Looking forward to this - lectures and technically minded videos are very, very welcome! we may not yet be a culture of scientists but at least we're a culture of budding scientists :)
The complexity and cost of maintaining vital vacuum conditions at the surface of the earth beg the question of the benefits of fusion plants in space. It seems that 90% of the vacuum apparatus could be eliminated, as well as cryo cooling for the SC magnets and conductors. Such systems should be substantially less massive, complex and costly than ones designed for terrestrial conditions. The primary technological limiting factor in exploiting and inhabiting space is access to energy, preferably lots and lots of energy.
So which process did you finaly use to adher the charcoal to the panels? Which turbo pumps and are you using and where are they attached? Also using a gate valve to exchange them during oepration? With magnetic bearings? Can you share some pictures of the roughing pumps used? Type and size would also be interesting.
I really appreciate the time you spend preparing these videos. I’m just a normal engineer following out of pure curiosity. I do watch several physics and tech programs on RU-vid, and I would like to convey the following points, they are only ment as constructive criticism - you should use a good presenter(s). I know it’s an international effort, but there exists many great young people out there, like science journalists or just people coming thru the screen as captivating, no matter the content. I watch PBS spacetime, Veritasium, physics girl, cool worlds, smarter every day, etc. their success lies mostly in the presenter. - You need to be better at both the layout of the presentation and the use of graphics . The info is mostly conveyed via PowerPoints. It all seems a bit 2010ish. - The sound quality is overall quite terrible and it varies. - I think you could run this show weekly, there should be ton of topics that would be of common interest. Hope you take it in to consideration, love following the project.
Please Iter, produce higher quality videos. Please. You have what is probably the most interesting science project going on in the world right now but you manage to put out videos that have appalling production quality. The content here was great the delivery was a mess. Why was the speaker orange and fuzzy? Why was the speech volume mixed so low? Why was the first demonstration video in a little box at the top left while there was an annoying animation in a loop? Why, after four videos, has no one noticed that left and right are flipped (e.g. when the speaker says the left graph they mean the right)? You have the chance here to inspire the next generation of scientists but instead the project comes across as unprofessional. Iter could be the moon shot project of our time if the media was handled well.
Please iter, stop doing what you do! Please, wake up! Stop it! This is madness controled by pure ego, it went way too far. What are you pursuing ? Here, I corrected it for ya. you are welcome.
I agree. Somewhere in that billions of funding should be 50€ to buy a decent microphone. ITER is an international effort and those paying the taxes for it and do not have English as their first language are in the majority. I'm not complaining that this video is in English. But it should be at least in a quality one can understand easily. Also, the demonstration videos a such a low quality, they look like there were made in the seventies. You can do better.
Im fairly confident that the videos serve as internal communication for the project as opposed to entertainment for the larger world.@@HyennaTheOne @thomasgunther
Before watching: 1) what do you think about ARC fusion reactor? 2) Is the funding of the project sufficent? Could ITER finish faster if governments had allocated more funds from the start?
That's a good question. I could be asking the same thing about the General Fusion reactor built and under testing in Vancouver Canada. Unfortunately, I do not see any project as being a clear winner but they must all be tried out to their fullest before anyone can draw any conclusions. In the meantime, Canada does contribute all the tritium fuel, and tritium handling technology for the ITER
Thanks! Now I understand how ITER team intended to pump out helium. Before it was not clear for me, because I know that standard cryopump can not pump out helium.
The speaking person gives impression of reading all that information from section that the video does not show. He refers to pictures but he does not point to any of single picture from few showed so you do not have clear information about which picture he talks about. His feet appear above the floor comparing to location of a big picture ( something like wrong set up virtual reality presentation). Interesting topic in very bed created video.
I second Wobblycock's comment below: Please, Iter, make better videos. There's nothing wrong with the technology, with the science, but the talk should be done by a professional presenter, not by a professional scientist (I happen to be one, so I have no problem following the talk and everything that is said is correct AFAIK). But, the point of this series of talks is (or, rather, should be) to fill in the world's taxpayers and their political representatives how the money is spent, that it makes sense to spend it on Iter (I don't think that any practical fusion power will come out if it, but many disagree with me: in any case, the cooperation between all the countries in the world on a single energy project is a useful exercise IMHO). Some parts of the talks are, of course, fine: I just saw the section on ion beam heating pass by, which was fine. But, much of it is pretty boring IMHO. So, please, get yourself a good communication team to communicate with the public: scientists are rarely good at that.
@@djdrake1163 Think someone got up to 80 or 85% of the energy put in but dont quote me. The goal is to have more than that. 1.5x at least. Then eventually 5x 10x and so on. This is an experimental unit designed way back before i was born probably. Theyre obviously adapting the design with new discoveries but i dont expect a net positive commercial fusion for at least another 20 years.
