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How Nuclear Fusion Can Benefit Us … TODAY!

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Undecided with Matt Ferrell

Undecided with Matt Ferrell

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@UndecidedMF
@UndecidedMF Жыл бұрын
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@mudfossiluniversity
@mudfossiluniversity Жыл бұрын
We created Muons and electron showers using a field crushing venturi and pulsed lase....all we want is the Electrons and we separated them.We can collect them at the point they are free of the Muon...
@bartroberts1514
@bartroberts1514 Жыл бұрын
Fusion research is useful and beneficial. Fusion commercial energy research is a terrible fraud that cannot succeed because of the laws of Physics and of Engineering. A well-balanced video. The ad was better than the fusion bit. Remember CARDIE: curtail fossil extraction 2%/month and emission, avoid especially methane; replace and shut down fossil activities; drawdown and increased conservation; energy efficiency improvement 8%/year.
@WolfeSaber
@WolfeSaber Жыл бұрын
​@@rezrow3521A theoretical science, unlike what happened with nuclear.
@anothermike4825
@anothermike4825 Жыл бұрын
Wait, they had solid state hydrogen storage? @8:00 minutes. Isn't that what Bob Lazar used in his Hydrogen powered corvette?
@WolfeSaber
@WolfeSaber Жыл бұрын
@@anothermike4825 They used a metal that'll be infused with hydrogen. This channel has talked about that type of future hydrogen storage.
@michaelharvey7613
@michaelharvey7613 Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much. As a nuclear medicine technologist. I cannot express the importance of isotope production in the world. 177 Lutetium production is very important. Thank you again for this insight.
@Desert-edDave
@Desert-edDave Жыл бұрын
@wbass243
@wbass243 Жыл бұрын
"As a general concept" Who would have thought the race to Fusion energy has the ability to aid in the cure for cancers
@Seventhviper
@Seventhviper Жыл бұрын
Too many people are missing the point. Fusion itself is not "10 years away" its been done 1,000s of times already. Fusion that produces net positive energy output is another matter altogether, but this video isnt about that! It doesn't matter whether there's a net energy output if thats not the goal! This video is about a reactor that produces medically useful isotopes in a small enough package it can be deployed in many more locations than is currently practical/economical, so that more patients can have access to life-saving healthcare
@UndecidedMF
@UndecidedMF Жыл бұрын
Bingo!
@ariellazovic1815
@ariellazovic1815 Жыл бұрын
Of course, but i imagine that this kind of developments could attract more investment to fusion research, and further accelerate the trend... @UndecidedMF we are already waiting for that extra footage!!
@nomore-constipation
@nomore-constipation Жыл бұрын
My thoughts exactly on the video. I'm blown away by the size of the device tbh I'm no spring chicken but I never thought about this happening in my lifetime. The advancements in technology, whether it be in engineering or science etc is mind-blowing My kids growing up always asked what they could do for a living. Imagine trying to explain this as your desired career choice. I'll definitely be sharing this with the next generation. Even if they are in early education. It's seriously never too early to start. 😊
@Naokarma
@Naokarma Жыл бұрын
@@nomore-constipation This type of stuff is exactly why being an astronaut used to be the most desired career. The discussion on the technical side would go over the head of anyone too young, but the basics and overall ideas (plus the flashy purple lighting, of course) should be enough to enchant anyone, I feel.
@FFNOJG
@FFNOJG Жыл бұрын
Look up the company Helion! they have a Fusion model that is different from everyone else, and I believe when they scale up net positive Fusion energy will become a Reality!
@jopo7996
@jopo7996 Жыл бұрын
Fusion may be 30 years away, but luckily, Thai Fusion is only 30 minutes away.
@bettyswallocks6411
@bettyswallocks6411 Жыл бұрын
Jazz Fusion has been here for years and it’s really energising.
@putinscat1208
@putinscat1208 Жыл бұрын
I prefer human fusion.
@TheVoidSinger
@TheVoidSinger Жыл бұрын
For nuclear medicine this is a HUGE game changer that could move the options available at limited university scale facilities out to roughly any large city. There's also a similar but more limited potential spread for university research moving to smaller less central campuses. 0.2MW is nothing to sneeze at for requirements but it's vastly more bubdgetable than the current standards and requirements in all metrics from area to support, to of course cash.
@UndecidedMF
@UndecidedMF Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing!
@matthewmusson3473
@matthewmusson3473 Жыл бұрын
@@UndecidedMF It's like Hot Fusion and Cold Fusion combined.
@ryanrichter357
@ryanrichter357 Жыл бұрын
200kW is still less than 2 teslas charging (at their maximum rate). Sure its a lot of power but we have proof that it is doable just based on the supercharger systems that are already being built.
@captsorghum
@captsorghum Жыл бұрын
Vast improvement from the 1.21 gigawatts required by the original Mr. Fusion. Although the output is certainly much lower.
@ahmetmutlu348
@ahmetmutlu348 Жыл бұрын
200kw is not that much for industrial scale.. 3-4kw ~ is awerage home upper limts. 200kw/mounth is awerage home usage total . its not that high from lots of perspectives... and it seems it doesnt need 200kw x more ten one hour it seems. So mostlikely needs total energy less then one house uses a mounth ...
@saintsnick
@saintsnick Жыл бұрын
Electrostatic confinement was invented by Filo Farnsworth in the 1960's, the inventor of the cathode ray tube television system. But ITT bought the patents and buried the technology for 30 years. The original device is called the Farnsworth Fusor. He successfully fused deuterium atoms as determent by the presence of a neutron output on his kitchen tabletop. This technology has so many avenues of potential. Tokamak, look out!
@rklauco
@rklauco Жыл бұрын
I think this is by far the best fusion video - real life usability right now, not in 10 years. This is amazing, thanks!
@rashkavar
@rashkavar Жыл бұрын
Very cool. We've come a long way since Chalk River when I was a kid. Chalk River was a Canadian fission reactor setup that produced some power but was mostly geared toward producing medical isotopes. These were longer half-life isotopes used in things like medical imaging devices, stuff you can transport long distances without having to worry about the entire sample becoming unusable...stuff like the Cesium-137 imaging source that salvagers who had no idea what they had found opened up in Goiania, Brazil. (if you're not familiar with that story and are ok with hearing really fricking grim stories, Kyle Hill has an excellent video on the disaster) I was lucky enough to have a tour of the facility in the late 1990s, back when nuclear reactor staff let people come in, stand on the reactor, and look through the tiny super-thick leaded glass port at the Cherenkov radiation's eerie blue glow. Back when nobody thought there would be a security issue with that. (My parents have since been on another trip in the region and even the highway signs saying where the reactor is have been removed, so...yeah, they want zero interaction with the public now, which sucks because that tour was far and away the highlight of the entire 2 week holiday to Ontario and Quebec. Back then it was producing something like a third of the world's supply of medical isotopes - not sure if that included the short half-life ones or just the more stable stuff used for imaging...not sure they even used the short half-life stuff for anything other than experimental research at places like UBC (where Tom Scott's video on the medical isotope speedway is), but it was shut down in 2018, as it was a facility established in 1944 and most of its major facilities like its reactor were built in the 40s and 50s. So...yeah, when I say we've come a long way since Chalk River, I'm literally referring to the first couple of generations of nuclear technology. I would be shocked if the reactor and all its associated plumbing were not still there - it's been 5 years since the shutdown, but taking apart a nuclear reactor safely is what one calls a long term project.
@gardencompost259
@gardencompost259 Жыл бұрын
This is really good. I have prostate cancer, and am in a study using Lu 177. Hopefully it can reduce the time and cost of Lu 177, and other isotopes for medicine.
@ravenmad9225
@ravenmad9225 Жыл бұрын
Good luck with the treatment.Hope it all goes well.
@steverichmond7142
@steverichmond7142 Жыл бұрын
I am amazed at the small size of nuclear fusion equipment having worked for BNFL at several of their UK plants.
@IDoNotLikeHandlesOnYT
@IDoNotLikeHandlesOnYT Жыл бұрын
Fission can happen in small apparatus too-e.g., nuclear bombs, or just the demon core. But doing fission controllably and safely, and extracting energy from it, takes a lot more equipment (and the same will apply to fusion, though more for some techniques than for others). Also, many processes are more efficient at larger sizes, and fission power generation seems like it would be one of those.
@andrewferguson6901
@andrewferguson6901 Жыл бұрын
It's like turning lightning into a small static shock. But with the sun
@mathiaslist6705
@mathiaslist6705 Жыл бұрын
As for tritium production it might be just a side effect to catch escaping neutrons with a lithium blanket. It would be just a minor source of tritium. There are so many fission reactors around which could be used for that and they have far higher neutron outputs. What they sell with this fusion reactor are medical isotopes which are sold by milicurie or in other words just there radioactivity because no chance you can put them on a scale. Judging by how inefficient fusors work it's unlikely they even produce a gramm of tritium in a year.
@HorzaPanda
@HorzaPanda Жыл бұрын
My supervisor at university destroyed an autoclave by removing the bolts in the wrong order so I definitely understand numbering them on that gasket XD
@CeresKLee
@CeresKLee Жыл бұрын
It can produce tritium! The Dept. of Energy and those agency of other nation will be so interested. It is a rare resource that they must replenish in every fusion bomb in existence as it has a half-year of 12 years.
@CharlesBrown-xq5ug
@CharlesBrown-xq5ug Жыл бұрын
I believe that fusion plasma can be stably confined with a row of superconducting magnetic rings like 45 rpm music records stacked on a long spindle with gaps between them that deploy a high voltage electric field. The spindle can be the ceramic hollow vacuum chamber housing the plasma. The plasma is confined radially by the magnetic field and axially by the electric field which is grounded in the center of the row and made increasingly positive both up and down the row by wires to the rings. The nuclei are repelled to the center. Many electrons escape at the ends but that is advantageous. A straght hour glass shaped magnetic field. The constrictive curvature along a straight axis is the most stable shape I know. The electric ffield is needed to complete the confinement by blocking end losses. Aloha
@lis7742
@lis7742 Жыл бұрын
I'm really excited about this! If you have a lot of information and footage left, could you please make it into a mini series? 🙌
@lis7742
@lis7742 Жыл бұрын
What kind of new type of scam spam is this? Get out of here.
@philurbaniak1811
@philurbaniak1811 Жыл бұрын
👍👍 Sounds like really useful stuff, awesome potential! Imagine, one day, one team could be solving Energy AND Cancer in a single lifetime 😮!
@Katia413
@Katia413 Жыл бұрын
TAE is using their accelerator technology to treat Stave IV head and neck cancers. Early tests have shown a lot of promise. They're also working on power management systems for electric vehicle mobility and smart electrical storage.
@owennovenski4794
@owennovenski4794 Жыл бұрын
Beautifully presented and equally appreciated
@TolisOnLine
@TolisOnLine Жыл бұрын
You struck gold in the UK. Many videos to be made. Can't wait to see them.
@SearinoxNavras
@SearinoxNavras Жыл бұрын
Won't a system this small and cheap also make it possible for bomb-makers to make Pu-239 without needing to build an entire nuclear reactor or rely on industrial-scale enrichment for U-235?
@memofromessex
@memofromessex Жыл бұрын
This is really great stuff! I would love to see and hear more.
@chlistens7742
@chlistens7742 Жыл бұрын
thyroid cancer survivor.. i had to wait at radiology for 1 hour wile FedEx (yes it went through FedEx) on a special transport to get the radiation they treated my cancer with
@UndecidedMF
@UndecidedMF Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing.
@WiggyB
@WiggyB Жыл бұрын
Great video. And superb to see tech from this side of the pond being showcased. Looks like you had an amazing trip.
@matthewstreacker7402
@matthewstreacker7402 Жыл бұрын
I KNEW fusion would have benefits for practically “printing” matter needed for different things! I think at somepoint we will be able to print a lot of materials needed for every day things
@jogon1052
@jogon1052 Жыл бұрын
These videos are so good and informative. Thank you very much for making them.
@kuromad
@kuromad Жыл бұрын
I am really envying the people who are smart enough to work on such technology that will actually better people's lives and possibly the entire world. I work in the technical side of healthcare myself, but I feel that my work is more about keeping the 'real doctors' happy and not really aid in the process of helping our patients.
@arlandi
@arlandi Жыл бұрын
'Happy' doctors will treat their patients better. Don't worry, your job does help the patients.
@danielmcgee8637
@danielmcgee8637 Жыл бұрын
and we thank you for what you do 🫶♾️
@henrycarlson7514
@henrycarlson7514 Жыл бұрын
So Wise , Thank You . A fine example of why research is so important , I hope they work and can be scaled
@wolfreicherter748
@wolfreicherter748 Жыл бұрын
nice to see the Video finally. Thank you Matt
@mikeconnery4652
@mikeconnery4652 Жыл бұрын
Definitely gets wow factor. Excellent video.
@Dan-Simms
@Dan-Simms Жыл бұрын
Very cool, I really enjoyed this series. See ya in a few days on Trek in Time.
@UndecidedMF
@UndecidedMF Жыл бұрын
Thanks, Dan! See you on Friday. 😜
@dosgos
@dosgos Жыл бұрын
Follow up videos on Astral would be interesting. Maybe including your preparation to get up to speed & more details on potential applications. Fusion energy power plants are interesting but commercial deployment in the 21st century is unlikely barring some miracle.
@HaJassar
@HaJassar Жыл бұрын
this absolutely blows my mind! keep it up sir!!
@itspizzatime8622
@itspizzatime8622 Жыл бұрын
this actually got me pretty excited to see this progress. the future is so cool
@D.u.d.e.r
@D.u.d.e.r Жыл бұрын
Truly an amazing discovery and industry gamechanger! Thx for highlighting it through this vid👍
@j.d.4697
@j.d.4697 Жыл бұрын
This is awesome! It will bring fusion even more out of its fringe position.
@TheRealDogfart
@TheRealDogfart Жыл бұрын
Really interesting Matt. Thanks for focusing on it.
@Ken00001010
@Ken00001010 Жыл бұрын
They are smart enough to go for an existing market, medical isotopes. Unlike energy, the price of isotopes from conventional sources will not be dropping in the future, so they don't have to run up a down escalator.
@koiyujo1543
@koiyujo1543 Жыл бұрын
This is gonna be a massive game changer for medicine and the future of getting those isotopes for medicine is very important I'm so excited for the future of this technology not only for our energy production including SMR reactors and stuff but also the medical industry
@CUBETechie
@CUBETechie Жыл бұрын
6:48 approximatly 1billion Times denser than tokamak plasma
@riderpaul
@riderpaul 2 ай бұрын
So cold fusion has been renamed to lattice confinement fusion lol. I'd be curious to see if the cold fusion lattice confinement adds anything. I'm guessing the lattice material would consist of a somewhat magic nucleus so neutrons bounce instead of being absorbed. Then, as in a metal hydride, you can pack in a lot more deterium in a small space then you can with a hot gas, so it's a better target.. Also the lattice material is probably a high melting point metal or ceramic approving it to last longer as a liquid or solid then a hydride or high density deuterium packed molecule such as D2O. I'm imagining that they're also adding some LiBe in the lattice as a neutron multiplier. Of course the yield will be low but they're not trying to produce power. Add in Molybdenum-98 if the target is technicium etc. Makes sense. Seems like a good use of cold fusion :).
@juanpablomastrorilli4180
@juanpablomastrorilli4180 Жыл бұрын
"I forgot about the cooling" - every fusion project I've read about uses creative energy accounting.
@renaissanceman5847
@renaissanceman5847 Жыл бұрын
every single fusion project has a severe true net gain value in the negative range.
@timseguine2
@timseguine2 Жыл бұрын
Your commentary doesn't really make sense interpreted in the context that quote came from.
@matthewvu1088
@matthewvu1088 Жыл бұрын
Looks like Philo Farnsworth fusor is finally being put to use
@EdWood110
@EdWood110 Жыл бұрын
Amazing video! Simple as that. Thank you for the info. Glad that this can be used to treat Cancer... and how it could make it cheaper and more efficient.
@BrodieEaton
@BrodieEaton Жыл бұрын
It feels like it was overnight that we went from fusion reactions being super sci-fi to every company and every group out there pulling it off, and now it's being pulled off in the same amount of space an oven takes up. Mindblowing
@hahtos
@hahtos Жыл бұрын
They talk about neutrons a lot in this video. Neutron generators are old tech. All you need is a water-cooled copper target with a thin layer of titanium on the surface. Then ionize Deuterium gas in an ion source, extract an intense D+ beam of 100-200 keV of energy and shoot the ion beam to the target. The target will load by deuterium (titanium will act as a deuterium sponge) and from there on the incoming energetic D+ ions will fuse with the trapped Deuterium atoms on the target, generating a whole bunch of neutrons. So this video really shows nothing new other than mentions medical isotopes without giving any explanation on how they intend to scale it to commercially feasible levels. Feels more like a group of people riding on the fusion hype and recycling a bunch of old kit they had in the back of the garage.
@joshm3342
@joshm3342 Жыл бұрын
Perhaps the important parameter here is the ENERGY of the neutrons produced. Higher energy neutrons able to create the needed medical isotopes?
@etaaramin9361
@etaaramin9361 Жыл бұрын
@@joshm3342 Eh, fusion is fusion regardless of how you get there. If I understand correctly, the resulting neutrons will have the same energy.
@kindlin
@kindlin Жыл бұрын
@@etaaramin9361 I don't think the point really is fusion. As you pointed out there are other ways to make neutrons, they're just trying to make one of the most efficient and compact methods to make neutrons. I think that's the big whoopie. Also, they showed some fairly massive buildings and apparatuses in this video, are you saying that your described contraption can do what that huge facility can do? These guys are trying to say that theirs can. We'll see.
@etaaramin9361
@etaaramin9361 Жыл бұрын
@@kindlin My response was about neutron energy levels, which as I said sre determined by what is being fused, not how. Spallation is by several orders of magnitude more efficient than any other neutron source, but requires a gigantic particle accelerator. Using braking radiation is a decent compromise - certainly more efficient than a farnsworth fusor, which is of similar size and power draw.
@kindlin
@kindlin Жыл бұрын
@@etaaramin9361 *insert non-explanative jargon here* I still don't know what you're even trying to say. I think you're saying this video is physically impossible. And my response is, well they certainly don't think so. You're explanations have not helped me at all, I guess I've not watched quite enough popsci yet to get all of your terms.
@ChristianBlueChimp
@ChristianBlueChimp Жыл бұрын
You remind me a lot of me Matt. I have a lot of the same interest as you. I'm currently 42 and was at my first Fusion Seminar at Roskilde - Risø facility, when I was around 18 y.o. I was the only one at my age - most had grey hair, but it was really interesting - I've been following along the last 25 years and now is when it gets really interesting. So, almost 30 years later :D I hope to see more breakthroughs and I'm following many exciting projects. So, I guess I just want to say thank you for doing these videos, along with others - all hit my interest barometer.
@unxusr
@unxusr Жыл бұрын
Reactor in a closet! This is truly game changer 🎉. Thanks for making a video about this. ❤
@RemedialRob
@RemedialRob Жыл бұрын
The frustrating thing about Solar Battery systems including RoyPow is how hard it is to get even a basic guesstimate on how much the system would cost. They always want to put you in contact with a salesperson which is so old fashioned and frustrating. Yes it's great to have someone who can answer your questions; no it's not great when the person answering your questions has his income tied up in how much you like his answers and how much you buy because of his answers.
@ewanlee6337
@ewanlee6337 Жыл бұрын
Karen’s trying to use a basic guesstimate to get a discount is partly to blame unfortunately. Some people will jump on any chance to use a mistake to pay less money and get really hostile to force it through.
@RemedialRob
@RemedialRob Жыл бұрын
@@ewanlee6337 No haggle pricing policy would resolve that.
@royhi1809
@royhi1809 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the updates. Medical research will greatly improve with this technology.
@JAR2.0
@JAR2.0 Жыл бұрын
An excellent overview of this very interesting project!!!
@JoePolaris
@JoePolaris Жыл бұрын
Check also Franklin Home Power Batteries , from 13 to 200Kw of Reserves. Great report , this is promising tech . On Energy generation w/Fusion, the type of fuel matters , in some cases the reserves are so small on earth it’s a non starter, how electricity is generated is another.
@smck9798
@smck9798 Жыл бұрын
If you were at Culham on Tritium there's h3at and the UK tritiated waste inventory, there's limited available tritium in ready to use stocks, but a huge amounts of unprocessed tritiated wastes that h3at is designed to extract and recover. If you processed it all you are in the tonnes range, it'd just currently despite a high notional price the demand for tritium isn't there.
@tedbear631
@tedbear631 Жыл бұрын
So cool love it!
@frederickheard2022
@frederickheard2022 Жыл бұрын
I know it’s complex stuff, but this video was very muddled. I’d like to see you take another crack at getting this to your typically high level of clarity. I feel like I owe you a more specific critique: There were a lot of clips of the interviewees running through comparative lists of numbers without much context or explanation of what exactly they were talking about. The significance of the information was very difficult to parse. As a longtime writing teacher, it reminded me of student papers that pack in a lot of citations they know are important but don’t connect them into a single presentation. I don’t mean to nitpick or be condescending. I really would like to understand this technology better, and this video didn’t bring it across as well as your other videos from your UK nuclear tour. Thanks for all the work you do bringing these and other innovations to us online!
@UndecidedMF
@UndecidedMF Жыл бұрын
Really appreciate the constructive feedback. This was a tough one. In earlier versions of the script we went into much more detail on the tech, but it felt too heavy. I was worried about keeping it accessible to a wider audience.
@markvalery8632
@markvalery8632 Жыл бұрын
@@UndecidedMF Not sure what is the script you refer to, but if it is readable, could it just be provided as a link? I would be happy to read a heavy description of this. Thanks for providing this information, I had never heard of this approach.
@CatboyChemicalSociety
@CatboyChemicalSociety Жыл бұрын
LCF and ISOelectric confinement WTF this sounds like Tony's starks arc reactor from MCU!!
@postsurrealfish
@postsurrealfish Жыл бұрын
Of course SAFIRE (the medium heat plasma reactor) has produced the transmutation of elements and some years now and due to be its exceptional results, has moved well beyond this point. It creates its own electromagnetic containments fields (like nature i.e. the sun's atmosphere) and works as soon as turned on and so, doesn't need to smash things together. So it would be good to do a piece on the SAIRE (Solar Atmosphere In Regulation Experiment) and so give all sides of the fusion debate, as it mow not only produces power but also the production of rare earth elements and the very real potential to eliminate radio-active waist.
@michaelhiltz7846
@michaelhiltz7846 Жыл бұрын
I think we are finally getting to the point where our technology is catching up with the physics of fusion. Fusion may currently be 30 years away. But I get the feeling that how much longer we have to wait for fusion to be practical has an exponential decay
@craig265
@craig265 Жыл бұрын
If they knew how to do it gyroscopically it would work 300 increase.
@Mulderfactoring
@Mulderfactoring Жыл бұрын
Great video as always. Love learning technologies. I don't know if you saw, but Enphase and SolarEdge are both releasing a Bi-Directional EV charger for 2024. I'm putting in a large GEO/Solar installation this summe for our family farm and huge old house, we will integrate my car / hopefully my Cybertruck to be our backup power system for our house. Eliminates a Generac or $20,000 worth of backup batteries for us in the future. VERY Excited! Thanks for another interesting and intellectual video.
@UndecidedMF
@UndecidedMF Жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it! And I also saw the news about the bi-directional charging. Very exciting stuff!
@HydrogenFuelTechnologies
@HydrogenFuelTechnologies Жыл бұрын
​@@UndecidedMFlol you are such a TOOL 🔧 😅
@HydrogenFuelTechnologies
@HydrogenFuelTechnologies Жыл бұрын
​@@UndecidedMF go visit Dr Randell Mills of Brilliantlight Power in New Jersey , screw the red coat clowns 🤡 🤣
@HydrogenFuelTechnologies
@HydrogenFuelTechnologies Жыл бұрын
​@@UndecidedMFand stop saying we don't have enough tritium or deuterium, the classified DARPA boyz know that is a LIE. The nazi nerds 🤓 figured out how to manufacture both on demand 100 years ago
@surewhynot6259
@surewhynot6259 Жыл бұрын
@@HydrogenFuelTechnologies you are really sad! cute channel
@CharlsonCKim
@CharlsonCKim Жыл бұрын
the Coulomb force involves electric fields and charged particles. magnets are attracted and repelled via magnetic fields. magnets are intrinsically different from charged particles due to their dipole ("two charge") nature, i.e. magnets always come as a "+ -" pair .
@rumpytumskin9691
@rumpytumskin9691 Жыл бұрын
So what were Fleischmann and Pons doing?
@CharlesBrown-xq5ug
@CharlesBrown-xq5ug Жыл бұрын
I believe that fusion plasma can be stably confined with a row of superconducting magnetic rings like 45 rpm music records stacked on a long spindle with gaps between them that deploy a high voltage electric field. The spindle can be the ceramic hollow vacuum chamber housing the plasma. The plasma is confined radially by the magnetic field and axially by the electric field which is grounded in the center of the row and made increasingly positive both up and down the row. The nuclei are repelled to the center. Many electrons escape at the ends but that is advantageous. Aloha
@TristanWallace-l1c
@TristanWallace-l1c Жыл бұрын
using fission to jumpstart fusion?
@anthonylipke7754
@anthonylipke7754 Жыл бұрын
Could this be used as a neutron ignition source for a fertile material like thorium?
@WilliamHumphreys
@WilliamHumphreys Жыл бұрын
Wonderful. Thank you!
@waltertoki1
@waltertoki1 Жыл бұрын
NASA published lattice confinement fusion results in April 2020 in Physical Review C. See Phys. Rev. C 101, 044610. The NASA paper reports Irradiating a deuterated metal lattice with 2.5-2.9 MeV photons in a setup many times larger then the setup shown in this video. The paper shows a neutron spectrum with peaks around 2.5 and 4 MeV. Has the startup in this video published their neutron spectrum and the radioisotopes they produced??
@brandonwilliams5043
@brandonwilliams5043 Жыл бұрын
Long ways off? What about LLNL? They hit fusion ignition already using a pulse type fusion reactor.
@countbowl
@countbowl Жыл бұрын
Good old Uk, cutting edge science coming out of essentially a block shed
@zasportinsider8439
@zasportinsider8439 Жыл бұрын
Positive Niinii is the best Niinii innit. Great job brother 🎉🎉🎉
@tijljappens7953
@tijljappens7953 Жыл бұрын
The force between two magnets isn't governed by the coulomb force. The coulomb force is a monopole monopole interaction. This is a scalar interaction, scaling like 1/r^2 while The two magnets give a bipole bipole interaction. This is a vector interaction scaling as 1/r^3.
@MattNolanCustom
@MattNolanCustom Жыл бұрын
It's an analogy for the lay-person
@mathiaslist6705
@mathiaslist6705 Жыл бұрын
So, you need not much power output but rather neutrons and small zero power fission reactors have been around for decades. Basically they are doing something with fusion which can be done with fission.
@FFNOJG
@FFNOJG Жыл бұрын
Real engineering did a video on a Fusion company called Helion with a novel fusion design. Until i watched that video i thought Fusion might not happen in my lifetime... but that video changed my mind.
@TheAnachronist
@TheAnachronist Жыл бұрын
Please put the name of the company in the title of the video.
@Trigger-Warning
@Trigger-Warning Жыл бұрын
The whole reason you make these videos is to help startups (with no viable product or service) fleece investors.
@vusiradu5681
@vusiradu5681 Жыл бұрын
Nuclear Fusion how long capacity that can supply the whole country or 3 city can it maintain if they came up plan?
@saimandebbarma
@saimandebbarma Жыл бұрын
It's taking baby steps for now needs few decades until fully advanced, hope that they will harness fusion energy safely & responsibly for everyone's wellbeing! Thankyou 🙏
@aFish315
@aFish315 Жыл бұрын
Well done!
@Psychx_
@Psychx_ Жыл бұрын
1000 neutrons per second with an order of magnitude improvement being within range. Yeah this technology is far from being viable for practical use - thing is, an order of magnitude doesn't do anything here. To produce one mole of Technetium (6 * 10²³ atoms, or 98 grams) via neutron capture, this device would need to run for 6 * 10^19 seconds - that's 2*10¹² years - our solar system won't even last that long, we're talking cosmic timescales here. For the forseeable (30 years+) future, nuclear reactors and particle accelerators will remain the only viable options.
@RMX7777
@RMX7777 Жыл бұрын
Yeah it's not very impressive, especially considering amateurs working in their garages have achieved 1X10^6 neutrons/second.
@ianbd77
@ianbd77 Жыл бұрын
This is an interesting direction of travel, particularly interested in the tritium breeding idea.
@evilpanky
@evilpanky Жыл бұрын
Exactly this!
@bmobert
@bmobert Жыл бұрын
I'm slapping my forehead. The combination of a Farnsworth fusor and lattice confinement fusion is obvious in retrospect but I never would have thought of it. It's so simple and obvious and brilliant. And I feel moronic knowing I didn't think of it and never would have.
@setii2009able
@setii2009able Жыл бұрын
At least you have the knowledge to source some great ideas. I wonder if AI could be programed to simulate and research, at least virtually, the possibile useful connections between different scientific discoveries. It seems we know a lot but the real progress comes when someone thinks outside the box
@mewoozy2
@mewoozy2 Жыл бұрын
Ur kidding..... Cold fusion (lattice confinement fusion via paladium strata) has always had this as the goal for net excess energy generation.... But its been laughed at till NASA up and claimed repeatable results without publishing how they did it.
@bmobert
@bmobert Жыл бұрын
@setii2009able I suspect the answer is yes. In my own experience, good ideas are when you notice that one idea is missing the one thing that a second idea is best at. The "out of the box" part of that equation is allowing that cross-pollination regardless how desperate the origins of the two (or more) ideas. Part of the process is mentally representing the positives and negatives of ideas. Well, AIs already have kilo-dimensional space to represent ideas and hallucination on command. Seems perfect. What's needed is some method of removing good from bad.
@rickhobson3211
@rickhobson3211 Жыл бұрын
I think this brings up an interesting point about fusion. Even though it take care of a huge amount of the fuel waste issue, things are still going to become radioactive. Maybe decommissioning fusion plants will be just as difficult as with fission plants?
@Yezpahr
@Yezpahr Жыл бұрын
Yea I expect this to be a problem too, this is why in the previous video there were robot arms installed inside the plasma chamber to do the maintenance / decommissioning. I don't see that particular idea work with one of these from the video.
@YellowRambler
@YellowRambler Жыл бұрын
? Do you mean MSR [Molten Salt Reactors] which is fission, for taking care of radioactive waist?. A fusion reactor becoming radioactive after being turn off, is directly related to the fuel used, some should have no radioactive residual material once fusion reactor is turned off, others will definitely stay radioactive, it depends on what fuel they can get there fusion reactor to run on.
@Canucklug
@Canucklug Жыл бұрын
Yeah, basically the plan is to lock up the facility for 100 years, then recycle the useful materials for new reactors if they're still relevant and bury the rest 10 feet deep
@RMX7777
@RMX7777 Жыл бұрын
​@@YellowRamblerAll known fuels produce neutrons, which will cause the reactor vessel to become radioactive over time. Even proton-boron fusion, which is considered an aneutronic reaction emits around 1% of its energy in the form of neutrons. This means it's not a matter of if the reactor will become nuclear waste, but when. That being said, it's still a much better option in regards to waste than fission.
@YellowRambler
@YellowRambler Жыл бұрын
@@RMX7777 Interesting these folks claim no radioactive waist from Focus Fusion kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJLNondmndSCg9k Are they wrong or does a plasmoid Z-pinch makes it go away some how?
@lukaslammens9318
@lukaslammens9318 Жыл бұрын
This was super cool to watch! Definitely do more of this later on!
@UndecidedMF
@UndecidedMF Жыл бұрын
Thanks! Will do!
@quantum-inc
@quantum-inc 10 ай бұрын
is that a shunt on the HV feedthrough at 7:28, if so what is the KV and Current and resistance? thanks.
@salec7592
@salec7592 Жыл бұрын
IANA nuclear physicist, so this is probably all gibberish, but anyway: Is there a possibility of three-tier fusion: IEC + LCF + intra-nuclear confinement? The last one would be if you could induce four proton captures by (heavy) nuclei of atoms of the metal lattice, followed by s-orbital electron captures (half as many), producing transmuted elements which would emit one alpha particle to return into stable isotope of starting element. So, indirectly, the lattice would catalyze fusion of four hydrogen atoms into one helium atom.
@winklethrall2636
@winklethrall2636 Жыл бұрын
Way back when Pons-Fleischmann cold fusion was in the news, I imagined it utilized lattice confinement to get the hydrogen atoms to stay close together long enough for fusion to occur. Is this mechanism used here?
@quinnbeasley94
@quinnbeasley94 Жыл бұрын
I wish I was smart enough to research fusion. I want to help get us there faster!
@craigmuranaka8016
@craigmuranaka8016 Жыл бұрын
i want to work for helion
@Buriaku
@Buriaku Жыл бұрын
If it's good enough for medical isotope production, it might be interesting for hybrid fission fusion reactors, I think.
@Dan-gs3kg
@Dan-gs3kg Жыл бұрын
Isn't LCF just the Fleischman-Pons experiment but with higher loading than what was done in the confirmation trails, but similar to what Fleischman and Pons did?
@mrstevecox7
@mrstevecox7 Жыл бұрын
Tritium is also produced in the Thorium fission process, I think
@isaacthek
@isaacthek Жыл бұрын
I got excited when I saw the Farnsworth reactor
@jackreacher6240
@jackreacher6240 Жыл бұрын
Is there a reason, why their workspace looks so cramped ? He had like 4 "complex sciencific test stations" in a 1m² room where Harry Potter spend his childhood.
@SumBrennus
@SumBrennus Жыл бұрын
The way we are going through helium, Farnsworth-Hirche electrostatic fusors may be profitable to create Helium 3 and 4 for industrial Helium needs.... unless we mine it on the moon.
@BJL2142
@BJL2142 Жыл бұрын
My problem is with how long are we all willing to delude ourselves into believing that any improvement will actually be implemented? Corporations like SHELL have stated that they will not use or invest in technologies that dont gurantee an 8-12% return on investment, when considering how cheap solar driven technologies have become then the margin of profit disappears too much for them to consider implementing, so if fusion will set us free then im convinced it wont be utilised because theres no "gate" for someone to extort us so we can get access, couple that with the "councils" that are just lobbyists in disguise i cant see it freeing us from a future of extortion and explotation, my personal opinion on the matter. But if we want to kick corporates arse back into line then we will need cheap open source technologies to finally compete against the monopolies.. and there are a lot of people working on projects to do so.
@economicprisoner
@economicprisoner Жыл бұрын
12:48 Umm: what is wrong with nuclear fission reactors? I think that is what the major hospital in my locality uses.
@steelerfaninperu
@steelerfaninperu Жыл бұрын
I think I wanna buy their stock and if they don't have stock then I wanna know who to call to invest. This kind of commercially viable product is absolutely beneficial to society and your budget, and that's what makes a technology stick. It's this kind of stuff that will propel net-positive fusion forward in the long run.
@synkstar9921
@synkstar9921 Жыл бұрын
Would be cool if it was made fully automated with software so someone in the hospital can choose the isotope and quantity without having to manually punch anything in or understand nuclear physics.
@pepe2907
@pepe2907 Жыл бұрын
Matt, Coulomb force is a force between electrical charges, not magnets!
@isaacgraff8288
@isaacgraff8288 Жыл бұрын
Considering Tritium's cost, and its projected uses, finding ways to just make Tritium would be financially advantageous. Tritium's current cost per gram is $30k.
@D.B..
@D.B.. Жыл бұрын
Yeah, they're gonna want to make that chamber large enough for a person to walk into if they are looking to make any superhumans or hulks.
@Bryanerayner
@Bryanerayner Жыл бұрын
I received PET scans when I was a cancer patient in my teens. I had no idea the cost
@larryp5359
@larryp5359 Жыл бұрын
I hate to be a wet blanket, but I'm pretty doubtful about this one, particularly with respect to energy production. On their website they write they can "confidently produce greater than 1 trillion DT fusions per second within a commercial architecture." I'm guessing this is hypothetical because in the video they only talk about supplying the D (deuterium) and not the T (tritium). Also, I didn't see any facilities for handling the radioactive tritium their vacuum pumps would be removing from the chamber. There would also have to be a lot of neutron shielding around this to keep people safe from this neutron flux. In any case, even if they were producing 1 trillion DT fusions per second, this would only produce 2.8 Watts of output power. Then you'd have to convert that to electricity at about a 35% efficiency, or about 1 Watt of electricity. (10^12 fusions/second * 17.5 *10^6 electron-Volts/fusion * 1.6*10^-19Watt-seconds/electron-Volt = 2.8 Watts) In the video when Dr. Mahmoud Bakr Arby was running the experiment at "higher power" he said that it was producing about ten to the fourth (10,000) neutrons per second, which would give off 7 nano-Watts (DD fusion reactions give off about 1/4 of the energy of DT fusion reactions.) I'm not an expert on medical isotope production, but I'm guessing they will need many orders of magnitude more neutrons to produce useful levels of isotopes. Maybe if they switch to DT it may get them there since the DT fusion rate is much higher than DD.
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