shame they are no longer here...mankind's biggest achievement being constructed right before our eyes...a facility capable of generating an artificial star...wow...Carl Sagan said it perfectly in his 1980 'Cosmos' series...'these are some of the things that hydrogen atoms do...given 15 billion yrs of cosmic evolution...'
But ITER will be about making fusion finally *work* to achieve a net gain in energy, after so many years of experimental tokamaks. DEMO will be about finding *how much* energy can be generated.
@@anSealgair After net gain, then it has to made reproducable to other countries for futher study and development, then evolve from that into a commerically viable system. Hopefully it won't take 30 years after achieving sustained, reliable net gain running. Once we know its feasable, there will be a big push to roll it out, massive investment bigger than the push to get the first man on the moon.
This is one of the very few projects that if successful would be an immense disruption for the global energy industry. I am really optimistic and hopeful for this to be a success. That aside, this video is too fast paced with the text and imagery. Very distracting. Narration may help a lot.
You say that but the companies with the capital to take advantage of this, are the energy companies. And fusion based power is still yonks away. This is just an experiment to actually produce positive fusion power energy, and it has to do it at a high rate. Then when they actually prove the technology works (if it doesn't I imagine fusion will go back in the wardrobe for a few more decades) they will publish the plans to potential fusion energy suppliers so that they can build power plants based off of this project. So if everything goes as planned, we MIGHT see a fusion power plant by the late 2030's.
there are a lot of good projects, but this one is by far the biggest and most important, we need a lot of power in the future, because of the climate change (and for my english teacher:)
I would feel complete as a human if by 2050 the following happens : -Room TP superconductivity -Terminator level AI AND Robotics -Commercial Fusion Energy -Powerful Universal Quantum Computers -Brain Connectome mapped (individually). If even one of these things happen, humans will never be same again.
I was reading your comment and think... How did they spend on moon missions. 153 billion dolars a single country because of cold war and on ITER 20 billion. The people are not interested like in that decade
7 members including 34 countries joined hand in this (European Union, USA, China, Japan, India, South Korea, Russia). There is still hope for humanity.
Ich möchte gern das zehn Stück in Deutschland gebaut werden und dafür fünf Kohlekraftwerke abgeschaltet werden. Damit müssten wir jetzt anfangen dass wir zehn Jahre damit fertig sind. 👍
Das wäre toll, ist aber für Deutschland einerseits wirtschaftlich nicht stemmbar (über 15 Mrd.€ hat das Projekt schon verschlungen), andererseits ist ITER in keiner Weise für die Netzeinspeisung geeignet. ITER ist ein Experiment, welches immer nur maximal 1 Stunde laufen soll. Sobald Kernfusion aber ausreichend erforscht wurde und für die Netzeinspeisung bereit ist, kann man mit zehn Kraftwerken weit mehr als fünf Kohlekraftwerke (je Fusionswerk ca. ein AKW) ersetzen.
Selbst wenn die Bürger bereit sind eine Fusionsentwicklungssteuer zu zahlen, wird das nichts mehr in der ersten Hälfte dieses Jahrhunderts. Es gibt ja bereits einen Entwicklungsplan, welcher für das erste kommerzielle Fusionskraftwerk noch kein Datum vorsieht, nichtmal ein Jahrzehnt. Bei DEMO hofft man, dass man in den 50er Jahren den Betrieb aufnehmen kann. Wenn wir dann doch noch Rückschläge in Kauf nehmen müssen, wird das vielleicht erst im nächsten Jahrhundert was mit der Fusionsenergie. Solange sind wir dann wohl noch auf die Kohlekraftwerke angewiesen. Oder wir machen den gesetzlichen Blödsinn mit den Kernkraftwerken wieder rückgängig.
I have been following the ITER project for a very long time, I considered it important. Unfortunately, the time has passed from ITER long before it is completed, ITER and similar reactors have no chance of being proficient here on earth - but good for space flight out at Pluto or interstellar. They have started early :)
Great flyover, well edited (apart from text speed). It would be great if you could make a video with a layout of the whole site top down, showing where which buildings are and what happens there. Also how far each one is. Then maybe a cutout of the reactor with colour coded parts and show the build order and how/when parts get installed. All the best to your efforts :D
Revoyez aussi votre fournisseur de fond musical. N'importe qui peut faire un truc aussi moche, basé sur une progression d'accords standard, à l'aide d'une music workstation, fonction arpégiateur, quelques violons par ci par là, c'est torché en une demi-heure, aucun travail de composition. Il y avait plus de budget? Le problème pourtant n'est pas là, mais que c'est désagréable et ch**nt à en mourir à écouter pdt qu'on regarde ce sujet, au demeurant intéressant. D'autres vidéos d'ITER sont illustrées pareil. On en n'est plus à une question de goûts personnels, mais à des standards de qualité artistique. Il doit y avoir plein de compositeurs jeunes avec des tas de choses à dire, qui ont envie de vendre leur production, d'en vivre. Pourquoi pas leur donner leur chance ? Le fait d'être un scientifique veut dire qu'on sait pas apprécier la musique 🎶??
Captions too fast with jolly paced music ? Yep you know what to do people . Probably best to get away from the evolving violins to get the right rhythm for a steady incite . Also this will help the eyes , cant look at pics for captions cant look at captions coz they are too quick . Man you got alot of head tricks in this !! I almost want to shake your hand but i'd be too busy slapping you !!
I hope I get to see true fusion in my life that would be equal if not better than the moon landings. If us as the human race can work together and pull this monumental task off, I will be convinced there is nothing we cant accomplish if we work together. Then the next task should be antimatter and anti gravity.
Considering the critical nature of this project there didn't seem to be a lot of people working there. I hope the project stays on schedule and exceeds it's goals.
It's huge and slow... I hope compact sized Tolamak will succed because of cheaper and faster way to deploy future Fusion Power plants all over the world! Faster than ITER.
Innovation at the speed of government. Times international cooperation. And it doesn't generate electricity because... why? Someone might run the actual kwh numbers on it.
I'm excited that the project has already crossed the 50% completion point and also that I'm a witness to the birthing of a revolutionary facility, that open new doors in fusion energy applications and research.
Great. But it's still an EXPERIMENTAL reactor, not the real thing. As usual, usable fusion power is at least 20 years away and might well not be done in a tokamak. A lot of industry consortium members will be happy about the "industrial policy" money. I hope it's worth it.
We can see this, but both Google and Bing Maps has this complex (Cadarache FR) fuzzed out. Thought this was international. I'm hopeful, but think some form of molten salt fission reactor is the real energy of the future -and not in a "always will be" sort of way. Fusion was 30 years away in the 70's.
The area where this is built is a nuclear research facility, not just ITER. There's also nuclear waste treatment there. You don't want to make it too easy for people to plan where to crash their plane into.
Tohle je projekt z R.1950" Ruského fyzyka Lev Artsimovič.Jaké projekty mají Rusové asi tak dnes? This is a project from R.1950 "Russian physicist Lev Artsimovich. What projects do the Russians have about today? Это проект из Р.1950 "Российский физик Лев Арцимович". Какие проекты у россиян сегодня есть? Il s'agit d'un projet du physicien russe Lev Artsimovich, R.1950. Quels sont les projets des Russes aujourd'hui?
Nah, cooling hot water is reliable. They wouldnt want a whole other level of problems managing and maintaining generation kit, and having to coordinate tests with grid operations to avoid overloading the power network (which is very sensitive). Worst case, they plan a run to generate power, there is a fault that drops them off the grid, the grid frequency drops and current from other stations increases, the wires taking more current get hotter and resistance increases, the power getting out of the grid decreases so currents go up, and you’re into negative feedback (higher current, hotter wires, greater wire resistance, more losses, more current needed...) until the grid collapses (and as we are now all interconnected, that risks the whole of Europe going dark). Easier all round to have control of what they dump and when.
Flat Plainstone Elon would break because of the politics of this project. But in essence I agree, we need more projects working on fusion (not only iter) and we need more funding.
I really hope this gets somewhere, it is a shame that this is taking soo long. When I see my country (Germany) wasting 1 Trillion annually for "social" stuff I really wonder why projects like this on get so little budget...
Great! Now we just need to finish building it & start testing around 2035 to see if we can prove the concept, then scale it up & build a few hundred of them each one taking at least 20 years to build & then we'll have this climate change thing fixed! Or we can invest in solar, wind & battery storage right now.
Remember, buildings are not fusion reaction. That´s why Tokamak business is on. EU thinks megalomaniac. Put any billion into a site, which may not produce something in 30 to 50 years.
It's pretty stupid to me that they intend to make a fully functional fusion reactor but they do not intend to use it for power generation... So what after this is done we are going ti have to wait another thirty years for the real thing?!?
ITER is not a power plant, though. It's a research reactor with a stated goal of being able to sustain fusion for up to 1000 seconds continuously. This isn't compatible with running turbines for commercial electrical generation, nor is bursty, unpredictable schedules good for grid operation. And yeah, sure, fusion power plants are a very long term goal, but it says something optimistic that humanity is undertaking the endeavour. With a bunch of luck DEMO should be ready and demonstrating that it's possibly sometime around 2050.
@@rip256 Yea but if you are already a decade behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget you should just design it to be a real fully operational reactor. If not immediately then atleast capable of being converted easily. They claim they have the physics worked out for this. If they are so confident then they should have made a real reactor. At this rate they are probably going to be passed up by one of the much smaller commercial attempts.
@@neodark414 The first of anything is the most expensive and difficult. After this there will be a lot of companies worldwide with the skills and practise needed to build the components so the next reactor and the next will be less risky. Then there are all the fusion startup companies with smaller and cheaper designs - if they start succeeding then we might not even carry on with this entire approach but a research reactor is always going to be useful to test upgrades and new ideas before they go into the next commercial reactor.
It's a 20 year old design and there are some new and fresh ideas, but this one is a lot more mature than any of the new fancy laser stuff. And the polywell really isn't anything, but a concept.
There's already a giant fusion reactor running. It's called the SUN. I am extremely skeptical about this approach ever producing any net energy gain due to missing one important ingredient: Gravity
@Sahil Sahota You are talking to a person working in engineering and education about this subject for almost 30 years now. You could call it "Power-to-gas" instead but I refuse to use that name, if ever it must be "renewable-power-to-gas". Don't think your emotional assumptions even if they are from Fox "News" can replace science and research. Solar IS abundant: www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2016/09/22/we-could-power-the-entire-world-by-harnessing-solar-energy-from-1-of-the-sahara/
@Sahil Sahota If you only would have read the things I pointed to: Excess renewable energy can be converted into hydrogen, be definition, excess energy cost is zero. As it is difficult to store or transport it for it penetrates many (cheap) materials, we need to synthesize methane from it, this is called wind gas here. By storing the methane in exactly the same underground caverns existing (in Germany) today, we have 200 TWh storage capacity at out disposal. For sure methane can not be converted directly into electricity again but we can do it with co-generation (CHP) that generate heat at the same time - and we still need our homes heated for some time until everyone lives in a zero energy building (which is feasible and economic today for new houses). Right now, we are wasting fossil fuels for heating, in the future heating will be accomplished by using "wasted" heat from CHP engines but the system wind gas / CHP provides the seasonal storage we need. Now I even point you to the study in English about how 100% renewable for electricity AND heating can be accomplished, at least for Germany. Other countries have more sun and need less heat so it should be easier and the "cold" countries are even better off, financially. www.isi.fraunhofer.de/de/competence-center/energiepolitik-energiemaerkte/projekte/energy-saving-scenarios-2050.html
@@RobertLock1978 I can see your "research" from here. - Flat earth - Satellite are a lie - Perpetual motion for generate our own energy You are ridiculous.
ITER is a waste of money. The MIT ARC reactor is 1/10th the cost and it will actually generate useable electricity. They should have cancelled the project when REBCO superconductors became available.
This can too, when it was planned it was the only known road to fusion. Large scale plasma research will never hurt. Until we started actually generating net positive power with a reactor it is hard to call finishing one that does just that a waste. I don't think the jury is out on what will be the best reactor design going into the future. Doesn't mean we should hold off on building anything. Especially something as important as providing clean plentiful energy.
Work on ITER began before the high temperature superconductors used in ARC were certain to even exist so it was reasonable (if overly-conservative) to go ahead with ITER. Now construction is well underway and will give us more engineering information about larger reactors even if the smaller, higher field reactors are successful. But I do hope that ARC has lots of success so we can get to fusion even sooner.
