Fusion Energy Could Be a Reality in Less Than 5 Years

SPARC is aiming to be the first experimental device to achieve an energy-positive fusion reaction. New research suggests that this goal may soon be within reach.
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With construction slated to begin in spring 2021, the team predicts it could be built within 3 to 4 years from that. Their goal is to achieve a Q factor of at least 2, basically meaning SPARC will pump out twice the energy needed to power it.
Actually, by the calculations in their papers, SPARC could possibly achieve a Q ratio of 10! But the researchers are cautious about overpromising, and are just focused on achieving the lower figure.
It’s still impressive, considering any net gain would be a first for human created controlled fusion.
Assuming it gets built along that predicted 3-4 year timeline and actually gets flipped on, there’s still several steps between SPARC and limitless clean energy.
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[@themadpolymath3430]

"The power of the sun, in the palm of my hand" Dr. Octopus

[@TobaJones77]

R.I.P.

[@idonthaveagoddamnname2623]

Proceeds to *BLOW UP THE CITY*

[@PresidentialWinner]

When i think about that scene these days it makes no sense. A fusion reactor can't have a runaway reaction, just the opposite. Also why the hell would he install a fusion reactor inside a NYC apartment building? How would anyone allow that?

[@stephaanjacques2269]

@@idonthaveagoddamnname2623 It's like a perpetual rubber band. Rubber bands are a privilege not a right.

[@surajsahoo4748]

Not every one can get this legendary comment 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@ragequit2GO]

This comment is a placeholder for when we see this video again in 5 years :)

[@Hgulix62]

Don't forget to edit you comment once you get enough likes

[@im_aleey]

And it's still going to be 5 years away.

[@the_hanged_clown]

this is a really good idea

[@chrisX1722]

Safe a link to this video in your calendar

[@firmman4505]

ok

[@gwyn.]

Used to be 40 years away for 40 years Then 30 years away for 30 years last decade was 20 years away Now it's 5 years.

[@Coyote47998]

Negative asf take that energy on some where else

[@xgerra16]

At least it’s decreasing

[@gwyn.]

@@Coyote47998 You need some logic.

[@gwyn.]

@@xgerra16 This guy gets it.

[@im_aleey]

I see this as progress.

[@2secondslater]

Conclusion: sustainable fusion power is still 30 years away

[@Kabodanki]

I hope there will still be oil at a relative cheap price in that time range, because without cheap available oil, humanity will be stuck most likely forever on earth.

[@mahikannakiham2477]

@@Kabodanki It is currently estimated that there are enough oil reserves in the world that if you were to burn it all at once, we would all die from suffocation so I am not worried about that lol.

[@Yattayatta]

ITER will do a 10 minute Deuterium-Tritium demonstration 2035, so it's 14 years and change away. You can follow ITERs progress on youtube where they post videos of the latest parts installed.

[@2secondslater]

@@Yattayatta fusion reactions have already been achieved, ITER is planned to be the first to sustain a reaction without producing an energy deficit. If it works then it is still at least 15 to 20 years or more for working reactors that are not an experimental prototype to be designed, built, commissioned and connected to grids around the world. My point stands.

[@Yattayatta]

@@2secondslater That is pretty obvious, the first time we achieved fusion on earth, or rather, willed it to happen was all the way back in 1952. I thought you meant sustaining a plasma, which we will achieve as soon as ITER is operational. I didn't think you meant sustainable as in economically viable. Economically viable fusion might never be achieved, because that depends on how alternative power sources develop. Sustaining a self feeding plasma will happen in 14 years.

[@user-cr3db7cb8n]

I think there’s a lot of things that are just 5 years away lol people don’t realize how truly fast technology is moving

[@zachariahstovall1744]

it's very exciting

[@FacilityMax]

We should just hope that international politics will stay calm and that there will still be enough money put into science to fund programs like that. I am just a bit afraid that after 2020 there will happen more bad things.... But let's try to be optimistic :D

[@robertmitchell806]

We just need to survive that long...

[@user-cr3db7cb8n]

@@robertmitchell806 we will lol it’ll take more then a virus and a hostile political environment to kill the human race we are a Resilient species

[@albertodelrio5966]

Like what??

[@Bobvindy]

QUICK someone write it down before it ceases to exist in 5 years

[@slayer96da1st]

69 someone in next 5 years make this 420

[@Orion2525]

The World: "Fusion, I'm tired of you cheating on me." Fusion: "No baby, this time will be different, I swear."

[@phoule76]

This meme, however, will remain the same.

[@jamesmorton7881]

missing a zero, (50 years ) we'll all be dead in 2070 Our sun works just fine, right now. Wasting time & money.

[@sebastianardilacruz5989]

you made my day with that!!! so funny!! and true

[@mattosx]

Sometimes, I just feel like we are going in circles... x

[@aytj2073]

@@jamesmorton7881 na, sub dont give enough power, we need so much that we could conquer the galaxy and invent immortality

[@LemonArsonist]

The reason I'm so hopefully for fusion is that it used to be "always 30 years away" 50 years ago, "10 years away" 20 years ago, and now it's "5 years away", the estimate is always going down, until it eventually gets to zero

[@watema3381]

Untill Governments say thats it's a waste of money

[@LemonArsonist]

@@watema3381 to be fair ITER is a project funded by the the EU and several other governments outside Europe. And with its 10:1 power output predictions in I think 5-10 years you could say they are

[@MrCodix]

until it gets 0.000001 ms away, and then 0.0000001 ms and then...

[@sheepketchup9059]

@@watema3381 how optimistic.

[@watema3381]

@@sheepketchup9059 Sorry about that! I'm a bit of a pessimist / realist. I see evil everywhere. The potential of "clean, pure 100%" blah blah energy just sounds too good to be true knowing today's world / reality / corrupt governments.

[@Kj16V]

Okay so who else rolled their eyes when the read the title?

[@chongjunxiang3002]

My brain: playing thunderf00t theme song.

[@jenson1569]

Yeah it’ll be decades before it’s a Reality

[@danielwhyatt3278]

Here, sadly.

[@kinfongyeung5400]

@@jenson1569 literally what the video said, 30 years before a commercially viable reactor

[@kinfongyeung5400]

plus, solar panels are harnessing the power of sun, a massive fusion core, so technically, we are already using fusion energy*.

[@hackerbrinelam5381]

" Tony Stark build this in a cave!!" Scientists in fusion research: " we are not Tony Stark but we did make an arc"

[@Hgulix62]

I heard a theory once that movies, anime and other audio-visually based creations influence ours way of thinking without us noticing, for we were not evolved to differentiate real memories with this kind of creations. The more a look, the more i see it

[@hackerbrinelam5381]

@@Hgulix62 Yeah probably making all these bizarre technology in movies to make us get used to it because they and the government knew if we found out about these technologies were real, we would freak out and pitchfork them as magic

[@im_aleey]

@@Hgulix62 reality imitating art.

[@rogerfroud300]

Yep, we've seen billions wasted, and all to prove it can be done without regard for whether it can ever be done economically.

[@hackerbrinelam5381]

@Tunishq Von Agreed but Good Jokes can be timeless

[@yarimapovedaalvarado]

3:17 "they got one thing down, the name: ARC" LMAO hell yeah they had to take that name quickly haha SPARC, ARC lol

[@stonetrench117]

At this point you guys should use other numbers like 7 rather than multiples of 5 Tho I still believe in fusion energy for now. Let's go!

[@glennmatthews758]

7 is way too precise of a number. If someone said they will make you a sandwhoch is 7 minutes, youre goibg to expect that sandwhich is 7 minutes. If they tell you they'll make you a sandwhich in 5 minutes, and then when that 5 minutes rolls around they come in and tell you 'due to unforseen circumstances, we had to delay sandwhich making to 10 minutes', you wouldnt be as mad. The numbers just add up so nicely, your brain barely registers them.

[@shantanutiwari4006]

@@kitty.miracle no

[@collinssambai6535]

@@shantanutiwari4006 no

[@User24x]

"This time is different" - Scientists every year the past 60 years

[@Gomlmon99]

No - media every year for 60 years.

[@dakotamcmillan]

well, things ARE very different over that time lmao

[@Radgerayden-ist]

Things are in the future until they happen. Sounds obvious, but a lot of people don't seem to realize just because projections have been wrong it doesn't mean it'll never happen.

[@Cyberplayer5]

@@Gomlmon99 Quite, media over simplifying and not following up.

[@domestic-terrorist]

None of my Ph.D physicist friends who study the basic science of fusion have mentioned being "5 years away." Last time I asked if we were within 20 years, they said, "who knows?"

[@MartenDykstra1]

I think it’s time to change the name of this channel to “maybe someday it could perhaps be plausible”

[@noori2105]

Hypothetically I think it could be possible in the near future

[@GetMedQ]

Just like a trip to the moon

[@anthonyfrank5191]

5 years i'll be 5 more years, oh wait maybe more.

[@Constellation3232]

What if fusion actually works but the longer the joke lasts the more energy is stored

[@the_hanged_clown]

that's the joke. same thing I will tell my kids every time they ask me, "are we there yet?". my answer, "five more minutes". every. time.

[@annastasijaspellman2536]

Ok boomer

[@the_hanged_clown]

@@annastasijaspellman2536 decade or so off from when they first started promising this crap

[@anthonyfrank5191]

Fusion already work, the problem is how are we going to convert those into electricity and sustain the fusion process. 100 million Kelvin in nanoseconds.

[@potterma63]

Not going to hold my breath. Too many promises from similar projects that just drag on forever.

[@coreytaylor447]

@Oshe Shango they never once even hinted that they where talking about elon musk, but ok

[@dudseyloler3516]

It's cutting edge unachieved subject matter what do you expect? There's more and more constraint pathways with more and more complicated goals. Innovation of the new much stronger superconducting magnet could of been the bottleneck to achieving more then net zero fusion, you never know. Only promise's and slow progress in fields like these I smile and wait patiently for because even if it will never to be to a benefit of my own the future of our species will reap the rewards.

[@coreytaylor447]

@Oshe Shango cool, no still not relevant though

[@coreytaylor447]

@Oshe Shango correction, it was a rhetorical general statements

[@coreytaylor447]

​@Oshe Shango statements are by definition rhetorical, thats why we go though the effort of separating questions form statements. because one asks for a responce and the other, often being the responce, doesn't not. this ain't even unique to English. its a fundamental pattern of human language.

[@carrotylemons1190]

WOW, oh wait it’s always five years away.

[@TheIntJuggler]

Soon it’ll always be 10 minutes away.

[@vyliad]

It's always 3 seconds away

[@user-Void-Star]

@@vyliad 1 second of black hole.

[@TheIntJuggler]

@@vyliad That’s 80 years away. In 1000 years it’ll be .001 seconds away

[@plutoniumisotope205]

@@user-Void-Star thats infinite

[@randomname5585]

*fusion energy could be ready in less 5 years* Me: hey, i heard this one before.

[@EbenVisher]

I just discovered you. I love your stuff! I wish, however, that you did not look sneakily to your left every few seconds. It gives me the feeling like someone in a choir who thinks people won't notice if they keep their head pointing forward but look left or right to see things (e.g. a monitor displaying the choir). Besides that, which you will no doubt remedy, what a wonderful treat your talks are. Wow, all the time you take in preparing and learning, and I get to see it all for free. Thanks *so* much!

[@pg2116]

We always left with "We need to wait 5 year"

[@MrAhmed42069]

I see you every where

[@pg2116]

@@MrAhmed42069 😂😅 Where where..?🤔

[@martir.7653]

Yeah, wouldn't it be awesome if progress could be made without doing any time-consuming work?

[@cam4007]

Yeah, they’ve been banging this drum since the seventies.

[@mistergeorge667]

we were already drawing up plans for interstellar spacecraft in the 70's too so I wouldn't be surprised

[@mistergeorge667]

@Oshe Shango the British interplanetary society

[@mistergeorge667]

yeah

[@thepropaganda1066]

@Oshe Shango you know NASA had planned for interstellar space ships i think they go back in the late 60 early 70

[@thepropaganda1066]

@Oshe Shango funding frome the U.S government but they never mad it past the drawing board and no the gravity problem wasn't even thought about back then hell i don't even think they were even worried about the van allen radiation belt

[@matttyler5651]

Imagine a world where fusion powers the lightbulbd in your house to the systems on spacecrafts.

[@slevinshafel9395]

i want to see fusion reactor on spaceship with plasma propulsion.

[@altrag]

I still want it to power my hoverboard. When's 2015 again?

[@Landgraf43]

Technically everything we use is powered by fusion because every energy we use originated from the sun exept nuclear powerplants

[@altrag]

@@Landgraf43 Technically correct is the best kind of correct!

[@skierpage]

The majority of satellites are solar-powered, and the majority of new generation is solar power and wind. Solar power is fusion power that works today.

[@professordanfurmanek3732]

Once again an outstanding job by Seeker!! Right on the very cusp of cutting-edge Technology!

[@mariomenezes5974]

Superinteresting and well done. But, gosh, couldn't get over his reading from the screen in front of him.

[@janpol2282]

1:28 yeah thats Iron Man arc reactor!!!

[@rajkumarkhadka3655]

Love What You Do Seeker Love from India

[@rajibsarmah6744]

I also

[@arthurharrison1345]

@@rajibsarmah6744 Too me

[@Rohan-bw1lh]

me too

[@oxbowtwo]

What a lot of people seem to be failing to realise is that its not just governments that are now doing research into fusion. Numerous private ventures are now developing their own fusion reactors. This was not the case a number of years ago. Clearly industry is seeing fusion now as a good investment. These private ventures are built upon the research produced by government funded projects. This is why government funded research is so important. It lays the groundwork for industry to become interested in an area of research.

[@aceroadholder2185]

Don't hold your breath. The first Tokamak I saw was at Oak Ridge.... 45 years ago. The first fusion project I was involved with was 35 years ago at Sandia National Laboratory. The physics of fusion is one thing... actually building a workable device is quite another. I'm 72 and I seriously doubt I'll live to see a fusion reactor that can continuously produce more power than it takes to run it.

[@gamethrough5530]

1:08 100 million Celsius is equal to 180 million and 32 fehrenhiet

[@beefling5390]

*wE aRE 5 YEaRs aWaY*

[@Rose_Harmonic]

I remember a lecture I watched here on KZbin where an MIT professor was talking at a CA university about what might be this exact fusion project in 2016

[@thomasbaird01]

Great video, high quality and entertaining. Thank you.

[@bhuvaneshs.k638]

Hopefully we'll see massive scale of Commericalization of Nuclear Fusion Reactors

[@BigHeadClan]

​@Oshe Shango Did you see multiple Nuclear Fission disasters in our history? Yup, that's why Nuclear Fission only makes up such a small portion of power generation those accidents neutered the industry. Fusion has no such stigma's associated with it as a new technology. Besides even Nuclear Fission may make a come-back in the interim, the new generation of reactions are just about done testing and they are safer, easier to build.

[@BigHeadClan]

@Oshe Shango There will also be massive government subsidies to mage a push for it just like there often is for disruptive technologies like this.

[@BigHeadClan]

@Oshe Shango Yes because they are experimental and everything about their design and fabrication is unique with majority of their components needing to go through dozens of revisions before a final product is ready. The scale of a reactor can change along with dozens of other variables affecting the cost. Once that has been completed however the actual manufacturing costs come down significantly and that is when you see private enterprises jump onboard.

[@BigHeadClan]

@Oshe Shango Also the validation process for a reactor is extensive, gen 4 Nuclear Reactors have been in the labs and performing smaller scale testing in reactors for months and still won't be available for years.

[@coreytaylor447]

@Oshe Shango "fusion will also be massively expensive at first." so was literally every billion dollar industry

[@vyliad]

If things keep going like this, fusion will "always be 10 years ago" in less than 20 years, I can't wait!

[@noori2105]

10 years ago?

[@boredgrass]

The "ARC" acronym almost knocked me of my sofa! ;-)))

[@keagaming9837]

Idea: In 30 years, we could have portable fusion reactors on spaceships.

[@ruisen2000]

This time, we'll actually have fusion in 30 years! Fun fact: probably no

[@senorswordfish6019]

Exponential growth of innovation excites me and only one of the few things that helps me believe in a prosperous future for Humanity. Kudos to all researchers, frontliners, scientists, and philantrophists of the World 💕 Through all of you, Humanity progresses step-by-step!

[@DeadlyDanDaMan]

The fact that they are completely open about their science and it has been reviewed and accepted by the scientific community, gives me a lot of hope. It proves they aren't trying to defraud anybody and are serious about their work. It won't be long before quantum computers and fusion reactors are just normal life for humanity. What an incredible time that will be...

[@arnesandness7554]

I was born in 1951, the year serious research began on fusion energy. I've heard this pie-in-the-sky stuff and the optimistic forecasts my entire life and they NEVER NEVER NEVER pan out. I don't expect much for this new "5 year" prediction.

[@thingsiplay]

This is the only joke that gets funnier each time you tell it.

[@h7opolo]

this gives me hope, especially since MIT is involved.

[@cjwrench07]

Metallurgy(like these new magnets) is always that silent sister in the background of innovation, that everything we build today relies on, but no one really thinks about.

[@TSnowy23]

Thats pretty cool. Thnx for sharing this news

[@robertidonotsharemyfullnam496]

if steve jobs were alive he would go to his team and say: I wan fusion in the iphone in 5 years. employess would suffer for 5 years and then we would have it.

[@NiToNi2002]

In stark contrast to ITER where gov’t workers seem to assemble a screw or two a day.... I mean c’mon, a test run in... [drumroll]... 14 years!! Say what now...?!? What additional effin’ stuff do they need to do or make that could possibly take F-O-U-R-T-E-E-N years to put together?! OK if the project timeline was 14 months, but this is just outrageous. Bet some participating nations are stalling the project so their own competing reactor development won’t be overtaken :(

[@godspeed133]

Elon Musk could pull this off too.

[@DSAK55]

"energy-positive fusion" is NOT utility scale power

[@austinobst8989]

Not yet

[@Digalog]

Thanks professor

[@rebelion1]

@seeker, the red motorcycle in the background, where did yall get it from?

[@Physicshelper]

Sorry for let y'all down, but q=2 is not puting electricity to grid. The efficiency of heating elements and electricity generation requires around q=10 to have net electricity gain. But let's hope that the efficiency can increase over the next few years. But we have never explore that parameter space, so we may have some surprise , either bad or good.

[@kroen]

We've been 5 years away from fusion for the past 50 years.

[@user-wm8xf3yv6i]

oh great its five years now. me lving in 2025

[@MSaleh-vy8rr]

2025 Nuketown boiiis

[@AndersWelander]

If high temperature superconductors provide the magnetic field in a tokamak, the magnets would still be cooled to very low temperature. This makes it possible to run more current and create a stronger field than conventional superconductors can. For this reason the machine can be made smaller which helps a lot.

[@alparslankorkmaz2964]

Nicely explained.

[@0neBadMonkey]

Not a fan of the emotive music. Makes me feel like I'm being targeted by marketing material. My money is still n focus fusion, but thanks, I'll be looking into this further later.

[@parthasarathyvenkatadri]

Fusion is just 30 years away 😂

[@willinton06]

@Oshe Shango about 30 years

[@willinton06]

@Oshe Shango I was joking but yeah I guess we could discover biological immortality in the next few decades

[@noelconrad4194]

this week I learn about nuclear fusion and fision reactor technology, and you post a fusion tech. 4 years in physics, i was yet interested in nuclear tech, but i've learn particle, molecular, quantum gravity, astrophysics, biophysics, condensed matter, etc

[@jamesbentonticer4706]

I just want to live forever to see all the technology we're capable of.

[@tripsquared_greenworks]

We need this fusion tech so bad. I just want to live in space so bad. Maybe even use a fusion drive to power a generation ship to Proxima or Alpha Centari.

[@ChrisHarmon1]

Only goal worth while besides maybe pushing the "delete" button on humanity.

[@dynestis2875]

@@ChrisHarmon1 if that's the way you feel about humanity, then why don't you start by deleting yourself? You're human and therefore part of your own problem.

[@Hgulix62]

Ah yes, nothing better that drifting into the dark space for decades, seeing ones body decaying while slowly losing sanity and the touch with reality only to land on a planet that is inhospitable to our weak carbon-based, water-dependent, oxygen-consuming bodies. Add to this the unstable politics of Earth and you have the perfect scenario for a space-depression movie.

[@TheCuriousGuyYT]

*Did you know?* While awake, a "human brain" can generate enough energy to power a light bulb (between 10-23 watts) !! ~ Facts by Curious JB

[@damfadd]

and many led's

[@watema3381]

I use potatos

[@kooshikoo6442]

The curious fact is how insanely low that is,compared to an equivalent computer.not that the brain can compare to any computer currently built.

[@softb]

Can it take 10-23 watts back too? Asking for a friens

[@Xenos_AR]

what about while sleep? can it powered a house?

[@aaronsimpson8907]

Can't wait to watch a video just like this one in 5 years!

[@syntaxed2]

"A working fusion reactor has never been achieved" - Yes it has, fusion has been achieved many many times and there are many reactors in existance today in operation. None however yield equal or more power than it takes to run them though.

[@TheCJUN]

Fusion is 5 years away, since 1950.

[@carlkiehne3423]

Why has basically the same video been posted 4 times in a row?

[@bensettle1387]

The incredible reality of Fusion is that we haven't stopped studying it, and we haven't stopped learning from it. It's only a matter of time before we master it.

[@andie_pants]

SPARC's acronym game is on fleek.

[@Rene86]

Please memorize the text instead of reading it. Your eyes are driving me crazy

[@danutorr]

Its not subtle at all either

[@nimismie]

He should move the camera and the teleprompter further away from him and use longer focal length lens. Eye movement would be much less noticeable.

[@phillycheesesteak1028]

Fusion reactor= arc reactor

[@alexharvey9721]

Would have been great if a bit more technical detail could have been included. Is their breakthrough just that they'll use modern, cheaper, higher temperature superconductors? Are they using more advanced containment field shapes or combinations of other advancements? I feel like a lot of important info has been missed? Will have to check it out.

[@aspuzling]

I think SPARC really is the most promising fusion project currently in development. The main breakthrough is the ability to create superconducting magnets that are twice the strength of the previous best which allows you to build a much smaller reactor. They also allow for a design that is modular so that individual segments of the torus can be replaced as neutron damage accumulates. Check out the videos on MIT's channel for more info.

[@seffy333]

I know I’m a little late but how do they produce the temperature needed to create the arc? Is negative kelvin involved in some way?

[@Vulcano7965]

The joke about fusion power always being a few decades away ignores all the breakthroughs we had in fusion power. We already have mutliple working fusion reactors following different concepts. We already sustained fusion for helium AND hydrogen. The only thing that we have yet to achieve is net positive energy. And for that we've already have had a solid timeline even without SPARC. The ITER project said to be finished (with all its testing) in the 2030s and DEMO in the 40s afterwards.

[@sk.tawsif]

The Thumbnail was awesome 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@mauijttewaal]

Promising, hope they can deliver. BTW if they use the Stellarator concept they can save even more...

[@jdawg1712]

I’ll revisit this video in 5 years.

[@prumchhangsreng979]

This is like old window pc progression bar. I said 1h less, when u come back 1hour later and it said 20mn left.

[@Streethawk1219]

It’s kind of ironic because in fallout 4 the main antagonist group is called the Institute which is under the MIT ruins. (referred to as the CIT in the game) They also managed to make a fusion reactor too.

[@madhavsirohi2225]

3:25 It might also refer to the arc of plasma created in vacuum tubes because of high charge!

[@TheChadavis33]

This plus the new superconducting material at 15° is a game changer.

[@russhamilton3800]

Not really. I mean JET was at .67 efgiciency unless you counted the electrical current they put into it which got us to 4 percent. 96 is a long way to go, it might not even be possible. Well possible to make net energy, its definitely possible for the scientists to get their pensions. Thats in no danger at all.

[@darkrockcomics6757]

I can't help but keep hearing the numerous uses of "might" and "may" which simply means we have to wait to see if it comes to fruition.

[@MasterofDesaster240]

Commonwealth Fusion systems... Ah those Fallout 4 vibes

[@vivianfoxtail5425]

the fact its not called massachusetts fusion really disapoints me

[@mxracer158]

Gonna be interesting to see in 5 years.

[@Tej132]

I just hope the big time Oil and coal corporations don't sabotage the research

[@kalen6342]

I think it’s awesome that we are close to creating fusion power that’s like what goes on in the sun. And it’s all been in the last century or two

[@russhamilton3800]

We aint close... At all

[@MaskedNozza]

There's been so much news this year in fusion, anything possible. I think with all the breakthroughs that have been happening I'm quite optimistic that we'll have sustained fusion reaction this decade.

[@Gomlmon99]

It’s not even planned for this decade, ITER isn’t going to be trying until 2035.

[@MaskedNozza]

By sustained fusion reaction, I don't mean net-positive. I'm just saying being able to sustain fusion for more than the 10 seconds record we have so far. There are plenty of other projects doing way better than ITER. As an example, HB11 has been doing well with a completely different fuel.

[@donny3183]

It blows my mind how smart some people are, I will be very proud of mankind for once if we crack this.

[@LINKedup101]

I've still got my fingers crossed for Lawrenceville Plasma Physics to get focus fusion off the ground. Aneutronic fusion is the approach we should be going after, plus the size is the reactors are so small. Less waste, less radiation, easier to obtain fuel

[@matt_b...]

Crazy. One of my former colleagues just went to work there.

[@tachyon1441]

Hey seeker you gotta update your video on lightsabers now that The Hacksmith made an irl lightsaber(protosaber) which is pretty much an actual lightsaber

[@robertdoneright8709]

Seeker, The follow-on link doesn't go to ITER - it goes to "How Close Are We to Reinventing Plastic?" Just FYI

[@goldcobraarima9819]

You should make a video about the Australien Fusion Reactor, if my memory is correct, thay use lasers to initiate the reaction

[@roy04]

Title and start of video: By 2025 End of video: By 2050 Reality: bY NeXt 2 MoNtHs

[@michellelewis3063]

the joke isn't that fusion is 40 years away and always will be, its that science communicators like SEEKER know so little as to always be the ones telling the joke ironically because they don't get it.

[@realBeltalowda]

You guys should do a story on LPP’s Dense Plasma Focus fusion device.

[@realBeltalowda]

Pretty interesting stuff for anyone interested: lppfusion.com/technology/dpf-device/ They use a proton and boron fuel, which has the rare and lucrative gas, helium, as a fusion waste product which can be captured and sold to be used for scientific and medical uses. The device can be entered safely within hours of fusion cessation because you’re not dealing with radioactive materials, just heat and electricity. The nature of the fusion produced by the dense plasmoid pinching mechanism also confines the energy released into two individual beams, one of ions and one of X-rays which can be captured to obtain net energy gain and fire another shot.

[@HansLemurson]

3:22 Yes, it is on purpose! I saw a talk that the head of this project gave about a year ago, and he said that the students, being Marvel fans, chose that acronym on purpose.

[@alexstorr5511]

I've always heard 20 years away, seems like they're both common comments. Bring on fusion though, then lots of desalination plants, massive irrigation, automated factories and transit...then we're looking like a promising civilisation!

[@adkenporter2829]

I want to see a fusion reactor in space for like the space station i wanna see what we can learn from it in ZeroG

[@Odin029]

People have been saying that we're living in the future for years... but if we get fusion power within the next few years, it'll be official.

[@wilz9388]

what a time to be alive if its actually 30 years away

[@ENGW1SH]

I’m glad they found a name for it

[@kylenoe2234]

I love that their plan is not secret. That's compassion for ya. Reminds me of jonas salk and his vaccine for polio. It's more about improving humanity and less about profit.

[@leewonnell1192]

This looks like the fusion reactor that can run the Enterprise spaceship and we could use it for that