Really great Fusion Industry News update Dr. Cyd!! I share your enthusiasm for the current stage of Fusion power development. It's so great that sites for actual Fusion powerplants are selected and actual down to earth things like Fusion grade steels are being more efficiently made to produce the Fusion powerplants we will soon be building!! Excellent!! Thanks for this great update Dr. Cyd! Exciting Times!!
I would be really interested to hear about the superconductor magnet use in Tokamak Energy's project. It sounds like they have come close to holding the reaction in a tokamak.
It's good news, that Commonwealth Fusion is building its first power plant in VA. This seems VERY optimistic since the SPARC facility isn't yet functional. I'd like to know more about how they've grown so confident. Now, isn't the location's nearness to those AI datacenters also helpful if they're going to use AI to run the facility? Or can they run the AI on local hardware in the plant?
Whilst I agree with the other commentators here that any progress on fusion is exciting, let alone what we see, are we just swapping one geopolitical dependency for another. Do we need exotic materials to assemble one of these plants? Where do we get them?
I'm excited about the CFS plant, but how sure are they it's going to work? I see everyone else is still testing their own ideas; is CFS really that far ahead of the game that they're ready to build a plant that will deliver electricity to the grid? What's their secret sauce?
Our secret sauce (not actually secret) is high temperature superconducting (HTS) tape, which lets us make magnets much more powerful and thus smaller. That in turn means our tokamaks are more compact, faster to build, with more economical power. We still have plenty to prove - our SPARC tokamak to demonstrate net fusion power (Q>1) is still under construction. But we're confident, backed by a peer-reviewed research that ensures independent scrutiny, and have been ticking through our to-do list. E.g. our TFMC magnet prototype test in 2021 and CSMC in 2024. Search for "CFS publications" to see highlights of our peer-reviewed research.
Exciting news, I feel like as the months go by we're hearing more and more promising things around Fusion, I hope it means the meme of it being "only 20 years away" will disappear soon.
Fusion is still two generations away. At best. We can achieve it in thermonuclear weapons because of the massive influx of energy provided by fission. But that environment is not achievable on an industrial scale.
Love the idea of fusion, it will be transformative. However, at 70 y.o., I’m doubtful I’ll live to see commercially scaled fusion. It’s always 30 years away, and I’m unlikely to survive that long, so hurry up!
We're hurrying! Some skepticism is fine - just make sure it's based on an up-to-date assessment that includes our actual achievements, not just the problems from past decades. E.g. our magnet prototypes, construction of SPARC tokamak, magnet factory operating at full throttle, peer-reviewed research. (I work for CFS).
None is saying how they scale it up for economic power delivery even if fusion is achieved , 100s tons super cooled magnets with stupid cool down and warm up times with any detected problem . Is it not the stupidest way to boil water imaginable unless your an engineer wanting a job for life ?
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They're getting there.
Really great Fusion Industry News update Dr. Cyd!!
I share your enthusiasm for the current stage of Fusion power development. It's so great that sites for actual Fusion powerplants are selected and actual down to earth things like Fusion grade steels are being more efficiently made to produce the Fusion powerplants we will soon be building!! Excellent!!
Thanks for this great update Dr. Cyd! Exciting Times!!
Love these updates. Thanks for doing what you do.
Thanks again!
I would be really interested to hear about the superconductor magnet use in Tokamak Energy's project. It sounds like they have come close to holding the reaction in a tokamak.
Keep up the good work, guys! Well done Cyd! How does RAFM bear up better than normal steel?
Love your presentation Dy Cyd! Sometime, you have to share that joke you're grinning about the whole presentation 🙂
His glass is perpetually overflowing. We need more people like him.
Thank you so much!
Can't wait to turn in next show
It's good news, that Commonwealth Fusion is building its first power plant in VA. This seems VERY optimistic since the SPARC facility isn't yet functional. I'd like to know more about how they've grown so confident. Now, isn't the location's nearness to those AI datacenters also helpful if they're going to use AI to run the facility? Or can they run the AI on local hardware in the plant?
Whilst I agree with the other commentators here that any progress on fusion is exciting, let alone what we see, are we just swapping one geopolitical dependency for another. Do we need exotic materials to assemble one of these plants? Where do we get them?
I'm excited about the CFS plant, but how sure are they it's going to work? I see everyone else is still testing their own ideas; is CFS really that far ahead of the game that they're ready to build a plant that will deliver electricity to the grid? What's their secret sauce?
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Our secret sauce (not actually secret) is high temperature superconducting (HTS) tape, which lets us make magnets much more powerful and thus smaller. That in turn means our tokamaks are more compact, faster to build, with more economical power. We still have plenty to prove - our SPARC tokamak to demonstrate net fusion power (Q>1) is still under construction. But we're confident, backed by a peer-reviewed research that ensures independent scrutiny, and have been ticking through our to-do list. E.g. our TFMC magnet prototype test in 2021 and CSMC in 2024. Search for "CFS publications" to see highlights of our peer-reviewed research.
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Yes they are. Tokamaks have had very predictable performance recently and the new superconductors increase predictability even further
Interesting news
Exciting news, I feel like as the months go by we're hearing more and more promising things around Fusion, I hope it means the meme of it being "only 20 years away" will disappear soon.
Fusion is still two generations away. At best. We can achieve it in thermonuclear weapons because of the massive influx of energy provided by fission. But that environment is not achievable on an industrial scale.
Love the idea of fusion, it will be transformative. However, at 70 y.o., I’m doubtful I’ll live to see commercially scaled fusion. It’s always 30 years away, and I’m unlikely to survive that long, so hurry up!
We're hurrying!
Some skepticism is fine - just make sure it's based on an up-to-date assessment that includes our actual achievements, not just the problems from past decades. E.g. our magnet prototypes, construction of SPARC tokamak, magnet factory operating at full throttle, peer-reviewed research. (I work for CFS).
None is saying how they scale it up for economic power delivery even if fusion is achieved , 100s tons super cooled magnets with stupid cool down and warm up times with any detected problem . Is it not the stupidest way to boil water imaginable unless your an engineer wanting a job for life ?
Some bad cuts in there... Seams amateurish. You guys need to do better on your editing to not cut the speaker off mid word.