Energy Source of the Future: Generating Fusion Power | FD Engineering

[@catherinepoloynis]

Thank you so much for this wonderful, educational documentary about such an important project!

[@jaythehulkmoeller6648]

Humanity could really use a win like this. I hope we make a breakthrough that will change the world for the better.

[@johnmabbott7420]

Yes indeed !! But whom is paying for all this ????

[@3cosmo]

Captain Picard with a story about fusion, let's goo!

[@antonnym214]

Tokamak will prove to be a dead end, but the Stellarator is promising, as is the Focus Fusion project at LPP under Eric Lerner.

[@katherandefy]

Patrick Stewart narrating this ❤

[@TecraTube]

you mean captain Picard

[@renegroulx7029]

I thought it was Ian Mckellen

[@monraryan]

​@@renegroulx7029definitely Professor X

[@brookerobertson2951]

You can AI it . But this is a bit old..

[@saespyder]

“Jean-Luc” was my first thought.

[@randomdill]

It's crazy to think such advances in physics science and engineering to boil water to turn a turbine. Basically the world's most advanced and expensive coolest steam engine 😅

[@haroldnabasajean]

that always bothered me like ok can't we just try our luck on also researching direct energy conversion

[@JE-mj8yz]

Make it so! 😅

[@haroldnabasajean]

@@JE-mj8yz I will one definitely one day😅

[@TheRealKlinky]

If the physics works then the engineering challenges will eventually be overcome. Trust me, I'm an Engineer!

[@johnh6245]

Even if you are right, what about the economics? In the decades when I was involved on the edge of fusion research, the mantra was that the capital cost of a fusion reactor would be a favour of six more than a fission reactor.

[@bikingcat3283]

How is that reusable rocket coming along? You are a vaporware salesman.

[@jamesrindley6215]

The physics of landing humans on Mars works out just fine, but so far nobody put up the money. Not everything that can theoretically be done is worth the trouble.

[@bikingcat3283]

@@jamesrindley6215 Humans won't make the trip without spin gravity and shielding equivalent to 1 meter of water. Also, a crew of 5+ will most likely be needed.

[@danielash1704]

Did anyone know about isbutain in a clear pipe as long as it's not in contact with oxygen it can traverse the pipeline in a plasma bubble?imagine an endless loop and twisted to mobius looping a ball pushing it around the flow sparking in spaced areas they are so much hotter in a way

[@patrickmckowen2999]

👍 Mr Fusion coming soon 😁

[@saeedsobhani1981]

Our generation appreciates the mind boggling hardworking people and scientists who contribute to such projects for the comfort of the next generations ❤❤❤

[@brianvittachi6869]

Thanks for the upload. What a brilliant documentary.

[@bahamadou7712]

Very dangereus experiment.

[@antonnym214]

Fission already doesn't make greenhouse gasses. Fusion reactors that achieve not just ignition, but Net Energy Gain are apprimately 25 years away and always will be. It's called the breakthrough horizon.

[@homo-ludens]

For me it looks like, fusion reactors are always 20 years away.

[@antonnym214]

Regardless of which fusion scheme proves eventually to be viable, Thorium fission in a molten salt reactor will be commercially available and cheaper than fusion energy, and the fuel is already molten, so there is no need to worry about a meltdown.

[@Michael-j4h]

Fusion is the energy of the future and always will be😊

[@coreybernard-c8e]

Always 30 years down the road.

[@bikingcat3283]

Public does not know science and engineering. The eat this stuff up.

[@jjamespacbell]

Fusion is the main energy source at my home. I like millions of others use solar panels and powerwalls for all my electric needs including charging my Model Y.

[@chrisvig123]

One of many sources of energy actually

[@AamirTime]

Great documentary.

[@carlishiggins]

old documentary , new documentation shows they have solved fusion

[@capncorncob7918]

25:42 i feel like the cup speaks to the job

[@sgtbrown4273]

Oh you got that right it's a big family and we ain't in it , just paying for it 😂

[@kristiangordon3508]

Professor X 🤟🏼

[@JohnKujawski]

The Tocamak will never work 4 commercial electricity! The 1's who designed & built this thing are the best Phd. scientists the world has 2 offer working on this thing! This is why was built in the vicinity of CERN! All the talent is already there! The Laer Fussion Reactor is the way 2 go! Although this isn't a Nuclear Reactor, Radiation is still present!

[@DejaVuDejaVuDejaVu]

Can't wait until 2039 :) Hope they will manage ITER. Great Documentary :)

[@barry.w.christie]

All this technology and we're still basically using steam power!

[@Charles-Darwin]

The ITER tokamak is not expected to be finished in 2025. The project's initial start-up has been delayed by nine years, from 2025 to 2034. The plan is now to skip the initial phase and begin research as soon as possible using a more complete machine. The tokamak will then undergo research for over two years before reaching full plasma current operation in 2036. After that, the reactor will shut down for further assembly and is expected to begin D-T operation in 2039.

[@Wavy_Gravy]

Is it just me, or does he sound like Tyson Fury? 0:21

[@Donny.Ford.79]

Brilliant video...😊

[@carolinadreamer6689]

How they got Patrick Stewart to narrate is beyond next level

[@pumpkinmedic]

He’s too old to appear on camera. What better way to spend one’s retirement than doing v.o. work?

[@MrStuartHolmes]

They didn’t. It’s Jean Luc Picard 😉

[@jordanTrevonHolman]

How old is this video again. Been some years on the memory. Know we had drain somewhere.

[@robwalker4548]

Research is always good but cost and safety is the finial factor. Imagine where we would be if as much had been invested in renewable energy research the last 30 years. Then for base power use Thorium-based nuclear power. Sadly just like renewable power generation the Chinese are starting to dominate just as they are with Thorium as a nuclear power source.

[@mohebalikalani2115]

thanks

[@helderalmeida3417]

It is believed that Nikola Tesla created a wireless energy transmission system, but it was never commercialized due to concerns about its potential impact on the electrical industry.

[@BurningGhosts]

Am I tripping balls or is the narrator the actor from Star Trek, Jean-Luke Picard?

[@sgtbrown4273]

It's him 😂

[@helmutzollner5496]

Yes, he sounds like Patrick Steward. AFAIK he does do voice overs.

[@helmutzollner5496]

Haha, will ITER ever be finished. It currently does mot sound like it. I guess iter will just be another science experiment. There is currently more chance to get energy positive fusion with a Stellarator, not with a Tokamak. Let's see which if the current Fusion startups will succeed first, but it will not be ITER, unfortunately.

[@helmutzollner5496]

38:46 yes, a tokamak reactor might work at 20025 😂😂😂

[@ProgNoizesB]

@@helmutzollner5496 all video's that are fake, have these things in it.

[@FrankensteinDIYkayak]

this might be the most efficient in terms of fuel but how about in terms of rare earths, nobel metals and such? how many thorium plants could be built for the same resources? thorium has to get used up anyway so as to make rare earth production cheaper.

[@GOTOSEE9]

Wild statement to say that the sun is terribly inefficient 😂

[@MrWATM]

I'm sure the Sun is losing sleep over this.

[@paulcoverdale8312]

If u consider how much is wasted? Yeah it is.🙏🙏👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🌍🌍

[@TheSnoeedog]

Are you familiar with this thing called MATHEMATICS? I don't think it's a wild statement to take the total amount of energy contained in a body and work through the binding and potential energies of the nucleons (there are these things called computers that help with the aforementioned -voodoo- mathematics). Then you take the amount of energy released by fusing elements together (more math, more computers) and compare that to an arbitrary value (100%? 90%? 20%? what's "terribly inefficient") Then, using this tool we have called cognition, we arrive at a conclusion: either the reaction is inefficient or it's not. What's wild about this? I should think, having studied chemistry, astronomy and physics at an undergraduate level, that it would be a wild statement to say the sun sun is made of really cold applesauce. so....I guess, qualify your remark? Unless you're happy to just broadcast both your incredulity and your obliviousness, then hey, I won't kink shame

[@hermancm]

It’s like the gasoline engine, it burns energy dense gas but only about 25% of the energy gets to the wheels to propel the vehicle.

[@gsestream]

just spin the plasma, it will squeeze along the walls, yes, intentionally. yes the plasma near the surface will cool back to gas. because of heat conduction, forming a protective layer.

[@322ecodesign]

Energy performance

[@ferrytadema2424]

Sick music.

[@GrimysocietyTv]

I will help with creating a new self ignition phase once accomplished I will open source the information

[@coreybernard-c8e]

Nuclear Power is the way to go

[@blondegirlsezthis8798]

Tokamac should be the name of the first cannabis themed burger joint

[@louisesumrell6331]

The planet will be fine, won't even miss us when we're gone 😅

[@jamiebee1642]

How did you get Avery Bullock to narrate??👏🏻

[@marvinschmidt4041]

Thumbnail reminded me on Oppenheimers trinity test ngl

[@turboslag]

Just so fantastically complex and massive!! And is this even a commercial size reactor?! What happens if one of those coils fails, or the plasma escapes confinement and destroys some or all of the interior walls?! Stripping the reactor down for repairs, if that's even possible, would take months or years and cost an incredible amount. Is there any prediction of service life? I'm not convinced the iter reactor is a viable solution. The collapsing bubble concept is interesting but is it scalable? And could it operate at a commercialy viable output for 25 years without needing frequent overhauls? These guys are obviously extremely intellectual but are they being swept along by the excitement of unknown technology? I think fusion or some as yet undescovered technology will eventually provide the energy needs of humanity but it's a while away. Personally I think wave power is being overlooked, it has been proven to be capable of providing enough energy for the whole world, and is infinite and constant in human terms. Day and night without fluctuation. The engineering is challenging but nowhere near the level of fusion toroid reactors, or as expensive.

[@robwalker4548]

The problem with wave energy is one of environmental issues. To generate the amount of energy needed will involve a substantial intrusion into the living space of aquatic life.

[@ShlamTorray]

one day humans could hold a fusion generator in the palm of their hand, first we have to get through the bulky clunky figure-it-out stage. it's worth ANY expense.

[@sdas683]

What about Sparky and the Vacuum Triode?

[@maxthemagition]

Imagine a piece from inside the sun contained inside a crucible here on Earth. Impossible or not? Then imagine that piece of the sun heated up by energy from the electicity grid and expecting more energy to be gained from it. Impossible or not? Would the crucible survive inside the sun? Would the crucible survive here on Earth? I fear not.

[@maxthemagition]

The plain truth is that we will never see a fusion power plant that actually works for at least another two or three generations. In other words, we are all paying for something that we will never see and it is very possible that future generations will be the same.

[@FaceFcuk]

That's how science works 😂

[@Guns_N_Gears]

Just get the tritium from the tokyo plant that keeps spilling it out

[@GarretKrampe]

I am the pie in the sky, laughing at you , can you see the reason why ? I am the maker of rules, Dealing with fools, I can cheat you blind. Apologies to Alan Parsons

[@maramé.r]

Wasn’t it Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin at Cambridge who determined the sun (and other stars) ‘burned’ hydrogen though her thesis was largely ignored and uncredited but subsequently incorporated into the ideas of illustrious male colleagues

[@BigGuy10Points]

Germany will refuse this tech because of those scary nuclear rocks

[@VeritasPraevalebit]

It is good that the necessity to produce enough tritium in the reactor is mentioned in the video. Each fusion reaction between one deuterium atom an one tritium atom releases one free neutron. This neutron moves at high speed and it will perhaps be absorbed by a liquid blanket that surrounds the reaction chamber and its kinetic energy will be used to heat the lithium and in a power reactor this heat will be used to produce electricity. But this neutron also has to fuse with a lithium atom. This nuclear reaction will perhaps produce a new tritium atom that will have to be extracted from the lithium that can be used to fuel the fusion process. For this to be a closed cycle it is required that each step in the tritium production has 100% efficiency and this is obviously impossible. A possible way out of this dilemma is to use a neutron multiplier and one method could be to use beryllium for that. When a neutron hits a beryllium atom a reaction that produces two neutrons can occur and they each have a chance to produce a tritium atom. If this is a viable road to fusion power is written in the stars. It might well be that what is written in the stars is "Don' t try this at home, use our free fusion power instead".

[@mpozainno]

Reminds me of the tower of babel in the bible.

[@dannywyatt7211]

And yes,the $ factor.

[@sgtbrown4273]

I think you meant to type $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ 😂

[@spudwesth]

They could have used Iver and mectin to continue unaffected. These super geniuses did not know this ?

[@GreyHak]

22:28 The lowest temperature in the universe is in the boomerang nebula? We've achieved colder than that in scientific experiments on Earth.

[@stephenbaker3680]

Well I just wish solar cells were more like 90% efficient! As for fusion..hmmm..I wonder if they consider the natural resonant frequencies of the elements in all this. They tune a beat frequency between the reactor & the element used,..then resonate the protons & electrons in highly stimulated levels.

[@peterpaliwoda1527]

Who’s listening to um ? “ this time next year Rodney “

[@maxthemagition]

So this crucible is constructed where inside the temperatures are far greater than that at the centre of the sun!.... There are three problems with that dream.... 1....Containment in the crucible. 2....Transferring the heat from the inside the crucible to the outside. 3....Getting more energy out than you put in to create the plasma or whatever it turns out to be, inside the crucible. The Sun is the crucible from which all life has been created and it has lasted billions of years. To think that man can create another crucible here on Earth is but a dream, in my opinion. Yet it seems our only hope, as the World's population rises exponentially. The wise and older generations may realise this and think that they will be gone long before the effect of over population and climate change hits them, It will be down to the new generations in a new world where demand exceeds supply.

[@Zodliness]

IT'S ALWAYS GONNA BE 'ABOUT A DECADE' AWAY! 🤔😉

[@paddymatter6255]

Interesting, all we do with the strongest force we know is driving a steam turbine 🤔

[@Kost78]

It's narrated by the Sir Patrick Stewart? 🤔

[@JoseLacy-c8v]

Mills Bypass

[@danielmartens156]

Pet peeve. All this incredible technology yet the narrator uses the word myriad incorrectly.

[@andreim841]

38:42 by 20025..?

[@sgtbrown4273]

That sounds about right 😂

[@marshmallow220]

This is to complicated and expensive to be commercially viable unfortunately I believe it will be one of humanities most expensive science experiments they have to find a different method.

[@Vlad-fs3gf]

Why can't the West live together with Russia now. There is so much potential in there

[@FilmCritiqueCorner]

so much this wonderful

[@vivalaleta]

Nuclear fusion so won't there be nuclear waste?

[@whatyoudo9773]

is it just me or does it seem like lots of giant projects but not much success? Kindof a way to stay in the money for scientist's, but I think the ultimate goal is to unlock antigravity IMO

[@Jae-dw]

We need clean energy,but i think this is going the wrong direction.

[@epiclegendaryking332]

So before I was born I found out how to go big bang bc I remember being in a empty dark space before I was born then now every color and every matter and alive

[@epiclegendaryking332]

Ps don't ask me why I'm watching nuclear fusion video and remember I was never here

[@epiclegendaryking332]

Ps the universe has a way to be in the right time a just right places in the right comments

[@johnmilligan4260]

Why is so much time and money committed to reaearching fusion when it could be mich more profitably invested in supercritical geothermal, with a similar but more affordable result in terms of reliable electricity production?

[@epiclegendaryking332]

Uuuu tretium what is that and where can i invest

[@o74769]

The year is 3024 they say fusion is only 30 years away.

[@danielash1704]

Id prefer a non electric vehicle druven by statically active vibrations

[@70svd]

Well electric is great but we still need battery and that’s rare earth and where do we get them? Unearth it… more mining more digging into the earth, question is; will that be good for the planet in the long run??

[@johnh6245]

At around 15.20 it is stated that tritium is obtained from reprocessing spent nuclear fuel. I don’t believe this is correct. It comes from so called heavy water reactors, mainly in Canada and these are near their end of life. The availability of tritium in the future is not guaranteed. By 2039 when tritium is needed for ITER, there may not be enough for the planned experiments.

[@RudolfGlaspie-y8o]

Annalise Orchard

[@daylegibson4367]

no one is talking about the waste

[@rocksnot952]

Trying to imagine doing the systems integration. Nightmare.

[@aigslmnop6559]

waiting for z pinch 10:31 paradigm shift; pulsed power just needs off take of explosions very difficult but not outside the realms of practical possibility albeit noisy rumbly avalanche landslide tectonic prone a realistic safer approach would start with appraisal of the vast mineral resources that don't fuse or fissure that said those will never augment time in the way humanity will one day need to survive on the universe's timescales very worrying 36:14 the material requirement what consequences for human biology and so on

[@ScottHardy-q7d]

Kenneth Fort

[@mdouglaswray]

Amazing. THX1138 come to life

[@bartwilliams4478]

Long delays now looking at 2034 to crank up Project has cost overruns in the Billions

[@yllitleinadable]

It’s crazy that their still promoting wind turbines when cost to build vs what they generate over life time is net negative. But yet let’s just piss more $ away. 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@susiedyer3260]

If it's that hot how do u keep the machine from melting

[@Charles-Darwin]

The magnets force the plasma into a donut shape - away from the sides of the walls. It's still much to hot, so they use liquid helium as coolant that circulates through the walls. The reaction still breaks down the interior surfaces over time so they have to replace those at some point.

[@Piccodon]

It will be too late for fusion. Build fission, MSR thorium and fast spectrum waste burners.

[@DamianStefanicki]

That's old See the lights? No LEDs SMDs

[@gnorman-ct2lt]

I wonder where the money is really going?

[@anonymousperson8487]

W00T?

[@SmedleyPolly-i9j]

Runte Rapid

[@VerifyTheTruth]

Not as difficult as they make it look.

[@realamerican1555]

Except you've achieved nothing with all that money 😂

[@ProgNoizesB]

nuclear failed, this will fail as well.

[@marcinkarpinski9163]

What is the release date of this documentary?

[@dannywyatt7211]

I think their fooling with something that'll get out of hand.

[@sgtbrown4273]

Don't worry humans will figure out a way to weaponize it so we can throw it at each other 😂

[@boldkojak2734]

What if the magnetic field failed, we get an uncontrolled fusion reaction ⁉️

[@kevinwnz]

are we over promising, I have doubts as to whether it will work, when it was designed that was the only technology available

[@philipculver2719]

Billions and billions of dollars, tons and tons of extremely complicated equipment. Yet the sun just happened..... lol it is actually absurd.

[@anvilicious1105]

The sun also needed billions of years instead of dollars 😂

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