TEDxSF - Dr. Edward Moses - Synthetic Stars and the Future of Energy

Dr. Moses is internationally recognized in laser and optical sciences. He received a B.S. in 1972 and Ph.D. in 1977, both in Electrical Engineering, from Cornell University. He holds several patents in laser technology, fusion and fission energy, and computational physics. He has received many honors, including the Fusion Power Associates 2008 Leadership Award, the National Nuclear Security Administration Defense Programs Award of Excellence, the Memorial D.S. Rozhdestvensky Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Lasers and Optical Sciences, and the R&D100 Award for the Peregrine radiation therapy program. Dr. Moses is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of SPIE and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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[@lineikatabs]

"And now we have a sun on earth. I think that's cool"... dude, that's PHENOMENALLY AWESOME.

[@user-cd4bx6uq1y]

10 months ago, 33 comments, a joke? This is a TED channel!

[@JanieMartinSings]

Where is the wonderful talk you gave to kids years ago and the video showing the pyramid and how it all works. Janie

[@ahmadzaimhilmi]

It's 10 years today. Have we got any prototype yet?

[@ur_moms_favorite]

I know this is a very old video but I’m currently doing the NCSS program with Patricia Baisden and we got to see although through zoom how NIF works It would be a dream to one day be able to work on this and hopefully in my lifetime it’ll be accomplished

[@badlanderlitchfield8977]

Synthetic stars And the Future of Energy... an acrostic for the acronym SAFE.

[@emikochan13]

@AwakenAmerica there are 1.35 x 10^18 metric tons of water on earth. We aren't running out any time soon using a tonne a year to power countries. Helium is a noble gas too, completely harmless to everything. You can recover water from any other planet, moon or comet too (hydrogen and oxygen are incredibly common in the universe, so water is too, even though it's mostly ice), the power that fusion will grant us will let us much more easily travel the solar system.

[@AuntieInari]

I think his point in mentioning Africa was to point out that in trying to improve their own situation, they're turning to coal based energy production because it's cheap. But it's destroying the environment. By perfecting commercial fusion, those coal based energy plants could eventually be replaced by fusion plants. In the long run, they will produce far more energy, far cheaper, and not damage the environment in the process

[@murphyld66]

I guess they got the foundation problem "squared" away so that the lasers line up as they are supposed to.

[@importfilta]

I would invest everything I have and will have if everyone else also did to get this shit going and complete in 5 years!

[@pparker768]

What man in nz ? I live here and don't know this story. Please post details.

[@drizzt3737]

really? so how did you hear about it?

[@muleteammate]

While this was an interesting video, I am writing this comment 2019 and the video was released in 2010. There is no pilot scale project in place now and the idea is still just a laboratory curiosity. I believe this approach comes from a fundamental misunderstanding of how stars operate. They are not gigantic controlled nuclear fusion explosions. Their are electrical discharge phenomena occurring in the plasma of the solar atmosphere. Fusion is occurring in the electrical discharging plasma of the photosphere. The electrical energy is fed into the Sun via Birkeland currents from our local spiral arm of the galaxy. Fusion energy created in the photosphere is added to this interstellar circuit. Fusion on Earth should be pursued as a process within a plasma discharge, not with trying to force an inherently explosive phenomenon into behaving as an energy source. It would be like trying to develop a power plant by sequentially detonating small beads of TNT. The SAFIRE project (look it up in your favorite search engine) has actually built a "Star in Bottle", in a laboratory. It is does not require massive government monies to do this, either. It's a privately funded project. They have employed the physics of magnetohydrodynamics, not fusion explosions. They have observed fusion products in this stable solar atmosphere made in a laboratory, higher atomic weight than simply helium. These nuclei have been detected in their mass spectrometer. It is possible that they have actually fused materials all the way up to barium. Barium is atomic number 56, far beyond iron, atomic number 26. The Standard Model predicts iron is the end of the road, the biggest nucleus that a stars undergoing nuclear fusion in their cores can make. They have to wait for a "super nova" to create nuclei heavier than iron. Using the wrong "theory" for how stars operate has led to these brilliant scientists chasing an unobtainable goal for projects such as these. And, they are horribly expensive and complex.

[@naimdilli]

Will we ever get more than we put in?

[@magneticmotor6762]

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[@dplop123]

Aintiant rules mate..were doin over unity all the time..just look on here for free energy.anyway this is fusion unlimited..like the sun..this aint high school..

[@AuntieInari]

I don't dispute the fact that someone will be doing their best to get filthy rich off this. I'm simply saying that villages which had no power at all before, may finally be able to get electricity (even if they can barely afford it) without poluting the environment with coal waste. The problem of rich business owners abusing labor and paying slave wages is an entirely different matter for us to solve. But we never will if we all choke to death on polution.

[@shazza1621]

A man in NZ built an engine that ran completely on water about 20 years ago.... His invention was well documented and he warned that the oil companies were out to get him...... Cut a long story short he went missing off the face of the world and so did his invention and all his work.

[@romliahmadabdulnadzir1607]

Miniature Sun on earth found in the Ancient Egyptian pyramids are some of the most impressive structures built by humans in ancient times. Many of the pyramids still survive today for us to see and explore. We could revived those miniature sun technology on earth by deeper understanding of nuclear fusions and fission at the Sun's level and transform to a miniature level that may produce and supply power. Some of the earlier pyramids, called step pyramids, have large ledges every so often that look like giant steps. Archeologists think that the steps were built as stairways for the pharaoh to use to climb to the sun. We don't know why we have such giant steps towards the direction of the sun. Sun, like people, change with age and eventually die. For people, the cause of aging is the deterioration of biological functions. For a Sun, the cause is the inevitable energy crisis as it begins to run out of nuclear fuel. The Sun is burning up the hydrogen in its core. The helium "ashes" left behind are denser than hydrogen, so the hydrogen/helium mix in the Sun's core is very slowly becoming denser, thus raising the pressure. This causes the nuclear reactions to run a little hotter. The Sun brightens.They are always growing and burning their fuel ever faster, until something stops them. There is no long-term equilibrium for a red giant. Steps were built as stairways for the pharaoh to use to climb to the deeper study of the evolution of the Sun and capture them as a miniature Sun on earth.

[@pierebean]

meanwhile At ITER, not ready until 2080....

[@xilinx777]

What about Alien visitations, real or hologram projection? I'm switching of my LGN - primary visual cortex and make journey to V761 Centauri. "Imagination ... is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. by Emc2 guy

[@mildot5482]

Do you think that if you invent this technology alone in USA .. the world could use it ..? no way It would be the biggest secret in the world

[@donaldhobson8873]

The people commenting here are unusually ill informed and rude. If you want insight look away now.

[@troypetryk2043]

yeah i only had to look at 10 comments below and i agree these people do not thave hope for humanity

[@jerrykobylt1]

NOT looking to get rich and powerful

[@giovannifoulmouth7205]

Cite or get out