Hey from the "misshapen metal bits" comment it sounds like it was your grid that was stolen? I built a fusor as my bachelor thesis at uni, and it was actually really easy to make prototype grids by hand with just stainless steel thread. Also from my experience you might benefit from more "spokes" on your grid.
At 8:00 you refer to plasma as the disassociation of neutrons, protons, and electrons; however, (in this context) plasma is when the electrons are stripped from the nucleus (ionized) while the protons and neutrons remain bound to each other. I really enjoy your videos.
Hey, thanks! I've added a correction here, and it should appear as a little info card in the video there: "07:48 In plasma, one or more electrons are torn free from an atom (as opposed to protons and neutrons themselves being "broken into bits"!)"
@@CleoAbram There's something wrong with that info card. All I can see is little "ⓘ" symbol on top left but it only says "(null)" when I try to interact with it.
Also at 7:48, when you say that you don't find plasma in a kitchen it made me ask my self if flames or neon lights are plasma. If it is the case then you might have plasma in your kitchen 😉
Try it bro, you can ride the highest speed train for the first time in Southeast Asia. The highest speed is 350 kilometers per hour, the Indonesian fast train Jakarta - Bandung, the newest, most sophisticated in Southeast Asia, the first,.the way to the beautiful and comfortable and beautiful and cool and cool city of Bandung, thank you sis and Ka..*
Try it bro, you can ride the highest speed train for the first time in Southeast Asia. The highest speed is 350 kilometers per hour, the Indonesian fast train Jakarta - Bandung, the newest, most sophisticated in Southeast Asia, the first,.the way to the beautiful and comfortable and beautiful and cool and cool city of Bandung, thank you sis and Ka..
It's been so much fun watching and seeing some skills that you obviously developed at Vox, but now also storytelling and style and voice that is definitely uniquely yours. Loving the quality of this content and watching it evolve with every new episode!
Reminds me of organizational structure of guilds. Cleo, in my eyes, has gone through an Apprenticeship, Journeyman, and is Master of the video journalism craft. I feel she can have a successful lifelong career with this. Especially if she can bottle her success and market it to others in her trade of video journalism. Beautiful work Cleo, Ill be sharing your work with my students.
Hey, I’m a PhD student at the uk’s national lab for fusion. Just wanted to say that this is a really good introductory video to fusion and explains very difficult concepts well in a short space of time
Cleo has said that one of the goals of her channel is to give people informed reasons for hope and optimism. Watching her learn how to say “nuclear proliferation” made me feel like anyone can do anything. (Also, Simone is the best, can’t wait for the build.)
Try it bro, you can ride the highest speed train for the first time in Southeast Asia. The highest speed is 350 kilometers per hour, the Indonesian fast train Jakarta - Bandung, the newest, most sophisticated in Southeast Asia, the first,.the way to the beautiful and comfortable and beautiful and cool and cool city of Bandung, thank you sis and Ka..
Try it bro, you can ride the highest speed train for the first time in Southeast Asia. The highest speed is 350 kilometers per hour, the Indonesian fast train Jakarta - Bandung, the newest, most sophisticated in Southeast Asia, the first,.the way to the beautiful and comfortable and beautiful and cool and cool city of Bandung, thank you sis and Ka..
i wonder if its possible to control a farnsworth fusor with an arduino? and what kind of sensors it would need for the whole contraption to actually sustain itself? i've looked into these little fusors for quite the while but never had the guts or the money to build one
Great video Cleo! Thank you! Hello @HelionEnergy! Amazing tech. Godspeed! I'm curious what your take is on "climate change"? I suspect your probably "all-in" for obvious reasons. I ask bc despite it's near ubiquity these days, there appears to be a number of fundamental problems with the theory - esp. regarding carbon dioxide. The true answers to a few questions provide what anyone interested should know about CO2/Earth climate; what was the maximum CO2 level in the past? What is the "ideal" CO2 level for plants? What is the minimum CO2 level for plants? The current CO2 level in relation to the "true answers" to those questions tells everything one needs to know about what "the consensus" believes causes climate change. I encourage anyone interested to repeat the process. It's well worth it. Very enlightening! PS, I say "true answers to a few questions" bc the BS is everywhere! From all sides of the debate. The politics attached to this issue are pathetic and sad.
I just came across your channel about a week ago and WOW your videos are genuinely so amazing. The pacing, the storytelling, the editing, everything. It feels somehow both incredibly professional and conversational at the same time. Can't wait to see where you take this channel!
Shame on the RUclips algorithm for taking until today to let me know Cleo had her own channel! Great video, informative, entertaining, and flows nicely through the facets of the topic. I'm looking forward to digging into the rest of them!
Try it bro, you can ride the highest speed train for the first time in Southeast Asia. The highest speed is 350 kilometers per hour, the Indonesian fast train Jakarta - Bandung, the newest, most sophisticated in Southeast Asia, the first,.the way to the beautiful and comfortable and beautiful and cool and cool city of Bandung, thank you sis and Ka..
Try it bro, you can ride the highest speed train for the first time in Southeast Asia. The highest speed is 350 kilometers per hour, the Indonesian fast train Jakarta - Bandung, the newest, most sophisticated in Southeast Asia, the first,.the way to the beautiful and comfortable and beautiful and cool and cool city of Bandung, thank you sis and Ka..
The editing flow you have, where you jump out of the frame to the editor and explain things - I really really like it. You always seem to manage to do it at times to explain the stuff that I'm thinking. Also it is great to see some underlying themes from the channel show through on different videos. You mentioned about the possibilities of having unlimited energy back in your clean energy video and the idea of reducing being mis-stated. I'm really looking forward to seeing the video in another 6 months and where things might lead.
Try it bro, you can ride the highest speed train for the first time in Southeast Asia. The highest speed is 350 kilometers per hour, the Indonesian fast train Jakarta - Bandung, the newest, most sophisticated in Southeast Asia, the first,.the way to the beautiful and comfortable and beautiful and cool and cool city of Bandung, thank you sis and Ka..
Try it bro, you can ride the highest speed train for the first time in Southeast Asia. The highest speed is 350 kilometers per hour, the Indonesian fast train Jakarta - Bandung, the newest, most sophisticated in Southeast Asia, the first,.the way to the beautiful and comfortable and beautiful and cool and cool city of Bandung, thank you sis and Ka..
Hi Cleo I work for an R&D center in Mexico. I'm really impressed for your communication ability to describe Physics fundamentals with ease. Many thanks! I'm your fan now.
Congrats on the explanation, I loved this 101 on fusion. Thank you! Some of the issues that fusion systems are experiencing are how to overcome the great complexity of engineering challenges required to maintain a running fusion system. The systems being developed now only last for a very small blip of a second. I believe the more experiments we can do on a smaller scale (just as you did) the greater the ingenuity we can throw at the engineering difficulties of constructing a running fusion system and the faster we can achieve a sustainable outcome. Build small fusion kits in many Labs and Unis. Start playing with our ingenuity in problem-solving and experimenting faster. Unleash our most powerful weapon; a network of minds. Something we need to remember is that having the culture to play with ideas and methods is just as powerful in problem-solving as building a massive methodical laboratory process.
Obviously the video was good, the way you tell story, all the editing and the play with camera that's all amazing. The topic was little blurred but I guess waiting for part 2 will be worth it.
Ok, now I can't wait to see part 2, I loved this video, your organization of the parts and editing. The subject is very interesting and I hope you are having a lot of fun with the building with Simone. You two are awesome
As someone who has been working in this field for some time now, its nice to see one of the creators I follow doing a video about it! Fusion is hard but the recent batch of experimental results gives me hope.
I absolutely LOVE that ad timer in the upper left that tells us what you're saying is an ad. Wish everyone did that on RUclips... much respect for you.
This is the first time I come across your channel. I just want to say that I really enjoy your channel and unique creative and narrative style. It's also great to see women sharing their passion for science :) Thank you, I learned a lot.
While i still totally hate the fact, that it is a evil clickbait video... I actually like your approach, style and the resulting video format very much! The collaboration with Simone Giertz is a very cool cherry on top (and it looks like you don't just exploit her reach but actually add your fair share to it. ;)) You got yourself another subscriber ;)
Great video as always. Especially love the editing style - the inclusion of the actual premiere files as a transition is a cool additional. Goes a long way to show the transparency and authenticity you show through the wider process.
You should look into deep geothermal. It holds 90% as much promise for cheap electricity, but it's relatively simple tech and only a couple of years away. It doesn't get enough press, I don't know why.
The potential answer to deep geothermal is ironically a fusion technology that uses the super powered microwave system used for heating plasma to drill in the deep layers. Large scale test in 2024 by Quaise Energy!
Truly inspiring and intuitively conveying information. It's also amazing seeing the video quality and Polishness (no idea if that's a word) ramping up over the past year.
@@magicvibrations5180 well, it's still tentative. For actual practical use, it still needs to be about a 100 times more efficient and we need to be able to reproduce it at a much faster rate, but we're getting there!
@@magicvibrations5180 Magnetic confinement reactors (tokamaks and stellarators) are much closer to commercial power generation though. The DEMO reactor planned to be built after ITER will most likely already be able to actually put power into the grid.
I’m 100% behind continuing to research fusion reactors. Just not at the cost of slowing down our deployment of other tech like solar and wind. Like you said in the video, it feels like fusion has “almost been a thing” for a long time. There’s just too much risk that we never really manage to get it to work so we shouldn’t put all our eggs in that basket.
Love the video, kinda wish you had mentioned ITER as this is the experiment that will tell us if tokamak reactors can work at scale as a power plant. Maybe your friendly ceo asked you not to as that's a competing technology. Perfectly understandable if so! Loved to see that stellerator picture too!
I really love how cleo goes entirely against the masses here saying "hey, the problem is not using too much energy, it is having too little". It's something I have believed in for a long time, and I am not alone with this.
It's magical thinking though. The lack of time and resources we have makes it so that we can't just innovate and consume our way out. Fusion is actually a good example of something that's theoretically possible but may very well not be applicable or scalable to help much. It's why believers have to rely on erroneous fluffy notions like, 'we did other electricity stuff before.'
@@christianschmitt2409 it's just a very troublesome kind of optimism to have when facing such a crisis. The 'Don't Look Up' kind. I think the video that started it all is an even better example. Recall the example of adding insulation vs having abundant energy such that we won't even need to insulate. Insulation is a known, practical, lasting solution that effectively acts at least as well as adding extra energy to the equation. Why! Why undermine realistic and urgent mitigating requirements with mirage like hopes of abundant energy just over the horizon? The polished graphics presented by a skillful and seemingly well meaning person makes it all the more worrying.
@@snizami that's a good point. Not adding insulation would be rather stupid. however, having abundant energy doesn't have to stop us from doing that. Energy will still not be free. and I totally see optimism being dangerous in this time. at any time, really.
There's often some cynicism when people build "garage fusors", maybe in part because it's often linked to slightly overhyped articles about "genius teens". However -- too many people think that the goal of hobby engineering projects is to end up with an original invention, or a functional product. The important bit is the knowledge, the skills, the insights gained along the way! Projects like these inspire people to learn more about physics, visit makerspaces, work on their own projects, or even convince kids to get STEM degrees, which is a major win!
It's only a matter of time until we are able to stabilize fusion plasma for extended amounts of time, but sadly the prejudice against fission sets back the development of fuision despite fusion actually holding this huge potential for (compareatively) clean, sustainable and effecient energy! Also in regards to space travel!
I had to stop by and just mention I’m in shock with the immense amount of detail and effort that goes into your videos and post editing! So elaborate and entertaining! I even watch through your sponsors 😂😂
ITER is a test reactor in France which may show that it can produce more energy than it consumes in fusion. You could add that in Part 2. Although we are at the beginning of a long journey, there are already reactors that can produce a Plasma. 😁
serious question for anyone smarter than me: in gravitational confinement - if we built a fusion reactor under the ocean (this is all hypothetical of course) and used the pressure from the ocean.....would it work in some way?
Great video! But don't do clickbait like that... By that standard I also tried to build a fusion reactor in my kitchen. I just happened to have five extra packages missing.
This is such a clear, well explained video. I feel like I understand so much more about the topic than before and feel way more excited about the future of fusion!
Wait, what? Why do you @Cleo Abram only have 243K subscribers.... I find your way in wich you are telling these video's fasinating... You are telling these stories in ways I have seen perhaps no other RUclipsr tell these stories... or well, perhaps Mark Rober is an exception... But in a different kind of way. Even though I love Simone, I think you should have WAAAYYYYYYY more subscribers!
I really had the felling that with this video I am not a step ahead but a step backwards it doesn't bring me nothing new but maybe it's good for a younger audience... but Simone is great! She explains well and she built a chair for dogs that always want to sit next to us!? Fantastic! That's really cool I subscribed her channel!! Thank you Simone! 🙂🙂
You guys are so awesome!!! I originally wrote a long drawn out explanation of the many ways you did that, but after reading YOUR AWSOME sums it. Please keep up the great work and I look forward to seeing more great things from you two in the future
Simone is one of the most delightful people on the Internet. But honestly, if I ever ran into her walking around LA, I think I'd be even more excited about meeting Scraps.
Only one word that is appropriate to describe: the topic, the presentation, the production value, the generation of excitement, etc. --> AWESOME !! Subscribed for more !!!
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Congratulations Cleo! You got me with this video. Thanks and keep going!
Not gonna lie - as a physicist, whenever journalists try to talk about physics it usually makes me cringe pretty hard . But this video was actually really competent and got almost everything right, well done!
Can't wait to see you and Simone build an Electric Field confinement Fusion Reactor! Because that's the only easy way to do Fusion, where you just make a very strong spherical electric field, and all the charged particles oscillate back and forth between the walls and collide with each other in the center. It just takes _WAY_ more energy to run it compared to the output, but it's a very good neutron source! (be careful with the radiation please) (I just started with my Master's in "Science & Technology of Nuclear Fusion" :) )
I am more excited about what MIT is trying to do with geothermal energy than Fusion. Geothermal energy is a well proven technology. MIT is just working on the technology to be able to drill deeper than we currently can. That will allow us to utilize geothermal energy anywhere on earth. On top of that they say it can be used on existing coal and natural gas power plants to generate endless clean energy
First of all: nice video. I'm excited to see the next part! You tried to simplify the explanation a lot, which makes it easily accessible. The trade-off is unfortunately the loss of depth. But that ok for viewers new to the topic. One thing I want to point out ist, that you always say the reactors will generate electricity. But they just produce heat, which will be used to produce steam, which than drives the turbine/generator. I would suggest to use the term "energy" if in doubt. TLDR: Nice video. Pls use heat or energy instead of electricity when talking about reactor output.
RUclips recommended this video coming from Sabine Hossenfelder's video about cold fusion and I clicked because I saw Simone and thought it was her video, but this was the happiest accident! Loved the video, subscribed and will be exploring your channel now
Good riddance to the person that stole those packages! Can’t wait to see what they use it for 😂
Thank you Simone and Cleo for being awesome role models for girls everywhere. You are both amazingly talented and intelligent women!
Hey from the "misshapen metal bits" comment it sounds like it was your grid that was stolen? I built a fusor as my bachelor thesis at uni, and it was actually really easy to make prototype grids by hand with just stainless steel thread. Also from my experience you might benefit from more "spokes" on your grid.
probably change the world by making a fusion that works and gives more energy
Evil Iron Man suit?
Good thing that stuffs totally not trackable.
At 8:00 you refer to plasma as the disassociation of neutrons, protons, and electrons; however, (in this context) plasma is when the electrons are stripped from the nucleus (ionized) while the protons and neutrons remain bound to each other. I really enjoy your videos.
really enjoy watching the video! But this needs to be corrected or annotated.
Hey, thanks! I've added a correction here, and it should appear as a little info card in the video there: "07:48 In plasma, one or more electrons are torn free from an atom (as opposed to protons and neutrons themselves being "broken into bits"!)"
There were other tiny errors too but there is no need for me to be pedantic it was a goood introduction for anyone not too familiar.
@@CleoAbram There's something wrong with that info card. All I can see is little "ⓘ" symbol on top left but it only says "(null)" when I try to interact with it.
Also at 7:48, when you say that you don't find plasma in a kitchen it made me ask my self if flames or neon lights are plasma. If it is the case then you might have plasma in your kitchen 😉
As a nuclear engineer, I’m in AWE that you got the CEO of Helion on here! That’s so cool, id love to work for helion I’m so happy you met him
well if you were that sexy im sure he would meet you too haha... :(
Try it bro, you can ride the highest speed train for the first time in Southeast Asia. The highest speed is 350 kilometers per hour, the Indonesian fast train Jakarta - Bandung, the newest, most sophisticated in Southeast Asia, the first,.the way to the beautiful and comfortable and beautiful and cool and cool city of Bandung, thank you sis and Ka..*
Try it bro, you can ride the highest speed train for the first time in Southeast Asia. The highest speed is 350 kilometers per hour, the Indonesian fast train Jakarta - Bandung, the newest, most sophisticated in Southeast Asia, the first,.the way to the beautiful and comfortable and beautiful and cool and cool city of Bandung, thank you sis and Ka..
It's been so much fun watching and seeing some skills that you obviously developed at Vox, but now also storytelling and style and voice that is definitely uniquely yours. Loving the quality of this content and watching it evolve with every new episode!
Don't like breaking the fourth wall, it was fine when som people where doing that, now everyone doing this, and it's enjoying, ruins storytelling.
Reminds me of organizational structure of guilds. Cleo, in my eyes, has gone through an Apprenticeship, Journeyman, and is Master of the video journalism craft. I feel she can have a successful lifelong career with this. Especially if she can bottle her success and market it to others in her trade of video journalism. Beautiful work Cleo, Ill be sharing your work with my students.
Best part is, it’s not political
Hey, I’m a PhD student at the uk’s national lab for fusion. Just wanted to say that this is a really good introductory video to fusion and explains very difficult concepts well in a short space of time
I'm the first to comment on how fantastic Cleo's vids are becoming. I really appreciate your hard work and dedication.
thank you!! I really appreciate it. I love making them, and there's so much more we can do.
Very informative, definitely subscribing
Cleo has said that one of the goals of her channel is to give people informed reasons for hope and optimism.
Watching her learn how to say “nuclear proliferation” made me feel like anyone can do anything.
(Also, Simone is the best, can’t wait for the build.)
Try it bro, you can ride the highest speed train for the first time in Southeast Asia. The highest speed is 350 kilometers per hour, the Indonesian fast train Jakarta - Bandung, the newest, most sophisticated in Southeast Asia, the first,.the way to the beautiful and comfortable and beautiful and cool and cool city of Bandung, thank you sis and Ka..
Try it bro, you can ride the highest speed train for the first time in Southeast Asia. The highest speed is 350 kilometers per hour, the Indonesian fast train Jakarta - Bandung, the newest, most sophisticated in Southeast Asia, the first,.the way to the beautiful and comfortable and beautiful and cool and cool city of Bandung, thank you sis and Ka..
Awesome working with you on this one - we can’t wait to see the fusor built in Part 2!
is the fusor going to be implementing a FRC configuration?
i wonder if its possible to control a farnsworth fusor with an arduino? and what kind of sensors it would need for the whole contraption to actually sustain itself?
i've looked into these little fusors for quite the while but never had the guts or the money to build one
You guys rock, so many clever people coming at this problem from so many different angles I'm sure something will stick :)
Why is it pink?
Great video Cleo! Thank you!
Hello @HelionEnergy! Amazing tech. Godspeed!
I'm curious what your take is on "climate change"? I suspect your probably "all-in" for obvious reasons. I ask bc despite it's near ubiquity these days, there appears to be a number of fundamental problems with the theory - esp. regarding carbon dioxide.
The true answers to a few questions provide what anyone interested should know about CO2/Earth climate; what was the maximum CO2 level in the past? What is the "ideal" CO2 level for plants? What is the minimum CO2 level for plants?
The current CO2 level in relation to the "true answers" to those questions tells everything one needs to know about what "the consensus" believes causes climate change. I encourage anyone interested to repeat the process. It's well worth it. Very enlightening!
PS, I say "true answers to a few questions" bc the BS is everywhere! From all sides of the debate. The politics attached to this issue are pathetic and sad.
I just came across your channel about a week ago and WOW your videos are genuinely so amazing. The pacing, the storytelling, the editing, everything. It feels somehow both incredibly professional and conversational at the same time. Can't wait to see where you take this channel!
Shame on the RUclips algorithm for taking until today to let me know Cleo had her own channel! Great video, informative, entertaining, and flows nicely through the facets of the topic. I'm looking forward to digging into the rest of them!
This is so great! I really enjoyed watching two of the biggest nerds I follow online geek out together ☺️
Try it bro, you can ride the highest speed train for the first time in Southeast Asia. The highest speed is 350 kilometers per hour, the Indonesian fast train Jakarta - Bandung, the newest, most sophisticated in Southeast Asia, the first,.the way to the beautiful and comfortable and beautiful and cool and cool city of Bandung, thank you sis and Ka..
Try it bro, you can ride the highest speed train for the first time in Southeast Asia. The highest speed is 350 kilometers per hour, the Indonesian fast train Jakarta - Bandung, the newest, most sophisticated in Southeast Asia, the first,.the way to the beautiful and comfortable and beautiful and cool and cool city of Bandung, thank you sis and Ka..
The editing flow you have, where you jump out of the frame to the editor and explain things - I really really like it. You always seem to manage to do it at times to explain the stuff that I'm thinking.
Also it is great to see some underlying themes from the channel show through on different videos. You mentioned about the possibilities of having unlimited energy back in your clean energy video and the idea of reducing being mis-stated. I'm really looking forward to seeing the video in another 6 months and where things might lead.
Try it bro, you can ride the highest speed train for the first time in Southeast Asia. The highest speed is 350 kilometers per hour, the Indonesian fast train Jakarta - Bandung, the newest, most sophisticated in Southeast Asia, the first,.the way to the beautiful and comfortable and beautiful and cool and cool city of Bandung, thank you sis and Ka..
Try it bro, you can ride the highest speed train for the first time in Southeast Asia. The highest speed is 350 kilometers per hour, the Indonesian fast train Jakarta - Bandung, the newest, most sophisticated in Southeast Asia, the first,.the way to the beautiful and comfortable and beautiful and cool and cool city of Bandung, thank you sis and Ka..
Hi Cleo I work for an R&D center in Mexico. I'm really impressed for your communication ability to describe Physics fundamentals with ease. Many thanks! I'm your fan now.
Congrats on the explanation, I loved this 101 on fusion. Thank you!
Some of the issues that fusion systems are experiencing are how to overcome the great complexity of engineering challenges required to maintain a running fusion system. The systems being developed now only last for a very small blip of a second.
I believe the more experiments we can do on a smaller scale (just as you did) the greater the ingenuity we can throw at the engineering difficulties of constructing a running fusion system and the faster we can achieve a sustainable outcome.
Build small fusion kits in many Labs and Unis. Start playing with our ingenuity in problem-solving and experimenting faster. Unleash our most powerful weapon; a network of minds.
Something we need to remember is that having the culture to play with ideas and methods is just as powerful in problem-solving as building a massive methodical laboratory process.
Obviously the video was good, the way you tell story, all the editing and the play with camera that's all amazing. The topic was little blurred but I guess waiting for part 2 will be worth it.
More collabs like these with Simone please. This was awesome. Two of you are really great at what you do.
Ok, now I can't wait to see part 2, I loved this video, your organization of the parts and editing.
The subject is very interesting and I hope you are having a lot of fun with the building with Simone. You two are awesome
As someone who has been working in this field for some time now, its nice to see one of the creators I follow doing a video about it! Fusion is hard but the recent batch of experimental results gives me hope.
I absolutely LOVE that ad timer in the upper left that tells us what you're saying is an ad. Wish everyone did that on RUclips... much respect for you.
I love your way of storytelling, Cleo. Keep on doing what you do
Cleo, your channel is the #1 place to easily learn something complicated while still keeping it entertaining. Great job! Love your channel
Small correction, in a plasma the neutrons and protons don't separate. It's just the electrons that stop orbiting the nucleus
This is the first time I come across your channel. I just want to say that I really enjoy your channel and unique creative and narrative style. It's also great to see women sharing their passion for science :) Thank you, I learned a lot.
The quality of your videos gets better and better everytime! I'm loving it! The writing, the editing, the animations, you're killing it!
Recently, a group of people was able to gain energy from fusion (a small amount, but still progress!)
The colab we all wanted but don't deserve
RUclips colabs are the best... I only binge watch RUclips.
While i still totally hate the fact, that it is a evil clickbait video...
I actually like your approach, style and the resulting video format very much!
The collaboration with Simone Giertz is a very cool cherry on top (and it looks like you don't just exploit her reach but actually add your fair share to it. ;))
You got yourself another subscriber ;)
Great video as always. Especially love the editing style - the inclusion of the actual premiere files as a transition is a cool additional. Goes a long way to show the transparency and authenticity you show through the wider process.
Can I have an Iron Man suit? "Two women built this in their garage!!!"
You should look into deep geothermal. It holds 90% as much promise for cheap electricity, but it's relatively simple tech and only a couple of years away. It doesn't get enough press, I don't know why.
The potential answer to deep geothermal is ironically a fusion technology that uses the super powered microwave system used for heating plasma to drill in the deep layers. Large scale test in 2024 by Quaise Energy!
The ceo looks like Dr.Octavius who was also trying to do nuclear fusion !! 🤯
Great channel and content. Looking forward to part 2.
Plasma physics PhD student here! I LOVED THIS VIDEO! Thank you for shedding light on fusion research :) Good Luck!
Truly inspiring and intuitively conveying information.
It's also amazing seeing the video quality and Polishness (no idea if that's a word) ramping up over the past year.
I hope the package thief is struck by plasma "rays"
I look forward to the jokes at the footer of your descriptions now
Ladies, you are just amazing and your contents are addictively well made!!!!!!!
Well this is my first time coming across this channel so congratulations to the algorithm, I’m in, I’m hooked, what’s next!!!!
It's crazy that the main caveat of not getting more energy out than we put in has already been solved just two months after this video was posted
By who?
@@RedaKadem The US department of energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
@@magicvibrations5180 well, it's still tentative. For actual practical use, it still needs to be about a 100 times more efficient and we need to be able to reproduce it at a much faster rate, but we're getting there!
@@shirshajitsingha7567 not even close. 300 units in, 3 out. sounds like a giant gulf to me.
@@magicvibrations5180 Magnetic confinement reactors (tokamaks and stellarators) are much closer to commercial power generation though. The DEMO reactor planned to be built after ITER will most likely already be able to actually put power into the grid.
13:32 - That's a very good point and I am glad your friend mentioned it.
I’m 100% behind continuing to research fusion reactors. Just not at the cost of slowing down our deployment of other tech like solar and wind.
Like you said in the video, it feels like fusion has “almost been a thing” for a long time. There’s just too much risk that we never really manage to get it to work so we shouldn’t put all our eggs in that basket.
Love the video, kinda wish you had mentioned ITER as this is the experiment that will tell us if tokamak reactors can work at scale as a power plant. Maybe your friendly ceo asked you not to as that's a competing technology. Perfectly understandable if so!
Loved to see that stellerator picture too!
I really love how cleo goes entirely against the masses here saying "hey, the problem is not using too much energy, it is having too little". It's something I have believed in for a long time, and I am not alone with this.
kardashev scale my man, the one true measurement stick for civilization ;)
It's magical thinking though. The lack of time and resources we have makes it so that we can't just innovate and consume our way out. Fusion is actually a good example of something that's theoretically possible but may very well not be applicable or scalable to help much. It's why believers have to rely on erroneous fluffy notions like, 'we did other electricity stuff before.'
@@snizami I'm with you on Fusion not being a thing. It's often hard for me to understand cleo's optimism, but she geht's some fore Points right.
@@christianschmitt2409 it's just a very troublesome kind of optimism to have when facing such a crisis. The 'Don't Look Up' kind. I think the video that started it all is an even better example. Recall the example of adding insulation vs having abundant energy such that we won't even need to insulate. Insulation is a known, practical, lasting solution that effectively acts at least as well as adding extra energy to the equation. Why! Why undermine realistic and urgent mitigating requirements with mirage like hopes of abundant energy just over the horizon? The polished graphics presented by a skillful and seemingly well meaning person makes it all the more worrying.
@@snizami that's a good point. Not adding insulation would be rather stupid. however, having abundant energy doesn't have to stop us from doing that. Energy will still not be free. and I totally see optimism being dangerous in this time. at any time, really.
There's often some cynicism when people build "garage fusors", maybe in part because it's often linked to slightly overhyped articles about "genius teens".
However -- too many people think that the goal of hobby engineering projects is to end up with an original invention, or a functional product.
The important bit is the knowledge, the skills, the insights gained along the way!
Projects like these inspire people to learn more about physics, visit makerspaces, work on their own projects, or even convince kids to get STEM degrees, which is a major win!
Imagine these two trying to explain fusion using a model reactor but end up making more energy than they put in 😂
It's only a matter of time until we are able to stabilize fusion plasma for extended amounts of time, but sadly the prejudice against fission sets back the development of fuision despite fusion actually holding this huge potential for (compareatively) clean, sustainable and effecient energy!
Also in regards to space travel!
Why not wait until another 2 weeks to make the video?
I had to stop by and just mention I’m in shock with the immense amount of detail and effort that goes into your videos and post editing! So elaborate and entertaining! I even watch through your sponsors 😂😂
The quantity of videos are just 📈📈📈
Helion CEO looks like doctor Octavius from Spider-Man, working on a miniature sun, coincidence?
ITER is a test reactor in France which may show that it can produce more energy than it consumes in fusion. You could add that in Part 2. Although we are at the beginning of a long journey, there are already reactors that can produce a Plasma.
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serious question for anyone smarter than me: in gravitational confinement - if we built a fusion reactor under the ocean (this is all hypothetical of course) and used the pressure from the ocean.....would it work in some way?
Great video! But don't do clickbait like that... By that standard I also tried to build a fusion reactor in my kitchen. I just happened to have five extra packages missing.
This video was so unique, I was hooked from the start. I even watched the ad. Never skipped a part. Subbed 👍
This is such a clear, well explained video. I feel like I understand so much more about the topic than before and feel way more excited about the future of fusion!
Wait, what? Why do you @Cleo Abram only have 243K subscribers.... I find your way in wich you are telling these video's fasinating... You are telling these stories in ways I have seen perhaps no other RUclipsr tell these stories... or well, perhaps Mark Rober is an exception... But in a different kind of way. Even though I love Simone, I think you should have WAAAYYYYYYY more subscribers!
This is a wonderful insight into the current atmosphere of chemistry and physics research!
I have recently found your channel, and can't stop watching all the contents because they are so good...❤❤❤
simone and you are two rays of light, creating the best places of youtube.
This channel is such a gem.
This was by far the best edited video! Hahaha it was so much fun to watch it!
I've just discovered your channel, it's fantastic! Thank you, the world needs more creators like you. :)
This was brilliant! I swear I learned more about nuclear fission and fusion in this one video than I ever did in all of school. 🙌 Heck yeah sciencing!
I really had the felling that with this video I am not a step ahead but a step backwards it doesn't bring me nothing new but maybe it's good for a younger audience... but Simone is great! She explains well and she built a chair for dogs that always want to sit next to us!? Fantastic! That's really cool I subscribed her channel!! Thank you Simone! 🙂🙂
I love your communication style which fits so nicely with Simone as well. Great video and I’m looking forward to Part 2.
This video is so great! Thank you for talking about fusion and making it understandable for everyday people.
I love the organization and integration of the editing timeline into the video to help navigate the narrative
Pink Panther Superhero with the Superpower of Fusion Energy
Really love your channel and the fascinating and uplifting content you bring. Thank you.
Love watching stuff that I know nothing about... sort of gives the brain a wake up punch. Thank you. Subbed here.
QUEEN! this slayed
You guys are so awesome!!! I originally wrote a long drawn out explanation of the many ways you did that, but after reading YOUR AWSOME sums it. Please keep up the great work and I look forward to seeing more great things from you two in the future
Simone is one of the most delightful people on the Internet. But honestly, if I ever ran into her walking around LA, I think I'd be even more excited about meeting Scraps.
I can't help but to think the CEO looked alot like Dr Octopus, just younger... and they both loved the idea of sun on earth
The choice to show the editing software, and zip in and out of the frames was brilliant. Gives an interesting connection to the video.
Only one word that is appropriate to describe: the topic, the presentation, the production value, the generation of excitement, etc. --> AWESOME !!
Subscribed for more !!!
Congratulations Cleo! You got me with this video. Thanks and keep going!
I just found your channel and I have to say, brilliant explanation with so crisp editing, looking forward to see more from you!
Whelp, that hook got me. Looking forward to seeing this nuclear reactor! Subscribed!
Literally two of my absolute favourite educational RUclipsrs in a single video? Sign me up!!!
1st time visiting your channel. Your editing is so awesome you earned 1 more subscriber.
Not gonna lie - as a physicist, whenever journalists try to talk about physics it usually makes me cringe pretty hard .
But this video was actually really competent and got almost everything right, well done!
Except maybe for the magneticism part 🤔
Can't wait to see you and Simone build an Electric Field confinement Fusion Reactor!
Because that's the only easy way to do Fusion, where you just make a very strong spherical electric field, and all the charged particles oscillate back and forth between the walls and collide with each other in the center.
It just takes _WAY_ more energy to run it compared to the output, but it's a very good neutron source! (be careful with the radiation please)
(I just started with my Master's in "Science & Technology of Nuclear Fusion" :) )
Sublimation skips a phase change when you add more energy . Love seeing new people get involved, and build something cool .
This is really well done. Great work!
We don’t need to recreate a fusion reactor when the sun is literally the biggest fusion reactor in space. We just need solar and storage 😂
yep, they are idiots...
I am more excited about what MIT is trying to do with geothermal energy than Fusion. Geothermal energy is a well proven technology. MIT is just working on the technology to be able to drill deeper than we currently can. That will allow us to utilize geothermal energy anywhere on earth. On top of that they say it can be used on existing coal and natural gas power plants to generate endless clean energy
First of all: nice video. I'm excited to see the next part!
You tried to simplify the explanation a lot, which makes it easily accessible. The trade-off is unfortunately the loss of depth. But that ok for viewers new to the topic.
One thing I want to point out ist, that you always say the reactors will generate electricity. But they just produce heat, which will be used to produce steam, which than drives the turbine/generator. I would suggest to use the term "energy" if in doubt.
TLDR: Nice video. Pls use heat or energy instead of electricity when talking about reactor output.
You two are so cool and so crazy beyond words. I so LOVE it. Keep up the good work.
Another absolute banger! Thanks Cleo
love your editing style!!
Your excitement for science and progress is contagious.
Keep making great videos 👌
Pro-lif-er-a-tion! Love that you girls are collaborating finally!
Keep up the great work!
oml my two favorite channels in one video this is crazy
The best crossover ever, simone is awesome
Really great episode! Also, thanks Cleo for introducing me to a great RUclipsr in Simone!
This was an awesome episode, can't wait for part 2!
My jaw has been open throughout this whole video. This is such engaging content. I'm enthralled. Great job!
RUclips recommended this video coming from Sabine Hossenfelder's video about cold fusion and I clicked because I saw Simone and thought it was her video, but this was the happiest accident! Loved the video, subscribed and will be exploring your channel now
So psyched! Looking forward to Part 2!
Love your videos, Cleo. Keep up the good work!