ITER - the world's largest puzzle (2020 version)

[@zommboss975]

I am always surprised about how little attention this project gets when it is so crucial for all of humanity.

[@BrotherCreamy]

How broken our culture is...

[@trentiify]

Couldnt agree more mate, that has been on my mind a lot and its dissapointing that no one is recognising their achievements.

[@AkiraBergman]

Still gets enough attention for it to be built though.

[@tsd6916]

I found this by chance and I am absolutely astonished I have never heard of a project of such magnitude and time based dedication; at an international level. UNBELIEVABLE, this should be all over the news as a celebration of humanity in these difficult times.

[@zemerick]

@@tsd6916 It actually has been on the news a fair bit, especially the last couple of days, when it was first signed off, and when construction first started. It's just that it isn't currently a super high importance and general interest item yet ( since it's still decades away from producing energy, and even then it will never make electricity ), and it's all very long term. It would be nice if things like this were higher priority than a lot of other stuff though.

[@eulefranz944]

ITER is an example of human creativity and dreams. A sign of collaboration of people around the world, hand in hand, united with a single goal: To work for the future together. The world is watching and I send my regards.

[@stekra3159]

Ony Europe can get a team going that has china Russer japan India Korea and the USA as members working together. That investment will benefit all stakeholders and ensure Big resources to pull from all over the world while that makes it more complicated in the short run with Iter Components bind made around the world. In the long run thanks to Iter it will be possible to for that technology to be passed down into fusion powerplants that each stakeholder can build on there own. Iter will be the first of a kind but it will not be last of a kind.

[@Mic_Glow]

Sadly it has budget of 20 bil (or around that). The US could fund it alone using 2% of yearly military budget. I think the real gold rush will happen after this test reactor fires and works. Cheap, clean, almost infinite energy, space travel (once reactors get small enough)...

[@passerby4507]

@@PrivateSi For some reason, noun spammers like you crop up all over the place. Care to speak English?

[@passerby4507]

Actually, an example of engineering and science. They're not quite the same as creativity and dreams.

[@passerby4507]

@@PrivateSi Are you a sentence bot? Or is this style of writing some in-joke? For what it's worth, ITER is built precisely because people want to learn how fusion reactors should be built.

[@Wintergatan]

great video - thanks for all the info!

[@gdvpi]

Man I can't believe I find you here! I was precisely thinking about you currently building in the south of France! Cheers from Paris, an absolute admirer

[@swfreeD]

martin, this project makes all your marble machine issues suddenly look all small and trivial. isnt that inspirational?

[@marshalclarke5417]

Did not expect to find you here, love your motivation and energy in your own ITER project (Marblemachine-X sure takes a long time as well ;)) keep up the great work on your dream as well

[@menizdakul7311]

Hey Martin!

[@AndrewMellor-darkphoton]

hi

[@jacksonville667]

Most stressed out crane operators of all time.

[@syncRamon]

XD true story

[@murderdoggg]

Top Gun Operators.

[@charlesbarnes1878]

Thought the same.... Blow this one and its cardboard city.

[@wuddadid]

Can't wait for the first plasma test in 2025

[@contrnsmagnificndjoobngtaint]

prolly be 2030 😕

[@walterF205]

morning or afternoon?

[@mmmk6322]

@@contrnsmagnificndjoobngtaint en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER They were only a few months late on their original schedule. idk why you'd think they will be 5 years late, care to elaborate?

[@aaronnekrin5150]

It will be beautiful

[@snetmotnosrorb3946]

@Pavor One step at a time. This is way better than fission.

[@imperialguardsman135]

This gives me hope

[@trentiify]

It gives us all hope tbh, also, the Emperor protects! :)

[@Wafflepudding]

Report to your nearest Commissar for the cure

[@imperialguardsman135]

@@Wafflepudding lmao based

[@Krupnoklipac]

Hope? Russians already made an oil disaster on their invasion at North pole, idiot trump is rushing for oil in Alaska. And that's only a fraction of what idiots are doing. Hope u say?!"!!

[@Ezoteric369]

Hope for what? For more control over population and climatic changes ?

[@Strothy2]

The final day of the assembly: "we have a spare screw" ... no but for real I work in Heavy Industries I would love to get my hands on this one but holy mother of shmoo I'm not that kind of engineer. 3mm of tolerances are kinda much for this one, I head talks of a 0.3mm tolerance when it comes to the positioning of the magnets, those fields need to be spot on

[@murderdoggg]

Even better, the last four screws are too short. Happened to me building a BBQ grill.

[@otomackena7610]

@@murderdoggg happened to me with IKEA

[@Cyberdyne_research]

For those who just don't understand how fucking tiny that is... Imaging you're playing that water quarter drop game. Now imagine your car is the quarter... Now imagine the platform is larger than your car.. but not by enough to be detectable by the eye. Now drop your car from 60ft and hit that mark the very first time... Do that 26 more times.

[@daoyuzhang1648]

Bigger FUSOR/Polywell reactors? MCF need HUGE reactors to make more energy than it uses!

[@billbob7720]

DOMEPEACE420 except there’s no water and your not dropping anything. Sooo maybe come back with a new analogy

[@DantalionNl]

Science and Engineering bring the world together no matter the political circumstances and tensions between nations that would otherwise exist. May this be a workplace for people of many nations, it truly is science that brings us al together.

[@TheRainbowKiss]

Yup look at the space race

[@Kevin-id3yi]

This is the best thing happening in the world. Everything about the ITER project is inspiring.

[@kummer45]

The drawings, axonometric, 3D representation and the order of the presentation is flawless. This is a material that every architect, engineer and 3D modeler should watch. Outstanding video in every single way.

[@AngeloXification]

Can't wait for the KZbin guides explaining how to build your own at home.

[@roswellautopsia]

Probably an india guy teaching how to fix it on your own

[@fluffy_tail4365]

I'' be following closely. Knowing that ITER is underway is a dream from my childhood

[@soumapriyamondal3808]

Give me chills...such an complicated project, it shows us the power of collaboration and being united for a common cause with a single goal, to march into the future of near unlimited source of energy, clean and sustainable...that's great...

[@samburch]

This is testament to what humanity can achieve when we put our differences aside and work together for the good of all.

[@jamesbrown99991]

@Pale O'Pterix But they managed to get five different countries to put their differences aside to consume billions of $$$, so it's win win win. I don't know why you're so negative; it's not as if every other attempt to get net energy from fusion has failed or anything.

[@jamesbrown99991]

@Mr. Anonymous nope

[@pablopeniche9194]

"Tony Stark was able to build this in a cave... with a box of scraps!”

[@arun2686]

Hahahahahaha :)

[@chan_for]

@@satyavan9631 they do motivates us, Elon is too one of them

[@ronaldgarrison8478]

@@satyavan9631 Whatever you say, man. I look at that link, and I can't even tell what they're talking about. I wouldn't risk 50 cents on it, based on their spew.

[@hugodias2696]

That sounds plausible if you brain is made of hamburgers....

[@m.farrelfahrezi4301]

we are not tony stark are we

[@eruno_]

This is of the greatest importance for all mankind

[@MegaKalkas]

*personkind

[@eruno_]

@@MegaKalkas fair

[@MegaKalkas]

@@eruno_ Please, tell me that you felt sorry for me being that stupid, and you're not just that stupid.

[@incognitotorpedo42]

Why is this of the greatest importance for all mankind? It's a wildly expensive monstrosity with a mammoth carbon footprint.

[@eruno_]

@@incognitotorpedo42 If nuclear fussion energy is proven to be viable it would be one of the most ecological sources of power.

[@chandanindalkar]

And someday, someone's gonna miniaturize it.

[@MadHatter123456]

That's the thing. We built lot of smaller Tokamaks before, none were able of a sustainable reaction. A minimum size is needed to sustain the reaction and have a positive power output. Maybe someday there will be enough improvements in the process to build smaller Tokamaks though. Hopefully so.

[@MadHatter123456]

@@justanotherguy469 Oh get lost please...

[@kapsi]

People in 1950s thought we will be driving nuclear powered cars, but that didn't work.

[@mrff5975]

One hundred years from now this will be remembered as the start of a new era

[@Cyberdyne_research]

Been following for a decade. First heard about ITER in college. Could not believe that it was even possible. Had to educate myself just to understand the gravity of this project. God speed you crazy bastards

[@inamdarsaquib9528]

Glad to see contribution of my country, INDIA🇮🇳

[@schrodingersdad6077]

Being an Indian, I was quite surprised myself.

[@The_Unexplainer]

They should feed their people first.

[@Apollo-dq6jm]

@@The_Unexplainer thanks for ur suggestions. Govt of India will surely look after your valuable feedback, till then let's focus on the project

[@angelus77300]

Well, 35 countries contributing to this project

[@Apollo-dq6jm]

@@angelus77300 its a mega project which will benefit the whole world

[@alphaprot2518]

Beautiful mix of top-notch animations and drawings together with some real-world imagery of already existing things. A huge shoutout for the people who visualized this and made this video, because we all know: explaining science (and ITER machinery is a science on its own) is sometimes really hard without visualization techniques.

[@Cscuile]

Hope this goes viral. ITER will revolutionize the world, it deserves more attention.

[@kerbodynamicx472]

Cscuile Unless we are still a bit far away from a sustainable fusion economy. We need not only one of them, we need thousands of fusion power plants around the world. I believe we can see this within our lifetime, with such powerful technology, stars are within our reach.

[@isaacgardner5418]

anyone else getting super sci-fi vibes when she says "poloidal field coil"

[@tis_ace]

not to be that guy but its toroidal meaning donut shaped

[@isaacgardner5418]

Aryansh Sharma god damn it, it sounds a lot like she is saying polloidal. Well, thank you. I will edit it.

[@tis_ace]

@@isaacgardner5418 lmao it actually does.

[@tis_ace]

im a fuckin idiot, both poloidal and toroidal are words which describe the torus of reference.

[@isaacgardner5418]

Aryansh Sharma ahh well, the more you know I guess.

[@benjaminniven4210]

This is a really cool demonstration video! I had no idea the scale for ITER was so big. Really looking forward to seeing this project completed, and first plasma is going to be the next moon landing. Keep up the good work guys!

[@salamonshevda5239]

Success of ITER will make us sustainable species.

[@syncRamon]

just cant wait! good luck everyone!

[@AvaTTaRGreyOld]

Hi from Belarus as well, you are great! I`m proud to just live at same time than are living team of ITER :-)

[@dailyDesi_abhrant]

I am just glad that despite all the negativity in humanity, we have never stopped to move forward in the exploration of science.

[@abhinavnambiar4720]

I am happy to know that my country is a part of this project.

[@TerranIV]

Wow, I can't believe I didn't realize the first sector has already been placed! Only three more years until first plasma! This is very exciting. I'm sure once we get closer to the completion of Iter the world will give it the attention it deserves!

[@Kaylaruiz92]

It's already in effect

[@KMon1111IND]

This project and scientists involved should get much much more publicity given that they are creating the future power technology.

[@g00d-news]

this dumb world should way more focus on project like these then on dumb wars, damn politics, corruption etc.... what a great start

[@montyoh5243]

PrivateSi based

[@montyoh5243]

PrivateSi bruh I said based not biased

[@montyoh5243]

PrivateSi just look up the definition of based

[@alanwatts8239]

@@PrivateSi All you seem to have built is the "I disagree with everyone, so everyone must be wrong." wall around your head.

[@tis_ace]

@@PrivateSi i don't totally agree with you but molten salt reactors are the better option and are still being researched on by china(not sure)

[@crazychimp1324]

Absolutely astounding , there aren’t any words for this it’s breath taking

[@faquitta]

Not even a pandemic virus can stop a crucial step for one of humanity's greatest leaps, keep up the good work ITER!

[@yardbird8135]

I consider myself a rational and balanced person but when it comes to the ITER project I'm praying like a devout adept to its mission fulfilling. Its potential is enormous and could literally paint a new trajectory for all of humanity. The power of stars briddled for our hopes and ambitions. How we harness energy it's an apparently simple question behind which a pletora of challenges and risks are hidden,;fusion energy might well be the closest thing we human can conceive to a panacea. An enthusiast :)

[@wilz9388]

If this project is successful, it will literally change the world.

[@Gonzalito46]

Fantástico y una promesa que podrá salvarnos de la dependencia de energías fósiles ,felicitaciones a todos los que aportan a lograr este proyecto

[@deluxgaming6742]

Actually happy that the EU is listed as one member. The only way we can sustain our culture and progress is unification not separation!

[@simonemingozzi3897]

We definitely need to talk more about this stuff. People need to be inspired if we want to generate interest around this matter. And the more people is sanely involved the sooner we can get there.

[@flowtrotters12230]

2020 is not worst thanks for the hope ITER bring.

[@kirilovart1989]

Hi from Bulgaria! Great International Machine, for a better Feature! Good Luck :)

[@LyubomirIko]

Every European Union country is part of the project to some extent 🇪🇺🇧🇬

[@murderdoggg]

I hope all the updates are as well produces as this one. We'll be watching in 8K when it's finished.

[@zero15388]

i wish you all the best ITER! it is amazing what you have achieved and are going to achieve. INCREDIBLE!

[@pladselsker8340]

you guys will make the world a better place. I can't wait :D

[@someguy5944]

i like how the whole world is working together on this.

[@waynek1389]

Hope we and our future generations be safe and flourishing with iter. 👏🙏👍

[@ptonpc]

Most likely, I will not be around to see first plasma but I have been following this for years. Good luck, this could change the future of humanity for the better.

[@joserendon1025]

Man, I love engineering. Can't wait to graduate and participate in such cutting edge projects.

[@Erik-rp1hi]

Great video that I wish was longer and more in-depth. Welding the vacuum chamber is going to be a challenge I suspect. I hope the computer modeling allowed for human access with eyes and body in the comfort zone to do excellent welds.

[@McCarthyisms]

Hehe

[@danielwhyatt3278]

This’s just absolutely incredible. It’s all the more superb that we’re actually given really in depth information about the actual construction process and expected time scale for each component.

[@DrunkGeko]

This is truly inspiring, last time i updated myself on ITER i thought it to be much further in the future

[@OtoGodfrey]

It's amazing how behind all the politics, endless wars, destruction, etc., there is still a small part of humanity that comes together across nation borders to create the largest, most advanced and one of most important project in the history of human civilization.

[@janshulman7274]

Beautiful! The graphics were wonderful and made it so easy to watch and learn. A Performance Art for humanity... Imagine that! 🤔 🙏🏼

[@Lapantouflemagic0]

watching this really makes me think : this is what Sci-fy interplanetary industries would look like. moving building-sized parts with gigantic trucks and humongous cranes, things that are orders of magnitude bigger than everything that surrounds us in our daily lives. this will come again when we will be making starbases and colonization ships, thanks for this glimpse of the future !

[@shrabonibabu]

I was taught about this science of inorganic chemistry when I was in the 1st year Bsc during 1975, with a prediction that it will need to wait for another 35 years for the required technology to mature. Wonder how the scientific community could be so sure of the time prediction. So exited to wait and watch how humanity can resolve its future energy needs the most environment safe and impact less exercise.

[@SATOUBLOGS]

Some beautiful stuff right there. I hope it continues wonderfully.

[@DIYPlace_Create_your_World]

I Like this Project, its huge, complex and shows what we can do if we really want to

[@TheOriginalYaski]

Why is my youtube recommendation teaching me about such an awe inspiring and vital project? Why has nobody ever told me of such a massive and world shaking endeavor? I have a Masters in Physics and none of my teachers ever mentioned this. Such a shame.

[@RanveerSingh-xf5uk]

Seriously? that is indeed a shame! I'm not even in the science field, i'm a designer and i know about this haha!

[@channelhandlerton]

How can you have masters in physics and not have heard about this? I mean this comes up everytime fusion is mentioned.

[@TheOriginalYaski]

@@channelhandlerton None of my teachers ever mentioned it. I'm not subscribed to any physics magazines or newsletters or such, but I feel like it shouldn't have to be when this is so big and I had multiple teachers who could have brought it up. Edit: Also, I don't know if I was drunk or tired or whatever when I wrote this comment but I have a Bachelor's not a Masters... but still in Physics. So the point still stands if being lessened.

[@Anamnesia]

This is a very good & interesting video! My compliments to the producer/writers/director...

[@JohnJohansen2]

0:42 Actually ITER was set in motion back in 1985, during a meeting between Reagan and Gorbachev. Lots of political issues delayed the project again and again.

[@snetmotnosrorb3946]

Yes, but actual work began 2 decades later.

[@royk7712]

@@snetmotnosrorb3946 actually its not that bad. lithium ion battery in '85 but it still not good enough until 2000's. that's just a battery, scale up to fusion power, researcher need good amount of time and money to achieve it. first major fusion reactor is hydrogen bomb in 50's but its not viable to produce power until 2030-2040. i mean its okay considering building hundred thousand kilometer of superconducting wire, gigantic vacuum vessel that can sustain extremely high energy of neutron, breeding tritium from lithium on blanket etc etc

[@smiley235]

Great work ITER

[@derpaderps]

Meet this delicious piece of engineering: "EATER"

[@rifz42]

haha I'm going to keep calling it eye-ter

[@MidwitObservations]

Planet eater

[@alanwatts8239]

Plot twist: this video was made by the very ITER team, meaning it's pronounced "Eater" rather than "Eyeter"

[@derpaderps]

@@alanwatts8239 Did they know she had an accent?

[@alanwatts8239]

@@derpaderps You don't get it, this video was probably made by a group of indian people, their accent sounds like this. This is not a project exclusive to america, a lot of countries are working on it, seven in total. Be respectful.

[@Andytlp]

power to do anything if this runs up to everyones expectations.

[@axem.8338]

Let's hope fusion is not 20 years away this time.

[@chan_for]

Hope USA delivered them under *SI units.*

[@DouglasNovaes]

hahahahaha Very good! I hope too!

[@JohnTrustworthy]

"One hundred and seventy four gigawatts - 'the power of the sun at your fingertips.'" - Tychus Findlay

[@T0mek87]

To anyone working in project environment this is amazing. How do you even manage such a complex international project in the first place? This is definitely an engineering marvel, but it should be studied from project management perspective as well.

[@trashreaygan4950]

Hope it will be a success

[@smeghead666]

2:40 the way the boat leans from the weight looks awesome

[@eulefranz944]

What is the first piece of music played in the video? Thanks in advance.

[@MKxpl]

so uhhh, how do you fix this, when something goes wrong, do you take the whole thing apart ? :>

[@igorfreitas2841]

Abraço de Portugal 🇵🇹

[@gabrielfriedel4754]

Oh Lord, I hope this works. And ASAP too!

[@Norantio]

Thank you ITER org

[@Thep184]

Why isnt this project more heard of ? Its literally nations and peole,working together, laying asside borders and conflicts to create something that can benefit all of humanity

[@Fabi42069]

This is so exciting!

[@cadencollins816]

I am so FREAKING excited

[@pirminborer625]

How long did it take to ITERate on the design?

[@Daniel44DO]

fusion for future

[@georgeisaak5321]

Amazing project , even the attempt of doing such thing is so brave it almost sounds silly . I hope everything goes well from start to finish , i hope they took in consideration any possible scenario ! Two options really : this either will work like charm and everybody will be proud and happy in the end , or this could go South , really , really quick and with a loud boom at that .

[@Block99skills]

Love the progress of this project, something to makes you keep going and having hope for the future. Could you also upload this in Spanish please? There is a huge spanish speaking comunity out there!

[@БелыйПёс-х2у]

почему нет еще действующего microITER?

[@patricklew3041]

Beautiful piece of technology marvel.

[@ericdavis7779]

I have been working on this at home for the last ten years . It's about time the world is coming together to collaborate and make this a possibility . They are on the right track but some day soon I will make it to the site and help improve . They are missing some crucial steps but God it's so relieving to finally hear they are on the right track

[@deego237]

This is amazing!

[@ontheedge33371]

I've been watching and waiting . Its very awesome I wonder when can we expect it to come online ?

[@saiskanda]

Can't wait for this little 'star' to self sustain!

Amazing machine. And great video, thank you.

[@Bultish]

what is different with ITER from other tocamacs?

[@saintsinister8859]

ITER is prototype of first thermal-fusion reactor.

[@sanjaygupta6746]

@@saintsinister8859 then what about other fusion reactors ? what are they ??

[@NPJGlobal]

Size

[@soumenmondal2378]

@@sanjaygupta6746 most of the fusion reactor aren't capable to produce power, because tokamak needs input power to sustain fusion in it, and in general this input power remains greater than the output power which we gained from fusion resulting in a net Power loss and that's where the problem is, that's going to change with ITER...

[@sanjaygupta6746]

@@soumenmondal2378 thanks

[@seandent5141]

Just look what we can do when we work together. 🌍🌎🌏 one world, one species, one future.

[@christophersbarounis8473]

I've put my hope to humanity in to this

[@RuhjedVentula]

ITER is awesome :)

[@JanEisJan]

So nice to see all of those countries working together in spite of political things going on at the moment.

[@MrTomyCJ]

Is it still necessary to build a reactor this big? Nowadays there have been discoveries that make much smaller reactors possible, so it's probable that future commercial and experimental reactors will be smaller, so isn't a sunk cost fallacy to keep making this huge reactor that will be obsolote by the time is finished?

[@samzhao638]

Yeah! Clean energy.

[@pranavmehlawat3841]

Real heroes work in solitude.

[@CCRob720]

AMAZING!!!!!!

[@amarjitrangi8211]

It is amazing.

[@MrSafer]

I can see it now, Exxon gonna say "you still need oil mate".

[@croonx1779]

Oil company's should understood that fusion isn't thread for them. Cheap electric energy can help easy clear atmosphere from excess CO2 and even produce oil in artificial way because diesel engine is very efficient and cheap so fusion revolution doesn't mean oil revolution.

[@CarlosAM1]

Yes please!