Yes, I was skeptical about the Giant Leap ones too but they actually were quite informative and not dismissing Elon. I would love to see a much more detailed update series on fusion too. Please! :) There is so little information that I can find on the newest projects. And leave the technical stuff inside. The internet is full of space nerds now. The time of the need for child like explanations in youtube documentaries is over.
Elon Musk should give this a shot. He could probably reduce the bureaucracy, and do it faster. You all may really like a video I'm releasing on Halloween, "the actual, physical, reason why time slows at the speed of light". Bookmark me for tomorrow!
Politicians are stupid they spend hundreds of billions of dollars to kill people instead using that money to help humanity's problem I hope the next generation of politicians doesn't be as stupid as the previous generations
I was just triggered when they compared it to Beijing Olympic Games, especially during the tensions between US and China. I think the producer deliberately brought that up, otherwise I don’t think a nuclear physicist would think about that kind of information
The US military helps maintain global stability (usually), the Olympic Games are.... well games, nothing would change if you did away with them and used that money for scientific research.
"Fusion is clean, it's green, it's safe." The same thing can be said for nuclear fission. Smaller and safer Gen 3 nuclear reactors should be being built now in the interim. Nuclear energy is currently our best solution to global warming while we wait for a breakthrough in nuclear fusion.
The general public has always been extremely uneducated. Right now you mention nuclear energy and people automatically say that they don't support it. It's always been like that and always will be unless governments put serious effort into education and scientific research.
The public shouldnt have a fucking say in nuclear plants being built. Make them somewhere where it isnt bothering anyone and then you can demolish a couple toxic carbon deathtraps.
It really is depressing. I'm not even a physicist but I'm still part of STEM. We could live in such a futuristic and better society if only governments would get their priorities straight. I will die without seeing things that we could've built before I was born. Things that would push our society like 50 years into the future. It's very depressing when I think about it.
@@zualapips1638 So you believe socialists invent instead of copy? How can they invent anything when all the inventors have to be hand picked by government bureaucrats? Capitalism picks the best based on merit. Socialist just picks the most corrupt. 95% of innovation comes from the private sector. The proof is the inventors on the patents.
"I know bottling the stars is going to be hard..." what a beautiful and powerful way to explain it fusion is so exciting and extraordinary, I'm sure the awe aspect will draw more and more curious, deep-pocketed folk
Amazing, this technology would be so beneficial to the world! I wish the various teams working on fusion all the best and hope that they can achieve their goals in the near future! It is so inspiring to see such dedicated and passionate scientists and engineers working on such an important and world-changing technology! Humanity is on the verge of great things. The future is now!
Awesome introduction! Thanks for sharing on RU-vid. Public awareness is also the key to accelerate fusion. The more vocal the public is about desiring fusion power plants, the more investors and governments may take action.
THANK YOU!! We need more of these videos to be published, to impact and feed the population with information regarding OUR FUTURE and OUR SON's FUTURE. And to pressure governments to found these type of initiatives that pave the way to a different kind of civilization.
Cutting military spending in half for 10 years could pay to fully industrialize the Moon and create an orbital ring from that lunar industry to allow thousands of people to travel to space every day.
Politicians and governments will play a lot of back and forth with Nuclear Fusion until the impacts of diminishing supply of crude oil and petroleum are felt on a global scale. I hope leaders of the future will see the utility and harness its full potential.
Geothermal energy is about as needed as this and I think research wise we are as close to it if not closer as this energy type or any other but I guess the question is how will it replace all energy types?
This reminds of a professor I had back in school, Dr. Octavius. He was a bit unhinged. He thought he had the answer to all the worlds energy needs. But he also hated Spiderman. With a passion. So Spiderman framed him for a bunch of crimes and ultimately killed him. So I guess this might be the next big idea.
I take it these private companies are funding these mini-documentaries in order to publicize their work and get funding. Bloomberg gets to put out interesting videos and we get fun educational content. The only worrying part is that there could be other topics out there that don't have sufficient funding to get public attention.
Just to put all this in stark context: Religion annually contributes about $1.2 trillion dollars of socio-economic value to the United States economy, according to a 2016 study by the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation. Individuals contribute over 80B to religious causes every single year. Humanity has spent a mere infinitesimal fraction of that working on fusion energy over all these decades. I pray to gods that they leave us alone and let us get to where we need to go.
Hey....all comments and replies coming from such intelligent people...nice reads... ofcourse excellent document...i think solution is being hindered by big energy corporates and bad governments... hope their conscience clears up... keeping fingers crossed..
So, say I am a corporation and/or national economy which relies heavily, perhaps totally, on the continued production and use of traditional energy sources; e.g., coal, oil, natural gas. Am I sitting idly while my very continued existence is being threatened by the prospect of clean, limitless, inexpensive energy is being developed? Nefarious forces are in play and have been for decades. The sudden introduction of fusion energy will cause massive social and economic shockwaves second only to the impact of the sudden introduction of AI.
Fusion: the ultimate alternative energy of them all. No significant drawbacks besides the cost of researching it. As I just graduated in physics, a job in this area would be nice... Looking for a job in: Research on lowering the cost of battery Research on lowering the cost of solar and wind Research on hydrogen electrolysis and lowering its cost Research on hydrogen fuel cells for a combined energy storage system Research on better nuclear reactor Research on nuclear waste Research on minimizing emissions and maximizing efficiency of conventional fossil power Research on other kinds of power: biofuel, geothermal, tidal and wave, and so on. Research on nuclear fusion Research on ocean water desalination
Following this since a kid but renewable energy has become more exciting for me due to rate of innovation. In 30 years, Solar/wind/etc would have been so cheap that Nuclear energy would be reserved to a few areas/uses in the world.
Great documentary. Keep it up. I bet the costs of ITER have increased due to politics and bureaucracy. If 1 country was making it, costs would be substantially lower.
If they're not putting money into it (government or investors) they don't want it or they don't want it until a certain time. They don't want their present revenue stream to dry up before they figure out how to corner the market on this new product /service. They don't want competition.
This is a bitter truth of mankind that we spend more on fictions and leisures than the actual science. It can be easily seen in schools where they will have latest equipments in sports and dance labs but the science labs lack modern technology and instruments. We produce scientific movies in billions of dollars but when we have to invest in the actual science portraited in the movie we step back. (In the world of capitalism and economics science has actually taken a backseat.We only want science that can make money but not which helps mankind )
Wow. What a fantastic video. Very educational. I'm a bit of a techy but I would have loved a glimpse into what they are doing differently vs. traditional approaches. Regardless, 10/10
It would be hilarious is a company like Exxon Mobile just said screw it and put $100 billion in, achieved it, patented it and became the monopoly they were in the passed 100 years..."sure, you can have fusion energy, but it'll cost ya"...XD
There is a very, very small group of people in this world that have a “need to know” about Alien technology. Imagine if they could share their knowledge how far along we would be.
Fission - splitting the atom Fusion energy 1kg would generate as much power as 10,000 kg of coal Sun is fed by fusion Merging atoms together Hydrogen abundance in the universe
We already have a safe, and from what it sounds like, cheaper energy source. Solar energy. All this talk about the government and private companies investing millions and billions into Nuclear seems to me like one of the main reasons the focus isn't on solar is because there isn't as much money to be made by the government. Solar doesn't produce radioactive waste, and I'm not going to have to worry about human error, infrastructure failure or some natural disaster that will cause a nuclear meltdown. Besides - after 50 years of experimenting with Nuclear energy, we still haven't gotten it perfect. Solar energy has been perfected - and it's something we can safely implement now and not wait until the 2030's.
Fueled Up Rooster solar is a dreadful technology in my opinion. Rarely produces more energy than it takes to build, big storage issues, produces massive amounts of toxic chemicals in construction, abiotic depletion of rare elements, only usable in certain areas, low efficiency etc.
the thing to take away here is that budget priorities are not in humankinds best interest. Its always in political interest. I just hope the new young voters are awake and not afraid of nuclear.
For those blabbering about "Fusion is always 30 years away" check out a graph showing dependency between amount of funding and expected delivery date. We are at a rate of 'never' since 70's. If nasa got the same budget in 60's we'd still wouldnt have been to the moon external-preview.redd.it/LkKBNe1NW51Wh-8nLSTRdQtTha2sV1yY46vhUWcu_6g.png?auto=webp&s=1f89a143a488f2e4b5306a25a87e21282332e2ef
Interesting video, which I enjoyed, but some very sloppy script in the narration. A plasma is not "molten". A plasma does not contain ions. A plasma is so highly energised that all of the electrons have been stripped off their atomic nuclei, leaving only completely disassociated nuclei and electrons moving around at great speed. If the fuel is hydrogen, then the atomic nucleus is a single proton, but if a more exotic fuel is used, such as Helium-3, then the nucleus will comprise of 2 protons and one neutron.
Epic jumps in technology requires the convergence of multiple technologies. Achieving fusion will happen once quantum computing and AI make the necessary advancements.
Imagine if all the excess wealth of civilization was being put into the research and development of science, technology and medicine. Humanity could reach so far...
" in the future there will be many type's of fusion energy all with the basic understanding of magnetism ,proton neutron configuration......" I got one form ready to go, I convert safely radiation into energy nonstop ... I have a collector for both energy and spent decay...." just trying to find real people that care??? That's the tough one.
US Navy just released a novel Patent for a FUSION nuclear plant, October 2019, same time as this doc. that is not a tokamac, and is just one meter cubed. it is not 30 years away anymore
6:00 "...Just for comparison, one country can afford to run a big sporting event but they don't want to fund a project that could solve the World's energy problems". Well, if they don't want to fund Thorium reactor research which is much, much cheaper than fusion, with demonstrable results, why would they want to fund fusion research?
the countries mentioned, china and japan, are both part of ITER, they are literally " fund(ing) a project that could solve the World's energy problems". not to mention both have national fusion programs in addition to ITER. so the lady is literally lying to your face when she said they dont want to fund...
SSSoo, what would the fusion thing do eventually, make electricity? The electrical grids are already overloaded and in dismal state of repair. What would we do with even more electricity? The lines will just melt and start fires (See California Current situation). Just Maybe a few more natural gas pipelines to the residential areas would help take some of the load off the electrical Grid. Just Sayin'.
As someone who lives in California the wires arent fucking melting and causing fires, It's the very high wind events that seriously increased the danger of fires. In response to the winds they shut off the power to prevent any debris like tree branches and such from falling on them and causing sparks or fires.
Great analogue with Wright brothers - they were mechanics who knew nothing of the technology. My guess is that fusion will not be achieved by the people who research fusion reactors but people who research sun mechanisms.
I read that the radioactivity of a continual fusion process would hopelessly irradiate the machine and everything around it in a very short time. It makes a lot of sense if you think about it. I mean are they going to build an ozone layer around it?
No, they explain why in the video. That's why we need upwards of 150million degrees celcius whereas the sun needs 10-25million. The sun has gravity to help the atoms get closer together and collide. We don't have that luxury on earth, hence the higher temperatures.
