I'm almost 64 years old and the promise of fusion has always been just "around the corner" but it looks this time it might really be. Keep up the great work and maybe I'll get to see it in my lifetime.
I think the "around the corner" thing exists because the idea of fusion needs selling to investors. You cannot guarantee this technology would work, but you can't tell investors that either. I'm not saying making energy from fusion is impossible, but we can't say it is 100% possible with today's best technology either.
I'm not sure how this company is still below most people's radar - you're literally designing/building the future of energy. The next 10 years will be very exciting.
As far as the public goes, SpaceX has raised the bar for what people expect from a pushing-the-envelope company going from start up to it's first version of its commercial system in just under 10 years. But, they aren't doing as much in the way of new physics. But this is what the public is now expecting.
@Benjamin McCann What is so great about what SpaceX is doing is that they are doing it out in the open. There are updates from one source or another nearly every day. We, the public, don't get barely a glimpse of SLS.
They promised this 50 years ago bud^^.....wake up dude. Look up the Safire Project...the Sun is an Electric Plasma not a Fusion Reactor. #Electricuniverse
Investors will buy control of this project - and bury it. Small scale energy independence does not fit with the environmental pretext of the globalist plan for a borderless world controlled by a one world government.
Idiot. A productive [and cheaper] experiment is the Safire Project #Electricuniverse ...btw the way there is far more Space in your head than out there.
Imagine insulting somebody for speaking positively and being generally excited about somebody. I'm pretty exstatic that we're finally getting close to feasible fusion energy.
@@ronsmith1364 I saw they have a spot open for PhD plasma control engineer, that sounds like a dream job to me! Hopefully tokamaks and similar fusion capable devices become the future.
@@tokamakenergy6400 We have had it for about 100 years - but Governments have suppressed Teslas papers and tech [apart for high level military ofc] Fusion is a huge waste of time, money and effort. The Safire Project has a far better future [potentially if not suppressed ofc]. The Sun is an Electric Plasma not a Fusion Reactor. #Electricuniverse
@@blaze1148 *"The Sun is an Electric Plasma not a Fusion Reactor."* FFS - what in tarnation is an "electric plasma reactor"? Fusion is when two atoms combine to make a heavier atom. Basically, 2 hydrogen atoms = 1 helium, well if they are both deuterium anyhow. WTF would be an electric plasma reaction?
@@fuzzywzhe ....let me help you a little.... ruclips.net/video/cjyBXaslYYs/видео.html ruclips.net/video/ZBInhPFFVog/видео.html ....there....hope it wasn't too painful.
I just love to watch those videos of yours showing the progress that's been made. And I'm looking forward to see all the steps in the way for commercial fusion.
Someone will do it and when it happens, everyone will do it. I'm watching closely for the winner to cross the line and change the world in a moment of time.
Great! Theoretically according to MIT researchers , with a magnetic field of over 14 T will be possible to achieve Q>1 net energy gain , the higher the better, based on their data and knowkedge. I hope it will be with ST F1 ! Great work!
Check this out. Google search "Graphene as a high field magnet", look at all the articles on the first page results. And then ask them if they are using Graphene as their high field magnets. Go to my channel, find Technology Research, go there. Go to the playlists area on my other channel. Find a playlist called "Graphene Twistronics". After that, find a playlist called "Videos with important info to get around my channel". And then "Graphene playlist". Check all the playlists on the channel after that, don't forget to check each playlist description for more. And check the video info under each video that I upload.
Brilliant recap of the first 10 years. I hope that this gets picked up by some of the clean energy channels on RUclips and beyond! Looking forward to more videos on ST40, STF1 and all aspects of making fusion a standard part of our energy generation mix.
Amazing and super exiting to be living in a time like this where talking about fusion energy is not just science fiction but an approaching reality. Keep it up and thank you for your work!
The really interesting part is the potential to use fusion energy for propulsion in space, having a fuel with incredibly high energy density allows for constant thrust navigation. Effectively would mean travel times to distant locations would be below linear. ie a place twice as far may take only 1.6 times as long to get to. I hope I live long enough for the tech to be used this way, I would donate my lifes savings to it.
In ten years from now, it is certain that fusion energy will be practical. Go back 10, 20, 30 years or more and you will see that it always has been and always will be. When I was in high school in the early 60's fusion energy was "just around the corner" and it "would solve all our energy needs." I, for one, learned a long, long, long time ago not to hold my breath for such things. The only fusion energy machine that we can ever tap into is the furnace within our own sun and it has powered life on the earth for over 4,000 million years.
Beautiful! Please start filming your experiments and publishing them - you'll get more investors interested. It's awful that I only now found out about you. Kids in high/elementary schools need to hear about this.
With all the depressing news at the moment, it's heartening to see people working on something which could be a technological game-changer, with potentially huge benefits for the whole of humanity. The very best of luck to you!
Don't be an idiot. .....they promised Fusion Energy 50 years ago....it is dead end Science. Look up the Safire Project.....the Sun is an Electric Plasma not a Fusion reactor. #Electricuniverse
24T! That really is good enough to make power in a sensible-sized machine. It really is looking very good for proving this can actually work. Then we get to the really interesting questions for whether this is going to contribute significantly to the world's energy supply: what's the LCOE cost, and what are the practical issues of running a plant (like what does irradiating the tokamak lining for months on end do to it?) Anyway, top work all. I wish you further success at this impressive rate.
Just think for a moment and I am glad you're excited about 'fusion'. If the energy expended was on Thorium then we would be ridding the world of our nuclear waste stockpiles, slowly to be sure but without making any more fissionable material. Not nearly as sexy are fusion but we would cut the use of petroleum to about a tenth of what it is now. The reactors could be small and decentralized as well. Anyhow, seems to be a pipe dream to pick up from the work done in the 50's where it was scrapped because it would not produce a bomb. Good luck you guys.
yeah, it is extremely sad this isn't being implemented in large scale. All the stored nuclear waste is just free fuel to be converted into less radioactive waste.
I thought they did have a running thorium reactor at some point? But it was cancelled. I don't remember the details but I don't think it has only to do with politics
Spectacular progress from your special team. I wish you all significant success with your spherical sun. More details regarding the means of power extraction would be most welcome. It has been terribly gratifying to watch the proverbial 50 year time horizon shrink to 10, which brings ultimate success inside my own possible lifespan.
SADLY , as an Engineer in another field ... I have always thought that only so much efficiency can ever be achieved at a given scale. Good luck is the best I can offer.
Very well presented history of your company... congratulations on your 10 years mark and best wishes for future. Looking forward to hear about more achievements.
amazing! i always wondered if the tokamaks built by other researchers had to be so gigantic. evidently not!!! i look forward to hearing about your power generation successes.
Bril work guys have that ambition! if it looks viable at the end of the day get in there and make that magic, from what I can see here it looks bob-on. While it makes me wonder how awesome my e-bike would be with these rare earth magnets :-o I bet I could time travel on these! Keep up the stunning work! Small stuff rules!
Best of luck to you guys in your physics and engineering R&D. You seem to have a grounded way of not over-promising to have a commercial reactor in 5 years but to take a realistic first principles approach and finding investors who are in it for the long game.
@@MrZoomZone and I can't help but believe it's real:) ? At 68 years old and all the stuff I've seen in person and experienced whether it was real or not it seems like it to me. I'm curious to think the fact that you made that comment you're aware of something more than most people.
I too would fall in the category of people who instinctively thought fusion was something that needed scale to be efficient. But after this video I think I'm starting to believe in the fact that having an uniform high T field will be easier to achieve in smaller tokamaks. Not yet sure where stellarators fall in this spectrum of fusion energy. Maybe those designs will be greatly helped by the high T magnets Tokamak Energy has developed?
Fusion is determined by pressure and temperature. Temperature is determined by velocity of the ions. Velocity is determined by magnetic field and the scale of the tokamak, which means the smaller the scale, the stronger the field has to be to keep the ions in their curved path. And there is a limit to the strength of the field a certain superconductor can stand before it looses its superconductivity. So the bigger the tokamak the higher the temperature that is achievable with currently available materials. So how can a small machine outperform a bigger one? - Would be my question. My second question is how high the pressure is in this machine.
What a shame there wasn't better communications ... I was that Senior Production Engineer for over 10 years at a Kiwi company that builds bespoke HTS systems... on the day I left I was winding HTS coil number #1000. Our speciality was cryogen-free 20K systems... typical in the 5 Tesla range. The first turn-key HTS 5T system I built in 2006 is still running today in a lab in Germany.
@@420frankp Wow, Frank, how exceptionally useful. We can sink in a ton of energy and get molecules to fuse. Great achievement, well done. Except nobody cares except scientists because what we actually need is a reactor that can produce vast amounts of energy extremely reliably, safely and cheap.
Perhaps you could clear up a misunderstanding I may have? How will the synthesis of radio isotopes be constrained to avoid hazardous residues being created? How will you avoid each of your reactor's sites becoming contaminated with radio isotopes like the Cambridge tokamak's site, which resulted in hundreds of millions in cleanup costs? Or are you going to rely on the small size and therefore costs of your reactor to allow easy containment, cleanup and replacement (disposal) of the entire unit - and it's inevitable radioactive wastes? And, will that effect the duration of the work life that you expect from your best units? Can you convince me, or briefly even simply say my questions are irrelevant because xyz? Do I misunderstand this completely?
Is the plasma stability affected by vibration at all? Are portable tokamak reactors currently feasible in that regard even if dampened? (e.g. a flying or sailing craft)
I had an old friend who worked at Harwell on tokamaks in the early 80s. I asked him then how long before these things start producing more energy than they consume. He reckoned about 2010, at the latest.
Team, Your efforts are deeply appreciated and you all are clearly the rock on which the future of all humanity shall stand. Be that on Earth, in orbit, the Moon, or that of the site of the first Martian colonies, our collective successes will all be a direct result of these most incredible achievments leading to the luxuries "over unity" will obviously afford all of mankind from this generation forward. I look upon your work in awe and and with the eagerness of child-like anticipation of that day, which now seems rapidly approaching, when our collective future will have become more secure than ever before in history. All as a direct result of your obvious drive, will, and desire to snatch from the depths of science fiction ethos and deliver unto mankind its greatest, long-term chance to see the wonderments of what the Universe has in store for us. Though woefully lacking by comparison to the monumental accomplishment of that which it is offered, I speak for the rest of us in offering each of you our deepest of thanks. SIncerely and without hesitation, Max Laing CEO / Project Development ActionCore, Inc.
To me its the relatively small size that makes the most sense. Better for iterative performance increases and fine tuning. The much larger projects might be how the process needs to be to work at scale and maintain efficiencies, but to me when things are at the just getting it to work stage they seem more rigid in design and it either works or fail large with little opportunity to rework the concept.
“High temperature” is a relative term. The earliest superconductors required very very low temperatures. In comparison, more recent ones work at much higher (but still low compared to day-to-day experience) temperatures.
@11:45 .. when people say things like: "hotter than the center of the sun" .. or: "more than the number of atoms in the universe" - I lose interest, because: we have no instruments to test such claims, it's exaggeration at best .. but well done to you-guys for achieving what you did; it's inspiring.
I know you said that you lose interest when people mention "hotter than the center of the sun", please check the Parker Solar Probe, Nasa is very close with it and can collect the data for the sun, the Parker Solar Probe is protected from a lot of heat and radiation. The Parker Solar Probe can go 450,000 miles per hour, and it's already done amazing readings near the sun, there's also another probe from Nasa on the way to the sun that's even better supposedly. Go to my channel, find Technology Research, go there. Find the playlists area on my other channel for all the playlists. Watch all videos from top to bottom in that order. Check for a playlist called "Nasa's idea for the moon, the fastest we've ever gone in space, space propulsion and technologies so far". ------------------------------------------------------------------ Also about the mention of "more than the number of atoms in the universe", I thought this might be interesting to watch, please watch the videos from top to bottom. After you watch all videos, be sure to check out the info, articles and other links in each playlist description on my other channel. This video doesn't seem to allow me to send links, I will give steps. Find a playlist on my other channel called "Videos with important info to get around my channel". Find my other channel's Quantum Computing playlist. This will talk about the number of atoms in the universe, but I do feel you should learn from this. After that, check these other playlists in this order, Quantum Teleportation, The Quantum Internet, Photonic Computing, Spintronics, Quantum Sensors, Archer Materials working with IBM on Graphene with Quantum Computers for accelerating to room temperature, playlist. Also check the Graphene computers for home and starships, playlist. And the Graphene Twistronics playlist.
Something else to check out, do a youtube search for the Voyager 1 and 2 probes, supposedly they are outside our solar system and in interstellar space, "the space between solar systems in a Galaxy".
Congratulations to this teams on this globe how will solved the problem of energy for the hole world. And achieve a more greatest milestone in the future of human beings.
@@richardscathouse Dont know who gave you your physics degree. But most of the reactions that happen in the sun are nuclear. Sure I can say electric when electrons are involved. But the most important thing that helps these chain reactions happen is the force of gravity.
I would guess that the 2T limit refers to the bulk material, which is brittle and prone to magnetic weirdness. This team looks like it is using the HTS tapes: thin layer of ceramic HTS deposited by molecular beam epitaxy on a robust flexible polymer. The material responds totally differently to the high stresses of high fields and can be grown with fewer flaws.
This is what Robert Bussard famously said about Tokomaks: "We have spent many decades, and many billions of dollars of Tokamaks, and so we know a lot about them. And what we know is that they are no damned good." I feel very confident no Tokomak will ever produce a single watt of electric power for any gride anywhere. If you want to waste a lot of money, then build a tokamak - even better, build one which requires 90 tons of liquid lithium to prevent it from killing everyone in the building.
Hi, Please can you ask Dr Kingham if he worked for VG Scientific of VG Ionex ? I am sure I recognize the gentleman, I was an engineer involved with high vacuum and high voltage, test and installation at the time...such a fascinating field to work in, I wish them continued success ...Oh yeah, if they need technicians..where can I get an interview !!
You have a good sense of direction with this much needed form of power, i wish you all the greatest successes. Not to mention how this will help the environment.
I'm almost 64 years old and the promise of fusion has always been just "around the corner" but it looks this time it might really be. Keep up the great work and maybe I'll get to see it in my lifetime.
Don't be an idiot.
Look up the Safire Project.....the Sun is an Electric Plasma not a Fusion reactor.
#Electricuniverse
www.aureon.ca/ How does our Sun work should be the question.
I think the "around the corner" thing exists because the idea of fusion needs selling to investors. You cannot guarantee this technology would work, but you can't tell investors that either. I'm not saying making energy from fusion is impossible, but we can't say it is 100% possible with today's best technology either.
I'm not sure how this company is still below most people's radar - you're literally designing/building the future of energy. The next 10 years will be very exciting.
As far as the public goes, SpaceX has raised the bar for what people expect from a pushing-the-envelope company going from start up to it's first version of its commercial system in just under 10 years. But, they aren't doing as much in the way of new physics. But this is what the public is now expecting.
Read ‘sun in a bottle’ and you’ll know why.
@Benjamin McCann What is so great about what SpaceX is doing is that they are doing it out in the open. There are updates from one source or another nearly every day. We, the public, don't get barely a glimpse of SLS.
They promised this 50 years ago bud^^.....wake up dude.
Look up the Safire Project...the Sun is an Electric Plasma not a Fusion Reactor.
#Electricuniverse
Investors will buy control of this project - and bury it. Small scale energy independence does not fit with the environmental pretext of the globalist plan for a borderless world controlled by a one world government.
World needs your success :) That is as exciting as new space era and space launches to me.
Idiot.
A productive [and cheaper] experiment is the Safire Project
#Electricuniverse
...btw the way there is far more Space in your head than out there.
@@blaze1148 Who hurt you?
@@patrickthepure
....nobody hurt me^^.....i'm just trying to wake people up to the Truth.
imagine researching stuff like this on a moon base or something
Imagine insulting somebody for speaking positively and being generally excited about somebody.
I'm pretty exstatic that we're finally getting close to feasible fusion energy.
As a 2nd year applied physics student this makes me so excited! What a beautiful device.
future employment prospect
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@@ronsmith1364 I saw they have a spot open for PhD plasma control engineer, that sounds like a dream job to me! Hopefully tokamaks and similar fusion capable devices become the future.
Well done. I'm looking forward to see you progress into successful power generation in the near future.
Thank you!
@@tokamakenergy6400
We have had it for about 100 years - but Governments have suppressed Teslas papers and tech [apart for high level military ofc]
Fusion is a huge waste of time, money and effort.
The Safire Project has a far better future [potentially if not suppressed ofc].
The Sun is an Electric Plasma not a Fusion Reactor.
#Electricuniverse
@Pool Bal
exactly - they are chasing Unicorns and Rocking Horse poo.
@@blaze1148 *"The Sun is an Electric Plasma not a Fusion Reactor."*
FFS - what in tarnation is an "electric plasma reactor"?
Fusion is when two atoms combine to make a heavier atom. Basically, 2 hydrogen atoms = 1 helium, well if they are both deuterium anyhow. WTF would be an electric plasma reaction?
@@fuzzywzhe
....let me help you a little....
ruclips.net/video/cjyBXaslYYs/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/ZBInhPFFVog/видео.html
....there....hope it wasn't too painful.
I just love to watch those videos of yours showing the progress that's been made. And I'm looking forward to see all the steps in the way for commercial fusion.
:-) Thanks. We'll keep them coming!
Someone will do it and when it happens, everyone will do it. I'm watching closely for the winner to cross the line and change the world in a moment of time.
Good luck! At this rate we'll have fusion power in as little as 30 years!
I'll sure it'll take them a few years less than 28 years, give or take a decade.
good meme
30 years away forever.
@@NathansHVAC ITER got tired of this meme, so they are going after the walnut with a sledge hammer.
Great! Theoretically according to MIT researchers , with a magnetic field of over 14 T will be possible to achieve Q>1 net energy gain , the higher the better, based on their data and knowkedge. I hope it will be with ST F1 ! Great work!
Which researchers?
achievable in just 30 years!!
BigCooter.com no
@Zapper777
The researchers!
Check this out.
Google search "Graphene as a high field magnet", look at all the articles on the first page results. And then ask them if they are using Graphene as their high field magnets.
Go to my channel, find Technology Research, go there.
Go to the playlists area on my other channel.
Find a playlist called "Graphene Twistronics".
After that, find a playlist called "Videos with important info to get around my channel".
And then "Graphene playlist".
Check all the playlists on the channel after that, don't forget to check each playlist description for more. And check the video info under each video that I upload.
Brilliant recap of the first 10 years. I hope that this gets picked up by some of the clean energy channels on RUclips and beyond! Looking forward to more videos on ST40, STF1 and all aspects of making fusion a standard part of our energy generation mix.
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it.
Thank you for making this video available. The public needs to see what is being done here.
Congratulations on your acheivements thus far, and best wishes for the future.
Your story is an inspiration to those of us who work in STEM.
Thank you so much!
Amazing and super exiting to be living in a time like this where talking about fusion energy is not just science fiction but an approaching reality. Keep it up and thank you for your work!
The really interesting part is the potential to use fusion energy for propulsion in space, having a fuel with incredibly high energy density allows for constant thrust navigation. Effectively would mean travel times to distant locations would be below linear. ie a place twice as far may take only 1.6 times as long to get to.
I hope I live long enough for the tech to be used this way, I would donate my lifes savings to it.
My uncle would have been proud of your achievements and dedication.
Congratulations, another 30 years to go!
In ten years from now, it is certain that fusion energy will be practical. Go back 10, 20, 30 years or more and you will see that it always has been and always will be. When I was in high school in the early 60's fusion energy was "just around the corner" and it "would solve all our energy needs." I, for one, learned a long, long, long time ago not to hold my breath for such things. The only fusion energy machine that we can ever tap into is the furnace within our own sun and it has powered life on the earth for over 4,000 million years.
All the energy man will ever need is right overhead! 🤭🤭🤭🤭
God bless you all and thank you for all your hard work .....
Great! It's so necessary to find new ways of technique and of organization. Here both is achieved. Congratulations! 👍❗
It's incredible to imagine all the adjustments that are made between a prototype and its final iteration.
The whole world is cheering you on and hoping for success 🙌
Beautiful! Please start filming your experiments and publishing them - you'll get more investors interested. It's awful that I only now found out about you. Kids in high/elementary schools need to hear about this.
We're glad you found us :-)
i like the idea of a plywood fusion reactor you get put in the back of your car. eat that ITER
Haha, I see what you are doing. ;D
It was so last WW out of fashion.
It just about sums up the truth of where they are with this dead-end BS.
I'm an Entreprenur, its impressive you can get funding for 10+ years and ongoing...
I'm gonna build my own version of a tokamak. I've got some plywood and with the right team. We will conquer this tech.
I'd say you have an equal chance! 😈
Dude, that multi reel super conductor tape winder thing at 16:03 that could be a whole video. What a beautiful machine.
Hearing the stock jazz drums.....
Today in the BA test kitchen, Claire recreates nuclear fusion using gourmet ingredients!
"Sohla, can you help me with my molecular beam epitaxy..."
I love the vision and expansive thinking of the Slavs.
Expand, please?
Love watching these tokamak innovation and faster progress of fusion energy.
yeah - great comedy.
With all the depressing news at the moment, it's heartening to see people working on something which could be a technological game-changer, with potentially huge benefits for the whole of humanity.
The very best of luck to you!
Don't be an idiot.
.....they promised Fusion Energy 50 years ago....it is dead end Science.
Look up the Safire Project.....the Sun is an Electric Plasma not a Fusion reactor.
#Electricuniverse
@@blaze1148yes, but solar neutrinos are observed. Electric plasmas don't make neutrinos, fusion does.
So happy to see science brain power at work! Good luck guys! Happy plasma cycles!! ;)
Always keep pushing on ! For the human race. Best safe wishes from a Delft University of Technology Engineer!
Had it been 10yrs already?? Wow! Keep up great work and content.
I know! Can you believe it?!
Great brains, great people, great company.
Congratulations! Best luck in the future.
Beautiful story. This is making something of your career.
24T! That really is good enough to make power in a sensible-sized machine. It really is looking very good for proving this can actually work. Then we get to the really interesting questions for whether this is going to contribute significantly to the world's energy supply: what's the LCOE cost, and what are the practical issues of running a plant (like what does irradiating the tokamak lining for months on end do to it?) Anyway, top work all. I wish you further success at this impressive rate.
Check out MITs ARC reactor, they have a lot of ideas on this including FLiBe to both shield the equipment and act as a tritium source.
Just think for a moment and I am glad you're excited about 'fusion'.
If the energy expended was on Thorium then we would be ridding the world of our nuclear waste stockpiles, slowly to be sure but without making any more fissionable material. Not nearly as sexy are fusion but we would cut the use of petroleum to about a tenth of what it is now. The reactors could be small and decentralized as well. Anyhow, seems to be a pipe dream to pick up from the work done in the 50's where it was scrapped because it would not produce a bomb. Good luck you guys.
yeah, it is extremely sad this isn't being implemented in large scale. All the stored nuclear waste is just free fuel to be converted into less radioactive waste.
I thought they did have a running thorium reactor at some point? But it was cancelled. I don't remember the details but I don't think it has only to do with politics
@@magnushem5130
There are difficulties to overcome with molten salt but these are hardly as difficult at reproducing the Sun in your basement.
Spectacular progress from your special team. I wish you all significant success with your spherical sun. More details regarding the means of power extraction would be most welcome. It has been terribly gratifying to watch the proverbial 50 year time horizon shrink to 10, which brings ultimate success inside my own possible lifespan.
SADLY , as an Engineer in another field ... I have always thought that only so much efficiency can ever be achieved at a given scale. Good luck is the best I can offer.
Well that was a bit gloomy....
There is so much innovative potential in GB. Hope that the financial sector does not suck up so much talent
Is this "spherical tokamak" the same design as the "spheromak" found at LLNL in Livermore, California? If different, how does it differ?
I think it comes rather from the original ones: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokamak
Very well presented history of your company... congratulations on your 10 years mark and best wishes for future. Looking forward to hear about more achievements.
Thank you so much 😀
amazing! i always wondered if the tokamaks built by other researchers had to be so gigantic. evidently not!!! i look forward to hearing about your power generation successes.
Bril work guys have that ambition! if it looks viable at the end of the day get in there and make that magic, from what I can see here it looks bob-on. While it makes me wonder how awesome my e-bike would be with these rare earth magnets :-o I bet I could time travel on these! Keep up the stunning work! Small stuff rules!
Amazing work! Looking forward to the near future.
Fantastic progress TE. Loving the videos.
Glad you like them!
Just 20 more years :)
Best of luck to you guys in your physics and engineering R&D. You seem to have a grounded way of not over-promising to have a commercial reactor in 5 years but to take a realistic first principles approach and finding investors who are in it for the long game.
Thank you. Yes, we're serious about this.
As I'm watching this it brings to mind some of the work that David Adair has built and supposedly is working on.
yeah - it is like a giant perpetual motion scam - except the numbers are bigger, the hype is bigger.
@@MrZoomZone and I can't help but believe it's real:) ?
At 68 years old and all the stuff I've seen in person and experienced whether it was real or not it seems like it to me.
I'm curious to think the fact that you made that comment you're aware of something more than most people.
Thx a lot. Keep going !! We need you !!
Great work! Good luck to you all in the future.
Exciting stuff. 15 million degrees wow.
I too would fall in the category of people who instinctively thought fusion was something that needed scale to be efficient. But after this video I think I'm starting to believe in the fact that having an uniform high T field will be easier to achieve in smaller tokamaks. Not yet sure where stellarators fall in this spectrum of fusion energy. Maybe those designs will be greatly helped by the high T magnets Tokamak Energy has developed?
Any use of applying liquid surfaces for plasma facing components for you guys? Or is it not a problem when magnetic field is strong enough?
That is why ITER takes time to build and get it up and running.
Fusion is determined by pressure and temperature.
Temperature is determined by velocity of the ions.
Velocity is determined by magnetic field and the scale of the tokamak, which means the smaller the scale, the stronger the field has to be to keep the ions in their curved path.
And there is a limit to the strength of the field a certain superconductor can stand before it looses its superconductivity.
So the bigger the tokamak the higher the temperature that is achievable with currently available materials.
So how can a small machine outperform a bigger one? - Would be my question.
My second question is how high the pressure is in this machine.
What a shame there wasn't better communications ... I was that Senior Production Engineer for over 10 years at a Kiwi company that builds bespoke HTS systems... on the day I left I was winding HTS coil number #1000.
Our speciality was cryogen-free 20K systems... typical in the 5 Tesla range. The first turn-key HTS 5T system I built in 2006 is still running today in a lab in Germany.
It's always 10 years until controlled fusion energy, by the way.
@@panaccoman no, it's still 10 years until they get controlled fusion.
@@panaccoman we have fusion. Just cant get the same amount of energy out as they put in.
lppfusion is the most sober and cheap approach, but it gets little funding because it's very simple and not "sexy" or viscerally impressive.
@@420frankp Wow, Frank, how exceptionally useful. We can sink in a ton of energy and get molecules to fuse. Great achievement, well done. Except nobody cares except scientists because what we actually need is a reactor that can produce vast amounts of energy extremely reliably, safely and cheap.
@@quakfrosch2298 are you on drugs buddy? Wtf is your deal?
Perhaps you could clear up a misunderstanding I may have? How will the synthesis of radio isotopes be constrained to avoid hazardous residues being created? How will you avoid each of your reactor's sites becoming contaminated with radio isotopes like the Cambridge tokamak's site, which resulted in hundreds of millions in cleanup costs?
Or are you going to rely on the small size and therefore costs of your reactor to allow easy containment, cleanup and replacement (disposal) of the entire unit - and it's inevitable radioactive wastes?
And, will that effect the duration of the work life that you expect from your best units?
Can you convince me, or briefly even simply say my questions are irrelevant because xyz? Do I misunderstand this completely?
Don't worry - it won't work anyway.
Im here from 1970, has it been 10 years yet?
great results. such a wonderful inspiration for young people. we'll need these power plants for interstellar space travel.
Great work and really exciting for the future
Very cool, save the world!
Is the plasma stability affected by vibration at all? Are portable tokamak reactors currently feasible in that regard even if dampened? (e.g. a flying or sailing craft)
Let's just sit back and watch "Ten Years" turn into "Twenty Years", and "Thirty Years" and on, and on. We just need MOAR TAXPAYER MONEY!!!
What about 'privately financed' do you not understand?
Like Elon Musk!
incredible. i love it!!
I had an old friend who worked at Harwell on tokamaks in the early 80s. I asked him then how long before these things start producing more energy than they consume. He reckoned about 2010, at the latest.
Maybe 2020...... 😈🤭🤭🤭
@@richardscathouse , Maybe 2030
propulsion dynamics will be interesting to see how it plays out.
Only a hundred years till the Epstine drive! (TheExpanse) 🤭🤭🤭
Team,
Your efforts are deeply appreciated and you all are clearly the rock on which the future of all humanity shall stand. Be that on Earth, in orbit, the Moon, or that of the site of the first Martian colonies, our collective successes will all be a direct result of these most incredible achievments leading to the luxuries "over unity" will obviously afford all of mankind from this generation forward.
I look upon your work in awe and and with the eagerness of child-like anticipation of that day, which now seems rapidly approaching, when our collective future will have become more secure than ever before in history. All as a direct result of your obvious drive, will, and desire to snatch from the depths of science fiction ethos and deliver unto mankind its greatest, long-term chance to see the wonderments of what the Universe has in store for us.
Though woefully lacking by comparison to the monumental accomplishment of that which it is offered, I speak for the rest of us in offering each of you our deepest of thanks.
SIncerely and without hesitation,
Max Laing
CEO / Project Development
ActionCore, Inc.
To me its the relatively small size that makes the most sense. Better for iterative performance increases and fine tuning.
The much larger projects might be how the process needs to be to work at scale and maintain efficiencies, but to me when things are at the just getting it to work stage they seem more rigid in design and it either works or fail large with little opportunity to rework the concept.
So to improve the high temp super conductors use them at at low temperature?
“High temperature” is a relative term. The earliest superconductors required very very low temperatures. In comparison, more recent ones work at much higher (but still low compared to day-to-day experience) temperatures.
This is the best of UK PLC
I hope you can achieve your goal. I don't think we can overstate the importance of your goals for the future of humanity.
@11:45 .. when people say things like: "hotter than the center of the sun" .. or: "more than the number of atoms in the universe" - I lose interest, because: we have no instruments to test such claims, it's exaggeration at best .. but well done to you-guys for achieving what you did; it's inspiring.
Stars are not fusion, they are electric, #ElectricUniverse why fusion doesn't work, it's a bad theory! 🤭🤭🤭
I know you said that you lose interest when people mention "hotter than the center of the sun", please check the Parker Solar Probe, Nasa is very close with it and can collect the data for the sun, the Parker Solar Probe is protected from a lot of heat and radiation. The Parker Solar Probe can go 450,000 miles per hour, and it's already done amazing readings near the sun, there's also another probe from Nasa on the way to the sun that's even better supposedly.
Go to my channel, find Technology Research, go there.
Find the playlists area on my other channel for all the playlists. Watch all videos from top to bottom in that order.
Check for a playlist called "Nasa's idea for the moon, the fastest we've ever gone in space, space propulsion and technologies so far".
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Also about the mention of "more than the number of atoms in the universe", I thought this might be interesting to watch, please watch the videos from top to bottom.
After you watch all videos, be sure to check out the info, articles and other links in each playlist description on my other channel.
This video doesn't seem to allow me to send links, I will give steps.
Find a playlist on my other channel called "Videos with important info to get around my channel".
Find my other channel's Quantum Computing playlist. This will talk about the number of atoms in the universe, but I do feel you should learn from this.
After that, check these other playlists in this order, Quantum Teleportation, The Quantum Internet, Photonic Computing, Spintronics, Quantum Sensors, Archer Materials working with IBM on Graphene with Quantum Computers for accelerating to room temperature, playlist.
Also check the Graphene computers for home and starships, playlist.
And the Graphene Twistronics playlist.
Something else to check out, do a youtube search for the Voyager 1 and 2 probes, supposedly they are outside our solar system and in interstellar space, "the space between solar systems in a Galaxy".
Hope they can make this work
Exciting video. Please tell us more about STF1: date, technology, comparison with other net-gain projects like ITER? Thanks!
Congratulations to this teams on this globe how will solved the problem of energy for the hole world. And achieve a more greatest milestone in the future of human beings.
Sun in a bottle. I think that was a book title. Decades later we are still waiting for results.
Which will never come, stars are electric, not nuclear, #ElectricUniverse
@@richardscathouse Dont know who gave you your physics degree. But most of the reactions that happen in the sun are nuclear. Sure I can say electric when electrons are involved. But the most important thing that helps these chain reactions happen is the force of gravity.
This is awesome and very exciting as an up and coming physics graduate! Do you have links With Birmingham University?
good luck with your project !
Tok a mak! Tok tok a mak! 30 more years to go"
24T! I thought 2T was where the material limitations started to surface. I guess my knowledge of HTS materials is stale.
I would guess that the 2T limit refers to the bulk material, which is brittle and prone to magnetic weirdness. This team looks like it is using the HTS tapes: thin layer of ceramic HTS deposited by molecular beam epitaxy on a robust flexible polymer. The material responds totally differently to the high stresses of high fields and can be grown with fewer flaws.
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YOU GUYS ROCK
Keep pushing the importance to "build the team", and your future is assured; you have future proofed your concepts as a result. Well done.
This is what Robert Bussard famously said about Tokomaks: "We have spent many decades, and many billions of dollars of Tokamaks, and so we know a lot about them. And what we know is that they are no damned good."
I feel very confident no Tokomak will ever produce a single watt of electric power for any gride anywhere.
If you want to waste a lot of money, then build a tokamak - even better, build one which requires 90 tons of liquid lithium to prevent it from killing everyone in the building.
Fusion is the future !!
Hi, Please can you ask Dr Kingham if he worked for VG Scientific of VG Ionex ? I am sure I recognize the gentleman, I was an engineer involved with high vacuum and high voltage, test and installation at the time...such a fascinating field to work in, I wish them continued success ...Oh yeah, if they need technicians..where can I get an interview !!
I was in college when I first saw a tokamak at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. I've been retired for 10 years... and it still doesn't work worth beans.
so when we replace the e old and oddy nuclear and carbon plants?
¡¡Great Video!! Congratulations
Blimey you never know they might be powering the world in ten to twenty years.
how many Megawatts can you generate under load today?
Energy in the grid in the next ten years! God speed, and thank you for all your work.
At the rates the infrastructure is collapsing it won't matter! .🤬
Exciting times 👍🏼
I don't suppose you guys will be releasing DIY videos for these?
didn't expect to hear Latvia mentioned
nice
Impressive. I wish I could invest
Man, that sounds like fun.
You have a good sense of direction with this much needed form of power, i wish you all the greatest successes. Not to mention how this will help the environment.
Cheaper, easier, safer just put up orbital solar power stations! At 20,000+ miles the sun never sets! 🤭🤭🤭
Go go go go!