Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough With Hydrogen-Boron

[@lhfirex]

I like Sabine's enthusiasm for announcing the telephone will ring.

[@poulanthrope]

The phone is easily my least favorite part of these videos but I have to respect the strength of the commit to the bit.

[@nubletten]

@@poulanthrope same but everything is usually too good to ignore. If i remember correct there was one episode she did not mention the phone in the intro, i liked that version.

[@To.Ma.To_78]

yeah, essentially revealing that she's actually a science defying psychic, lol 😅

[@habibie]

Of course

[@To.Ma.To_78]

and who exactly liked that spammer comment in here? grr, lol

[@Christopher51now]

This lady is awesome. I love listening to her. I have to pause the video to look up things. She makes this so cool for some reason. Makes it easier for idiots like me to understand but I’m still interested in the subjects.

[@AndySpicer]

I have to say, I may be somewhat ‘cynical’ in my old age and when she first did the phone bit I thought, oh good, unnecessary drama affects. I was wrong! It has become one of my favorite segments. Sabine is freaking hysterical. Love it.

[@marcosmith6613]

Same, 'Oldie' here, it's grown on me.

[@teekanne15]

The bit is often kind of cynical, isnt it?

[@Reepecheep]

That's still my thought. Least favorite part always, but I look past it for the balanced, informed reporting.

[@adamwho9801]

The one-sided phone call is so old (70 years old Bob Newhart bit) that it is new

[@rainbowkrampus]

If they weren't like 75% dunking on Elon Musk for being a moron it would probably get pretty old. As it stands? It's the gift that keep on giving.

[@Scramjet44]

So nice to hear you talk about Decimeters. It is such an underused unit of measurement.

[@mannyortega]

Just like Decameters! They deserve more love!

[@nagualdesign]

I use a satnav at work and when I'm approaching a customer's house it reads out the address, but it treats the final part of the postcode as an abbreviation, usually for obscure units of measurement, and reads them out in full. So _4HL_ becomes "four hectolitres", _3SR_ becomes "three steradians", _5DC_ becomes "five decicoulombs", etc. 😊

[@bacca71]

In the highly competitive sport of snail racing, we use furlongs/fortnight.

[@lurkingturkey7882]

I don't know. It sounds a bit "marketing" to make a measurement sound smaller by using decimeters rather than millimeters

[@thomasherrin6798]

Blimey Charlie I didn't know it was a thing, I would measure my tomatoes with it, but I will have to wait until Spring, it's so tough, on the plus side, I'm not under the EU and as such life seems great, yes we got our problems but less and less of yours, energy has been a far bigger draw back (I wonder what caused that problem!) and that will be sorted by 2030, fusion or not!?!

[@burningchrome70]

While I have often admired the physics and beauty of hummingbirds I never once stopped to consider who the baby daddy was... Thank you for leading me down new paths Sabine!

[@johnbwill]

Being self-educated since high school, I can only rejoice in the quality of 'free education' available to those who have a laptop and an internet connection. But this wondrous torrent of deeply rich education wouldn't be possible without the contributions of peole like your good self Sabine. You enrich all our lives with your distilled offerings. Thank you for your efforts.

[@slyfox6996]

Man Sabine you started talking about the polarization of the magnetic field and I was immediately reminded of my EM 2 exam I got today. At first I was excited because I understood what you were saying. Then I was less excited after looking at the exam and realizing how far I have to go to fully understand what you're saying.

[@saltycreole2673]

Lol!

[@DFPercush]

I'm still a bit confused about how a magnetic field actually polarizes light, but I think there's a missing piece that nobody mentions when they talk about it. It's not just light traveling through a magnetic field, it's light traveling through a medium, i.e. matter, in an external magnetic field. That's the Faraday effect. I guess that means the interstellar medium of hydrogen plasma is what actually changes the polarization. Or I could be completely wrong.

[@mcburcke]

A world-class scientist with a wicked sense of humor...I love this person!

[@LuvHrtZ]

When I was a kid, Astronomy was little more than taking pictures of the sky, but now, it's mind-boggling the extent to which it has developed.

[@dlevi67]

Or maybe when you were a kid you didn't know as much about astronomy as you do now. Or both (most likely).

[@oldoneeye7516]

My nickname is "Old One", but I guess next to you I am not even born. Being around for 2000 years must be amazing.

[@Xeridanus]

It's still taking pictures of the sky. Scientists have just worked out really clever ways of looking at those pictures.

[@benthere8051]

I really enjoy Sabine's sense of humor and her knowledge of the subject(s).

[@drakemia4079]

I agree

[@chris2kgreat]

I look forward to your science news every week

[@tomholroyd7519]

It's changed a bit

[@baileescott401]

I found your channel about a month ago, you're now my favorite channel. Thank you so much, from the bottom of my soul

[@tom-vf1xv]

cool it

[@BigFoopy]

Watching Sabine’s videos make me feel like I’m in college again, having long and interesting conversations with my advisor! Good times :) thanks Sabine!

[@smlanka4u]

The generations of the Higgs particles: 1D, 2D, and 3D. There are two more Higgs particles to discover.

[@carlodebattaglia6517]

I have the distinct feeling that at the LHC we are trying to understand the sophisticated and complex workings of a car engine by crashing cars into each other at 200 km/h and seeing what happens, but it is just my impression :D

[@edwardgatey8301]

Way more than 200 kph: more like near speed of light kph. A bartender says, “we don’t serve faster-than-light neutrinos here.” A faster than light neutrino enters a bar.

[@LukeLane1984]

​@@edwardgatey8301 A neutron walks into a bar and says: "How much for a drink?" The barkeeper says: "For you, no charge!"

[@MountainFisher]

@@edwardgatey8301 They only attain 20% of the speed of light in the cyclotron, if they could go faster they would.

[@makerofnoise]

@@LukeLane1984 I've heard about this Schrödinger's Cat joke but don't know if it's funny or not.

[@FredPlanatia]

@@makerofnoise its somehow funny and not funny at the same time. I am in a superposition of laughing and grimacing about it.

[@tau9956]

I am new to this channel and I find it really interesting. Great work!!

[@j-mo7231]

real shit

[@MikeM-go7hp]

Me also. This is now my favourite hard science channel on KZbin now.

[@MikaLukkarinen]

Me too. Science with humor, well, kind of. I like it.

[@jaredf6205]

Her opinions on n particle physics are notably controversial, so you are aware.

[@cowboybob7093]

6:52 "more complicated" vs "more complex" - A distinction with a difference, and a common shortcoming in spoken English. Keep up the good work Dr. Hossenfelder.

[@kamyuen1478]

Higgs-so-son 🤣. Absolutely killing it.

[@claudeallen256]

Thanks!

[@Kevin_Street]

Thanks for another thought provoking video! The part where astrophysicists were able to measure the magnetic fields of galaxy clusters was the coolest. The hummingbird story was interesting from a physics point of view, but it's also sad because they had to collect samples by killing the bird. Poor hummingbirds.

[@edwardgatey8301]

If you’ve ever had hummingbird feeders you should recognize that they are vicious competitors and thank goodness that these little dinosaurs aren’t bigger!

[@Kevin_Street]

Little iridescent dinosaurs is a fun way to think about them.

[@williamromine5715]

​@@edwardgatey8301 My parents had hummingbird feeders, and the males were especially vicious. If they were the size of eagles, humans probably wouldn't have survived as a species. Sure were fun to observe though. Thanks for reviving some fond memories of a time long gone(I'm 81).

[@markrainford1219]

They volunteered.

[@alkriman4182]

@@markrainford1219 They were mobilized! Funny how that leads to immobilization.

[@missh1774]

Always love Sabine's smooth "wink n elbow" catch phrases. Nice, I've been noticing more albino or odd colour changes for various bird species too.

[@citrusblast4372]

i like how much more fun you have and subtle/dry humor you are using nowadays

[@saugeyes]

Cern is going to be an awesome go cart track once they get this particle amplification thing figured out.

[@glennllewellyn7369]

I’m going first!

[@Gunni1972]

It's certainly High-speed tested, that's an actual fact. But circles are kinda Boring. You'd have to spice that up somehow, to make it interesting.

[@matthewrberning]

This series is one of the best on KZbin! Thank you for being here!

[@sergiorego6321]

Amazing! A treat to look forward to every week. Keep them coming!!!

[@sydcrafty5498]

Thank you for your transparency in giving the names of the machines (e.g. Stellarator) and a small explanation of how it functions and why. It's just enough information that gives a person a chance to conduct more research if the curiosity is there. 🤩

[@MyNijo]

Thanks for the good video. These are the only news I still like to watch!

[@gefginn3699]

Great post Sabine. I always enjoy tuning into your newest post. Stay strong, free and healthy my friend.

[@MCsCreations]

Thanks for the news, Sabine! 😊 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[@MCsCreations]

@skippy6086 🖖😊

[@jjeherrera]

6:20 There's a wide misunderstanding about TAE Technologies approach. Of course nobody would be able to achieve p-B11 thermonuclear fusion with present day technology. What Norman Rostoker proposed, and is the idea behind the project, is to confine the beams coming from the neutral beam injectors within the plasma. This is different from what happens in a nuclear physics accelerator, in which you have a low current beam impinge on a thin target. This can also be achieved, and is acctually achieved in current tokamaks and stellarators when neutral beam injection is used, so it was just a matter of trying with p-B11. These experiments will also be useful to study alpha particle confinement in tokamaks and stellarators, which is an outstanding problem.

[@cltr8011]

The science news is one of my favorite moments in the week 🤩😍🙂

[@stangadomski]

Sabine, you should get Nobel Prize for understanding topics of your lectures.

[@BeyondWrittenWords]

If we could get one Joule of energy for every time nuclear fusion breakthru is announced, earth would produce more energy than the sun itself

[@5133937]

It’s amazing that they’re discovering anomalies in LHC data from five years ago. I don’t how that research works, but I would have thought they’d have a big supercomputer crunching the numbers and looking for anomalies round the clock the instant that data became available. Why the 5-yr lag?

[@QuesoCookies]

I'd be interested to find out if the advances in wakesurfing could finally make fusion viable. The massively increased energy from successive surfs seems like it could be the breakthrough in making fusion net positive and self-sustaining with more accessible fuel sources such as boron.

[@jeepzjftw]

I always appreciate Sabine's presentation. Even better, I learn along the way.

[@obsidianjane4413]

@14:33 "biologists thought they'd found a new species of hummingbird but..." They killed and stuffed it.

[@rael5469]

Why can't we get people this incredibly intelligent and this charismatic to run for leadership positions? Dang !

[@absolutmauser]

Wow that drawer of dead hummingbirds is a hell of a thing

[@yumazster]

'For science!'.and everything but yeah, hell of a thing.

[@leighedwards]

H-B11 fusion also has the huge advantage of generating electrical power directly without the need for the neutron flux to heat up the vessel, then generated super-heated steam, to turn a turbine, to turn a generator to produce electricity, with all the complications, losses and expense involved.

[@JanBoshoff]

Really enjoying your videos Sabine. I wonder how much CO2 is produced while making the absorbent wood. Will the wood ever be able to absorb as much CO2 as it produces during its production?

[@alihenderson5910]

It's ability to absorb funding is far more important, however, awkward questions can negatively impact it's efficiency.

[@naamadossantossilva4736]

​@@alihenderson5910 the true green in "green" stuff.

[@jamesvandamme7786]

@@naamadossantossilva4736 That's the sad truth about many CO2 sequestration schemes: they are inadequate or temporary. You can grow wood, but then soon somebody comes along and burns the wood. Biochar is probably the best way to sequester carbon for hundreds of years; it also improves the fertility of poor earth. Might be a good subject for a video. Oh wait, there's already been a ton of videos on it.

[@johngeverett]

Sabrina is always informative and entertaining at the same time.

[@rubenlopez2764]

What I love most about this, is that you're not just another Elon fan lol

[@Alorand]

Every Elon fan I've ever met makes good-natured fun of him.

[@YayComity]

He's such a low life. His number should be blocked. It's not even tasteful to make fun of him.

[@CHIEF_420]

Él es loco hoy jajaja

[@EnglishMike]

@@Alorand Not in my experience. They're typically as thin-skinned as he is.

[@andrewharrison8436]

He makes the phone call therefore he is the fan of Sabine!

[@causewaykayak]

Humming Birds look gorgeous . "Especially when tied up and Dead ? ? !! "

[@davaguco]

I feel the complex and energy intensive process to make co2 absorbing wood is absurd.

[@grizwoldphantasia5005]

I too wonder about that. How much CO2 does all that heating generate? How much CO2 is created while creating the chemicals? How much waste material is left over, and how much CO2 is created recycling or destroying them?

[@edwardgatey8301]

If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it. If it is broken, work the hypotheses toward a theory. Test the theory. If it works, it’s a theory. Otherwise, just another hypothesis.

[@wolfgangpreier9160]

Why not plant a tree in the Amazonas? They got the space now that they burnt every tree down. It will absorb CO2 again in 100 years or so.

[@robo5013]

Plus how much more is that lumber going to cost? If it dramatically increases the cost who is going to be able to afford to use it?

[@FredPlanatia]

yeah, i wonder if they analyzed how much grey energy is involved in the processing to get the material.

[@metakron]

always a good day and luck when sabine publishes science news

[@alankott3129]

I wonder if Wakefields will eventually be used in Ion propulsion. Exciting stuff.

[@Danuxsy]

We already riding the wave of science 😎

[@AndrewBlucher]

​@@Danuxsy Ah, you left me in your wake!

[@jasperlawrence5361]

thank you Sabine

[@jameswright4640]

I love your work, this channel, and the weekly updates. The calls, especially from Elon, are terrific. :)

[@andredelacerdasantos4439]

Imagine she actually gets a call from him at a random time in real life.

[@D_Cragoon]

The wood thing sounds, as well as useful, a bit like tree necromancy!

[@QuesoCookies]

Hemp-based insulation is another carbon-absorbing material. It'd be interesting to see if building structures with necrowood and hemp could make buildings better insulated and carbon negative.

[@donaldcarey114]

The process does not look like it would be environmentally "friendly". Solubile iron released in the ocean's "deserts" would remove far more CO2 for far less cost. But that would actually work and not allow for corrupt politicians to benefit from it.

[@larnotlars1717]

Having spent a few years in the college dorm, I am forever grateful that I couldn't see through walls....

[@brothermine2292]

Nor be seen.

[@intothevoid2046]

Amazing: A whole new process of processing wood to achieve the same effect as if you did nothing to it at all and just let it grow. The genius of men....

[@edwardgatey8301]

Gotta be men. No woman would entertain such nonsense. But, maybe there’s a good hypothesis at the end of the experiment.

[@brothermine2292]

On the land where the trees were cut down, one could grow more trees. Can't do that if they're not cut down.

[@alihenderson5910]

A lot of effort, energy and resources to make a smaller piece of wood. It's almost as ridiculous as fusion research.

[@hg2.]

Fusion is just a HUGE and STUPID BOONDOGGLE. FISSION, works at 600 degrees C (vs. 10,000,000 C for fusion) and there's unlimited fuel for it - thorium (see the Kirk Sorenson videos). kzbin.info/aero/PL6JjafE5gsb9nSmudoj5MUKxX8LTKO0-J But the fusion world starts at 10 MILLION degrees C. It's stupid to try and make a POWER plant under those conditions. It's stupid to try. You'll scream when you figure out how stupid we've been in this business. Meanwhile, Fusion con artists are laughing all the way to the bank.

[@realzachfluke1]

The Higgs _So-son_ 💀😂

[@VaingloriousVampire]

The Wakefield acceleration is a fantastic advance Sabine! I have always thought it was ironic that the largest machines on Earth are built to study the smallest things in the Universe. To me, a fusion reactor should be the size of a matchbox. Can we do lunch Sabine?

[@EchoLog]

Again?! It's like these scientists update their theories based on new analysis of data or something! How ridiculous of them /s

[@StylishHobo]

Keep moving that goal post

[@moroteseoinage]

Magnets. how do they work?

[@nexpro6985]

​@@aperson2730 take a science course.

[@robertjennings397]

I saw you jump rope last week. Your endurance was remarkable.

[@carlodave9]

There is nothing new and factual that theoretical physics or astrophysics can reveal that is mind-blowing; it’s all just tiny attenuations or eclectic uses for what was figured out over 70 years ago. It’s depressing. But lots of careers made out of fantasizing! Lots of that. Multi-universes, string theory, life on other planets, wormholes, fusion energy, warp drives, etc,… Good God, even our fantasies are old!

[@petermacinnes5313]

What are "Magentic Fields" at 11.15 ? Perhaps the benefit of the doubt should be given, as there are some magenta like colours in the image ? But, why do so many KZbin clips, even from seemingly reputable scientific sources have soooo many basic spelling errors - in my view, it detracts from the veracity of the content. Proof reading, please - it takes only one or two run throughs of a 10 to 20 minute video prior to posting. P.S. - Sabine is one of the best educators out there IMHO - this was not her error - thank you SH !

[@jessstuart7495]

The CO2 absorbing wood is a neat idea, but if the process and all the ingredients that go into making it release more CO2 into the atmosphere than the wood absorbs, then it might not be worthwhile. If it is produced using "green energy" that might make it practical, but you have to consider "green energy" is still more expensive than burning coal, and most manufacturers are only concerned about the cost of their electrical energy, not how it is produced.

[@edwardgatey8301]

And who wouldn’t? Thought about a deal on solar panels for my house: i’ld be long dead before it paid off for me. Spend more for less in my pocket? Don’t think so. Rapa Nui, oui!?

[@robo5013]

Plus how much extra will the wood cost. If it increases the price of a house by even 10% that's a lot of extra money. And I bet it would be much more than 10%.

[@billmaghan]

Thank you for the flawless captions.

[@mjolnir3309]

'who doesn't want to be famous for 1 trillionth of a second?' but, for a particle physicist, that's nearly an eternity.

[@Andyvan92110]

1 Quadrillionth

[@kern77]

You are a blessing to Science!

[@satyris410]

Happy International Women's Day 2023, Sabine! I love Sabine's videos, I don't watch enough female science KZbinrs, I don't feel there are enough so I try to follow and engage with the content of more. Sabine is amazing, as is Becky Smethurst. I think the mathematician Hannah Fry is absolutely incredible as well but I don't believe she produces videos under her own name; I sadly knew a girl who passed away following an ovarian cancer diagnosis. I hope and pray Dr. Hannah remains cancer-free. Dr. Becky is an astrophysicist, and Dr. Fry a mathematician. Sabine is a great communicator of all denomination of science. I would like to find a female KZbinr who focuses on civil and mechanical engineering. If anyone reads this far, and can recommend someone, I'd be grateful.

[@Phill0old]

Oh good grief how much virtue signalling can you fit in one post?

[@Quadr44t]

14:45 I didn't know this, but I was thinking it due to the image prior to Sabine mentioning it. It looked like it was physical, not pigment-based. Neat!

[@echodelta9336]

Happy Womens Day Sabine you are such an inspiration 💕

[@paultraynorbsc627]

Wonderful Sabine who said you didn't have a good sense of Humour 👏👏

[@DrDeuteron]

when you plot 1000 different things, you get about three 3-sigma signals, right?

[@SabineHossenfelder]

Roughly correct, yes...

[@edwardgatey8301]

Saw that in an airborne ‘asbestos’ fibre sample recount graph: looked like a photo plate of a section of stars in the night sky. They had the audacity to estimate a straight line through the garbage and claim that they had almost no variation in fibre counts! Probably still have that cow patty graph in my records!

[@lz43p15]

Years ago in our factory we passed from 3 to 6 sigma in order to reach the breakthrough in reliabity.

[@colingallagher1648]

thanks for your stuff

[@kurakuson]

The Hadron Collider looks too big to place in Scotty's engineering room.

[@brothermine2292]

Put it in the Doctor's tardis.

[@edwardgatey8301]

Scotty would fix it. MacGyver something up.

[@rizadervisoglu]

This was fantastic! We will "just" use the wake-field to boost the speed of a Proton to reach the Boron and we have what we need! One episode miracle!

[@saarangsahasrabudhe8634]

11:55 One of the author's name in the wood paper is Joseph Stalin???

[@nexnax8337]

Mayby that poor guys parents were communists.

[@JorgetePanete]

reversed, but yeah 🇷🇺

[@GururajBN]

"being famous for a quadrillianth of a second"! "Who doesn't feel a little mousy every now and then?" - These are the Sabinesque quips which I look forward to. Science come next! Many thanks.

[@JamesLaserpimpWalsh]

Thanks Sabine. Great vid as ever.

[@itowmyhome797]

Thank you

[@hussainainyya7444]

Thank's for what you do weekly,,, always keep us up to date,,,, I really appreciate that

[@sithkhan]

Imagine Tim Wakefield having this significant of a contribution to particle physics!

[@douglasstrother6584]

Wakefield earns his 200th career victory kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKXJmGiMabx7qpo

[@douglasstrother6584]

Toss in a little Rick Wakeman, too: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZmbOaXeder2Njq8

[@Robert-cx6ls]

It’s so little here I understand, but it’s fun listening to Sabine 😂

[@frankhaese_DrHaeseGroup]

Hi Sabine: I love your humour and way of explaining science topics.

[@phildurre9492]

gotta love these wrap up’s of recent papers. you just won a subscriber!

[@mqwersly]

your jokes are absolutely abhorrent. please never stops making them, i love them ❤️

[@dougg1075]

This news format is great.

[@G4gazhotmail]

You talk about all the stuff I love, I love hearing new things on science and technology

[@bpetersson5024]

The subject of the magnetic fields in the cosmos reminded me of the video interview you did with Subir Sankar at Oxford and I went back to watch it. It was even more fascinating the second time and although he covered a lot of material in depth that takes a while to digest, its worthy of a repeat so that everybody gets to see it. The issue of data interpretation and not reaching the 5 Sigma level in data analysis before publishing something is really interesting because it puts in questions a lot of science assumptions. The fact that people assume that the cosmos is isotropic, is interesting because it hasn't been proven to be true..thank you Sabine for all the great work and congrats on the 785K subscribers!

[@wonderings8973]

If anyone remembers the Google Tech Talks, fusion was one of the subjects covered among the early ones. It's how I 1st learned about hydrogen-boron fusion from Eric Lerner, the history of fusion research from Dr Robert Bussard & the hopes for thorium energy from Kirk Sorenson

[@patrickdegenaar9495]

Great work Sabine! We need more summaries like this of broad scientific discoveries... there is only so much time in a day, and it is impossible to read all the scientific literature.

[@eytansuchard8640]

Hi Sabine. For me it is a great wonder why not to look at scattering angle anomalies in LHC more than to look for new resonances. For example, at high energies Nu_Tau + e -> Tau + Nu_e at energy > 3 TeV according to a paper by William Marciano from 2004. Looking for scattering anomalies in such interactions can reveal new physics. Low energy neutrinos obviously bounce back from atoms, as was experimentally shown in 2017 by Juan Collar. In PeV energies the neutrinos are expected to smash the nuclei they interact with, however, it is a question if they can bounce back from an electron. At least an electron neutrino might bounce back even if no theoretical model predicts such an interaction. In such cases, deviation of the possible scattering angles from the Standard Model are indicative of a new physics.

[@mariodegroote6756]

i learn a lot here, i pounder a lot here, i dream a lot here, i put myself in question here. the all seeing eye of sabine, i just cant escape and start ask questions. hihi, respect for your work sabine!

[@mykldean]

Thank you Sabina

[@OH8STN]

Your videos are a breath of fresh air 👍🔆

[@soradero]

The way Dirty Diana started playing in my head as long as she said "that night with Diana"

[@karimdelakarim]

Love you Sabine.

[@justincase5272]

Ahh, Sabine. Last video of the evening! Alas, I'll have to wait until the morning when my brain is working once again.

[@wowfmomf6126]

If we assume that time dilation is a slow in events processes and causality instead of a change in time it's self and say that light is not affected by this. Could we make the same calculations.

[@Arturo-lapaz]

Actively engaging with the "materials" water and Co²: in short 1.47 grams Co² get caught through the stomata (of leaves) to combine with water, in a while, where it came from, produces in five cycles (H-C-O-H)⁵ and O and methyl (H-C-H) summed: H12 C6 O6 called glucose or simply grape sugar a twisted molecule . now where the materials came from : The green grape condenses humidity from the air, through osmosis passes through the cellulose wall, well partly some is used as above . This wall has the stomata where the air loses part of its Co², 1.47 gram for every gram of grape sugar produced, which drifts into the interior of the grape mixes with the water : The Romans convert that to wine. Of course that requires energy ... from light: 2 spectral bands in the blue and also 2 spectral bands in the red, the remaining , the green and abit of yellow, get rejected, mostly diffusely reflected: Ah the grape in sunlight is a brilliant green, as every body knows. Summary: Out of the 0.49 gram Co² per m³ air, for every gram sugar (and cellulose, etc) 1.4666 gram Co² is sequestered from the air, a natural ancient way nature decarbonizes the air. Why reinvent the wheel, I mean the extraction of the symmetrical molecule o=C=o, with 2 bending vibration modes, vertical and horizontal wich resonates with a photon of a wave length of 15 microns, 666 waves/cm, Infrared peaking at about 260 K black body radiation. If it was at 10 micros, the temperature would be according to Wiener, 289Kelvin

[@Arturo-lapaz]

Ah correction The displacement law is due to Wilhelm Wien, not Wiener

[@arturoeugster7228]

I have a problem with the 260 K peaking Temperature. should that not be the peak radiation density that peaks? I realize that Wien's law is fundamentally an approximation, because , unlike Planck the derivation is using classical physics. A good description of the physics relating the different parameters maximized is in Wikipedia under Wien's displacement law, where the derivation starts with Plank's law. Appreciate a clarification. The parameter "x" there is 3.920 and ⅔ thereof actually yields the 261.4

[@arturoeugster7228]

You failed to mention the other active vibration mode,.meaning a dipole is formed, there the C vibrates asymmetrical between the oxygen atoms, in context that this is just a model, simplified to avoid the actual quantum electro dynamics. The resonant wave lenght is 4.27 microns in the near IR., This is in the tail end of the solar IR, by a factor of 4, meaning that radiation density in the average cancels the Co2 emission.

[@KeithCooper-Albuquerque]

Very interesting video this week, Sabine! Thanks as always!

[@NeoShameMan]

Laser in ultra violet is also a great thing for semi conductor fab, where current euv tech is extremely expensive.

[@Dcassimatis]

Sabine, it'd be really interesting if you could explore how direct fusion could be a quicker avenue for practical use in power plant,... I would love to see your take on this.

[@41alone]

More information might have been presented in this time block but I don't know how. Very interesting and informative.Thx

[@purnadhara108]

i loved the meta joke and really appreciate the deadpan delivery

[@YodaWhat]

15:06 has two very interesting graphs: Reflectance beyond 100%!

[@jc6218]

You nailed that hummingbird daddy joke. 🤣

[@prydin]

I’m just here to say how much I enjoy these broadcasts. Relevant topics mixed with corny nerd humor. What’s not to love?

[@backyard4465]

Sabine with respect to reaching the requirements to perform PB11 fusion you have overlooked the accomplishments of LPP fusion, lead by Eric Learner, with its focus fusion device, Deep Plasma Focus.