To anyone interested, this reactor's tests were successful. It was able to make plasma from helium gas first, and hydrogen then. It is now currently under upgrade maintenance before resume testing. Making a commercial reactor is less sci-fi than before.
The react uses FAR MORE power then it generates and cost literally millions of dollars to produce. This reactor and others like it are simple for research purposes. You might as well being saying we are 2 steps closer to have supercoliders in every home.
Ok well nobody ever said that about Telsa. What I said is very specific to this very new technology. The simple fact is most people here have failed at comprehending the purpose of this project, and are speculating about it's future without a proper reference point. There's real potential here just not the direct A-B progress people are talking about hear. We cant just assume making it more efficient will overcome the limitation. Thats not what this is about. It's about trying to make the next breakthrough in physics.
Fusion reactors aren't new. It was buried by the government in favor of nuclear power since nuclear material can be weaponized. They simply didn't see a point in fusion based energy if energy was all they got out of it. If the US government had spent research money on fusion instead of nuclear, we'd have clean harmless energy all around the world by now. The major difference between nuclear reactors and fusion reactors is that in nuclear reactors you have systems in place to avoid a catastrophe by not letting it run rampant. In a fusion reactor you have systems in place to instead try and keep it going. If the systems in a fusion reactor shuts down, so will the reactor. If the same thing happened in a nuclear reactor you'd have a meltdown and you'd be fucked.
lex luthor once built a supercomputer so he would know the real identity of superman, the supercomputer calculated that superman was clark kent.. lex luthor being himself said it was the stupidest thing ever and that clark kent was not superman.. then he had the supercomputer dismantled.. ..at least they built this thing
19 years and over 1 million hours of work? Holy crap. It's exciting to know that such intense science experiments are being funded and worked on. Hope they gain some serious knowledge from it.
+Simeon Petkov I was just thinking that movies and games always seem to get these things right :), expecting to misunderstand Vortigaunts in 3 ... 2... 1 :)
+Simeon Petkov Unforeseen Consequences. The Germans had just stepped into the Test Chamber, when he whispered them into my ear. You know, who I'm talking about. Our mutual, 'friend'.
Well no if it was from an alien able to travel the planets and galaxy then it would be 10 x smaller and far more advanced and no such a Over complicated Archaic Design as any alien species capable of such feats as space travel would be so far advanced compared to us possibly millions of years, They would be lucky if we could even communicate with them, would be like us talking to a chimp .
So beautiful, and blows my mind how the optimal solution for an engineering problem actually ended up being such a weird-looking shape we'd expect to find in avant-garde art rather than a reactor, rather than a donut or tube which seems much more intuitive.
+farai mukungurutse No no no, nothing to do with the temperature, the whole rig looks as complicated as "hell". Designing that could be as simple as you like, but nobody would enjoy building it.
This might sound weird, but this is the dream I followed since my childhood. And now its complete! Many of you young people cannot guess how often this project was deemed "impossible" and almost got canceled. But finally its here, I still cannot believe this!
It did! They are upgrading it atm until end of 2021 so that it can go to full lengh. In 2030 there will be a final summary and hopefully it'll go full industrial then. If successfull it could operate 24/7 with equal poweroutput as the Tokamov. A true blessing.
The shape of those coils is so bizarre, I don't think any human could have come up with them. We're rapidly moving toward technology that humans can't actually comprehend without the aid of more technology.
it's because we are human and we have limitations but knowledge makes up for those things in the shape of telescopes/cars/internet really everything in modern life
+Aetrion That's a bit insulting to the human race... Do you know how many engineers, scientists etc work daily to get this working properly? Is it hard for you to comprehend someone actually dedicating their lives to mathematics and engineering to achieve great feats?
This is going to be successful. What you are seeing is the way that exponential information processing technology is leapfrogging itself. The ITER, the culmination of all of 20th century engineering technology is going to be made obsolete before it can even be finished because of supercomputing advances since 2010. This is the nature of the accelerating acceleration of technological improvement. There is a valid reason why the term "technological singularity" is becoming a mainstream idea discussed and acted on.
+Izumi Laryukov They analyzed the problems from the first time, which turned out to be minor; yes, just a matter of more computation. I'd expect them to become successful. This is indeed very exciting!Imagine someday soon, 3d printing stellators!
+Izumi Laryukov ahhh no, this is just another branch of technology to do the same thing. Stellarators are just another branch of the same technological pathway. ITER is not going to be obsolete because its just another implementation,a necessary one. These technologies are not competing because both of them are very costly. But in the long run toroidal reactors are going to be widespread because of ITER.
+Izumi Laryukov Just saying, but you realize just building it "took 19 years", right (0:53)? Meaning that it wasn't formulated with the help of super computers. It states in the video itself that it was "optimized" by super computing technology (0:23). Basically running multiple instances of slightly varied equations to check to see which one would work the best. The entire idea was made within the mind of a human being. Besides, who do you think programmed the computers? ;) Basically, what I'm getting at, is we're still building reactors that were only dreamed up during the 1990s. Reactors like ITER won't be obsolete for a while to come with as long as it takes to build them with their complexity that they currently hold. Just thought I'd point that out.
To those commenting about time travel: If you can build a dome of steal the size of the moon and sit inside it, time will slow down for you but remain the same for others outside of the dome (obviously), or go at or near the speed of light and the same thing will happen. Once you return to earth or come out of the dome, depending how long you were traveling near the speed of light or in the dome, it will be far ahead into the future. For example if you travelled out into space near the speed of light for 2-3 months, you would return to circa year 3000.
mmmmmmk.... how's the joke work? sculpted magnets are hell?? ha ha o_O??? or are they saying the engineers are inside a plasma while designing it??? ..such a great joke..
As an artist, I have to say this is a sick design, much more interesting than a regular torus. But it will be a pain in the ass to draw such tisted designs in perspective for future sciFi comics, illustrations, and concept art.
It's actually named after a German mountain, the Wendelstein. What's really interesting about that is that the Wendelstein mountain is close to the southern German border to Austria while the Wendelstein 7-X reactor is set at the northern coast. They are at completely opposite ends of the fucking country.
This should get a lot more attention. Could this mean they have done it? If this machine reaches its goal and is generating a pulse for 30 min (which means basically, limitless because they limeted it to 30 min for other reasons) and if they find out the optimal plasma configuration, which is,imho, both very likely to happen, they can build a prototype. Not only that, they can order one from the industry, because the W-7X is an industrial project, its components are scalable. Unfortunatly I am not an expert, so I don't really know if the above is true, maybe there is a more competent person out there to give better insight?
Looks like something you'd expect to see in a cool end of the world junkyard movie. Everything is cool and futuristic but made out of spare parts. I love it.
it just produced its first plasma for a tenth of a second yesterday!!! :) so the years of work definately payed off. i'm very exited when we will see the next steps.
The shape could (sadly and luckily) be more optimized by going for a 4 instead of 5 section loop. That would make the structure more (if not most) symmetrical from all angles thus providing a more optimal magnetic field. But the current 5 section loop design is fairly close to what one would call optimal. It’s basically already in another league compared to the ITER.
... and give them a one billion budget. 😊 But seriously, this is a wonderful example of international cooperation. Scientists from dozens of countries helped to make this happen. And maybe it helped a bit too that the German chancellor is a scientist as well and has her constituency right there... 😉
1.1 Million Hours of construction.... I'm pretty sure she meant to say 1.1 Million man-hours of construction. If it took 1.1 Million Hours, that would mean it took approximately 125 YEARS to make.
I remember when I was back in 5th grade during the 1967-1968 school year watching a video saying that fusion power is probably around 50 years away. I hope that prediction does not fall too short. I would like to see it in my life time
+TheIdaho69442 Unfortunately, it doesn't annihilate matter with antimatter, so we'll have to wait until we've started harvesting antimatter from Earth's, Jupiter's and Saturn's magnetic fields.
Максим Казимир 3 мая · Вышгород · The main drawback of the existing reactors Tokamak and stellarator the inability to maintain a constant current thermonuclear reaction. They are, in any case, intended for cyclic operation. This is the first. With some difficulty and a large expenditure of energy required are achieved plasma parameters (pressure, temperature, density) necessary for the emergence of a thermonuclear reaction. This is the second. Well, a limited set of fuel -deytery and Helium-3 (even if it will be able to deliver to the Moon). I propose to change the approach to the plasma confinement in a magnetic field. The plasma must be held not inside the toroidal space in a static state, and on the surface of a torus in a dynamic state. That is, the magnetic field not only protects the surface from contact with the plasma, but also accelerates the plasma on the toroidal surface. What this gives us ?? It is known that plasma tries to curl up in a coil bundles. In this case, we have it not only does not hinder, but also to help! In addition, in the central part of the torus, since the plasma at its core is an ionized gas, and, accordingly, is subject to the law of gas dynamics, there area with high pressure and temperature. The pressing magnetic field torus-shaped plasma stream from the walls, we still can do more to increase the temperature and pressure in the center of the torus. In the extreme case of this zone can be still and warm up microwave radiation. Feeding into combustible type deuterium plasma flow, and I suspect that there will be enough of an ordinary hydrogen, we get a stable zone in the center of the torus and which will be controlled thermonuclear reaction. In addition, by increasing or decreasing the fuel supply source, we can adjust the power and energy. And as for ion-plasma engines. Actually used the same scheme. And at its core mechanics of the process is more like a job or a quasar black hole (I think). The trajectory of movement of the plasma is shown in the photo .. #Tokamak #Stellarato #thermonuclear
Nothing, that is the beauty of Fusion. No waste, no radiation, if it melts it melts. They actually switched it on already for something like 45 seconds.
Exactly. Fission reactors can melt down because the fuel is always shedding particles. If you lose control of this process, the whole system heats up and destroys the core. Fusion, by comparison, doesn't just happen on its own. You need to induce ungodly temperatures and pressures to make it happen; that's what the doughnut of electromagnets is for. If you lose containment, you'll blow a nice big hole in your expensive reactor, possibly destroy the whole thing, but as soon as all that pressure escapes, the fusion reaction stops.
1.100.000 hours of construction... divided by 24 for day conversion... 45.833 days... divided by 365 days per year 125,57 years... ?!?125 and a half year?!? Something tells me their numbers are off here. Maybe the combined efforts of everyone involved may sum up to a total of 1.1 million, but no one can tell me they had fusion tech for so long and spent the last century to build that thing, ignoring the two world wars taking place in the meantime. Poor choice of words. I'm interested in how long they've been assembling the thing.
1,100,000 man hours dumbass. If you don't know what that means it's the sum of the amount of time each person puts into the job. So 10 people working 8 hours a day would be 80 man hours a day.
That is probably the total for everyone working on it altogether (yearly amount of hours per person x Number of people working on the project x 19 = 1.1 million hours)
I have no idea who they're trying to confuse but "designed in hell" very interesting video description from a science channel? I didn't know it was the business of scientists to acknowledge the existence of God, I can't wait to read their peer reviewed scientific paper on the matter
This could to power our world, everhow... Happen to all that needs is for people, pockets heavy wealth with do give up aspirations their of dominating rest of the us... I no think it happen soon any time...
it's too obvious isn't it? as long as humans keep using ordinary fuels, (even fission) we're really just scavengers. Even fissile material was just garbage from an older supernova we're just scraping up.
Biofuels are probably the next commercial step. The infrastructure is already in place, and when we get purpose designed crops that give overall more energy than regular oil we'll probably finally abandon fossil fuels.
Why would we go for biofuels? Plants have nowhere near the efficiency our solar panels do, and using more biofuel could possible increase food prices. Also our future battery technology may possibly make combustion fuels obsolete for most of their current purposes.
im now 29 years old and have to say whats happen in our times today with quantum computer, fusion reactor and hyper loop its so exciting. I know our future will be great
I see the last comment was 2 years ago. None the less l say.. l don't understand.. it's taken 19 years to build, ideas and technology improve so much in that time . So what is the initial project as it was intended to be or has it evolved ?? I wonder this about all huge project's.. interesting !! 😲
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To anyone interested, this reactor's tests were successful. It was able to make plasma from helium gas first, and hydrogen then. It is now currently under upgrade maintenance before resume testing. Making a commercial reactor is less sci-fi than before.
What's ahead with regards to this technology? Are there other similar protects? Any references?
Thank you, I wanted to know if it worked.
The react uses FAR MORE power then it generates and cost literally millions of dollars to produce.
This reactor and others like it are simple for research purposes. You might as well being saying we are 2 steps closer to have supercoliders in every home.
Ok well nobody ever said that about Telsa. What I said is very specific to this very new technology.
The simple fact is most people here have failed at comprehending the purpose of this project, and are speculating about it's future without a proper reference point. There's real potential here just not the direct A-B progress people are talking about hear. We cant just assume making it more efficient will overcome the limitation. Thats not what this is about. It's about trying to make the next breakthrough in physics.
Fusion reactors aren't new. It was buried by the government in favor of nuclear power since nuclear material can be weaponized. They simply didn't see a point in fusion based energy if energy was all they got out of it. If the US government had spent research money on fusion instead of nuclear, we'd have clean harmless energy all around the world by now.
The major difference between nuclear reactors and fusion reactors is that in nuclear reactors you have systems in place to avoid a catastrophe by not letting it run rampant. In a fusion reactor you have systems in place to instead try and keep it going. If the systems in a fusion reactor shuts down, so will the reactor. If the same thing happened in a nuclear reactor you'd have a meltdown and you'd be fucked.
Making a similiar build, would this run witcher 3 at 60 fps on ultra?
Let me guess, AMD user?
+deasnutz4ever R9 fury. Or Nano.
+Feluto this is a reactor, not a computer.
+Damien Green This is a hypebole, not a joke.
+Feluto It's advanced technology, but please do not exaggerate
Good god that thing looks like a clusterfuck. It's kind of beautiful
Genius often does look like a clusterfuck from the outside.
TheGreatYukon most clusterfucks are, aren't they?
Most people think their mothers are beautiful :)
It looks quite a lot like some of the stuff that nature does, enzymes and complex molecules etc.
Leslie Grayson
Because they are😏
Imagine being the poor fucker who had to show what the computer shat out to his boss in a committee meeting
"So,you're telling me we have to hire sculptors now, Robinson?"
"Yes.....yes sir....that is what I am saying"
"But not just any sculptors! Superconducting magnet sculptors!"
"Get out"
What happened?
How about watching the video to find out?
lex luthor once built a supercomputer so he would know the real identity of superman, the supercomputer calculated that superman was clark kent.. lex luthor being himself said it was the stupidest thing ever and that clark kent was not superman.. then he had the supercomputer dismantled..
..at least they built this thing
What a complex design. A wet dream in Autocad.
MartyvH looks more like solid works
This was probably designed with Siemens NX or Catia...
paint nigthmare
No, it was design in Microsoft words.
@@fabioo9459 hahahahahahahahahahaha
The Borg called, they want their microwave back.
ⵉⵜⵔⵓⵏⴰⵓⵜ Locusus called
ⵉⵜⵔⵓⵏⴰⵓⵜ starship avalon called, it wants one of its reactors back
That's the most complicated doughnut I've ever seen!
Steampunk donut
T.U.N.O.D...
**=** The honey cruller! ^^
Because it's a german Donut. They like it complicated. 🤣
can i eat it?
Such a cool DIY project!
lmao
Hahaa
Best comment in this video lmao hahahahahahahaha lol
Beary FUCKING Nice They
not just cool but litarraly the best hope for man kind for renewable energy. this wil save us.
Now Dr. Freeman! Get into this room and push that trolley into the beam.
Don't forget your crowbar!
Does it have a "popcorn" setting?
+Dennis Gaughan build time?
+Kamy Every bag of popcorn says not to use the popcorn button anyway!
Yes but the popcorn always comes out a little bit burned
+Cucha Racha no. the structure of popcorn ist too complex ;-)
+Cucha Racha There will always be a few kernels left that wouldn't pop even if you use this reactor's popcorn setting.
why is the description using words like "nightmare" and "hell"? this is a beautiful, positive thing
Yeah, but to create a beautiful thing you need to go through nightmare
Leave it to the Germans to build a machine like this.
+camocam7 pollution? Not like they give a shit
+camocam7 there's also this thing called the enviroment
when this thing blows up "Get too zeee choppaae""
+Tiger H. Lore Why use gas when you can obliterate with burning hot plasma?
+Jeb Rothberg would you be so kind to grow a brain?
19 years and over 1 million hours of work? Holy crap. It's exciting to know that such intense science experiments are being funded and worked on. Hope they gain some serious knowledge from it.
Engineers: pissing of mechanics and DIYers daily.
Instead of getting pissed off, why not try to make a simple version of it? It just looks like a twisted doughnut, doesn't it?
They did, 50 years ago, it is called a Tokamak.
In this case the engineer was a computer
All of our 80s cyberpunk OVA dreams are coming true right before our eyes.
+Random Guy From Texas
yes i am
good job you figured it out
*****
Of course it isn't, but neither is citizenship to the Republic of Texas.
+TheRealGK yes
***** you didn't read my tip.
B-
Would you prefer people obsessed with European culture? I don't.
Reminds me of Half-Life...
+Simeon Petkov Prepare for unforeseen consequences.
+Simeon Petkov The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world. So, wake up and... smell the ashes...
+Simeon Petkov I was just thinking that movies and games always seem to get these things right :), expecting to misunderstand Vortigaunts in 3 ... 2... 1 :)
+Simeon Petkov Half-Life 3 , confirmed.
+Simeon Petkov Unforeseen Consequences. The Germans had just stepped into the Test Chamber, when he whispered them into my ear. You know, who I'm talking about. Our mutual, 'friend'.
They give us all this cool info and then forget to tell us when they plan to turn it on. #Fail
sick hashtag ken
#theyalreadydid
Looks like alien design.
Well no if it was from an alien able to travel the planets and galaxy then it would be 10 x smaller and far more advanced and no such a Over complicated Archaic Design as any alien species capable of such feats as space travel would be so far advanced compared to us possibly millions of years,
They would be lucky if we could even communicate with them, would be like us talking to a chimp .
Where's doom guy when you need him
So beautiful, and blows my mind how the optimal solution for an engineering problem actually ended up being such a weird-looking shape we'd expect to find in avant-garde art rather than a reactor, rather than a donut or tube which seems much more intuitive.
Apparently they started this project in 1994 and began construction in 2005. Nearly 20 years of work has been put into this thing.
I'm just glad you guys ended up going with a subtle, topical title instead of something hyperbolic or clickbait-y
Took 19 years to make, can only play Ark:Survival Evolved at 45 fps... fail
Awsea I said 45fps... so... your comment is irrelevant and mine was just a joke
People care about higher fps to prevent drops below 60. If my average would be 60, then I'd reguraly have below 60 fps aswell. But I get the point.
well this is a reactor not a computer...
But can it run Crysis?
I realize it was a joke but you can play Ark way higher than 45 fps even with a GTX 970 now
The engineering that went in to designing this is amazing.
I feel sorry for the guy that had to manage all the cables xD
Wow, so a supercomputer designed it. If we view technology as an entity, Its almost like its bringing itself into being O_0 *takes rip*
whats with the title designed in hell ?
+farai mukungurutse It is referring to the operating temperature of the contained plasma - many times hotter than the hottest part of the sun.
+farai mukungurutse life on earth is hell with the dominant sources of energy production being fossil fuel and dirty fission reactors.
+nightjarflying I understand how plasma works just wondering why u would title it like that it's on purpose.
+farai mukungurutse No no no, nothing to do with the temperature, the whole rig looks as complicated as "hell". Designing that could be as simple as you like, but nobody would enjoy building it.
+LadyDanielle Zana Fission reactors aren't that bad, and we need them to fight the climate problem
Why even bother? We just need Tony Stark in a Cave.
+SnoopysOtherBird And a box of scraps.
+Sarge Rho but we don't have a cave.
Just give him a wrench and a couple hours later a fusion reactor appears
bet this can't run crysis 3
LegitDaddy 💀💀💀
it’s not a computer LOL
+Connor Slayton you don't say?
This might sound weird, but this is the dream I followed since my childhood. And now its complete! Many of you young people cannot guess how often this project was deemed "impossible" and almost got canceled. But finally its here, I still cannot believe this!
The beauty of this machine...can't believe this is "optimal" anything....reminds me of fractals...
why designed in hell ? lol
+Dadi Ghidut They were grasping for a headline.
+Dadi Ghidut Because of its strange 'organic' look
seems like a pretty clickbait title
+quorkquork , they say in the first minute of the video why it's designed in hell, "It was a nightmare to build"
they? not scientist working there , im sure
This is some UAC grade tech shit right there. I would be on the lookout for imps
But I don't see a portal, which sorta sucks.
+Megañan Profile pic source request
cmon... don't hold out on a fellow non-casual
and black holes...i'm pretty sure this will create a black hole that will destroy our solar system.
bvbxiong Or create a black hole to a wonderful world of loli
19 years in the making.
*turns it on*
"Hope we didn't need this screw..."
"Oh. OH GA-"
Literally every cartoon with a science experiment on it.
pretty much a simple mobius strip, but the builders didn't stop until they had packed every bit of science known to man into its design
That IS Amazing, I was working on a very similar design back in 1980-81 in the Navy.
I hope this thing kicks into High Gear !
It did! They are upgrading it atm until end of 2021 so that it can go to full lengh.
In 2030 there will be a final summary and hopefully it'll go full industrial then.
If successfull it could operate 24/7 with equal poweroutput as the Tokamov. A true blessing.
The shape of those coils is so bizarre, I don't think any human could have come up with them. We're rapidly moving toward technology that humans can't actually comprehend without the aid of more technology.
+Aetrion it's actually really simple with math that's really the answer to almost everything
+Jose Corona there's a math equation to everything
Jose Corona That's my exact point though, what is "simple math" to a supercomputer can't even be contained in a human thought.
it's because we are human and we have limitations but knowledge makes up for those things in the shape of telescopes/cars/internet really everything in modern life
+Aetrion That's a bit insulting to the human race... Do you know how many engineers, scientists etc work daily to get this working properly? Is it hard for you to comprehend someone actually dedicating their lives to mathematics and engineering to achieve great feats?
The Germans have made the final solution... I know, I know. I'll let my self out.
This is going to be successful. What you are seeing is the way that exponential information processing technology is leapfrogging itself. The ITER, the culmination of all of 20th century engineering technology is going to be made obsolete before it can even be finished because of supercomputing advances since 2010. This is the nature of the accelerating acceleration of technological improvement. There is a valid reason why the term "technological singularity" is becoming a mainstream idea discussed and acted on.
+Izumi Laryukov They analyzed the problems from the first time, which turned out to be minor; yes, just a matter of more computation. I'd expect them to become successful. This is indeed very exciting!Imagine someday soon, 3d printing stellators!
+Izumi Laryukov ahhh no, this is just another branch of technology to do the same thing. Stellarators are just another branch of the same technological pathway. ITER is not going to be obsolete because its just another implementation,a necessary one. These technologies are not competing because both of them are very costly. But in the long run toroidal reactors are going to be widespread because of ITER.
+Izumi Laryukov Just saying, but you realize just building it "took 19 years", right (0:53)? Meaning that it wasn't formulated with the help of super computers. It states in the video itself that it was "optimized" by super computing technology (0:23). Basically running multiple instances of slightly varied equations to check to see which one would work the best. The entire idea was made within the mind of a human being. Besides, who do you think programmed the computers? ;) Basically, what I'm getting at, is we're still building reactors that were only dreamed up during the 1990s. Reactors like ITER won't be obsolete for a while to come with as long as it takes to build them with their complexity that they currently hold. Just thought I'd point that out.
+Izumi Laryukov you should join the transhumanists =)
+wertrager hi there! thank you! you can google "izumi3682" and see my takes on the future in reddit "futurology" overview of my comments.
To those commenting about time travel: If you can build a dome of steal the size of the moon and sit inside it, time will slow down for you but remain the same for others outside of the dome (obviously), or go at or near the speed of light and the same thing will happen. Once you return to earth or come out of the dome, depending how long you were traveling near the speed of light or in the dome, it will be far ahead into the future. For example if you travelled out into space near the speed of light for 2-3 months, you would return to circa year 3000.
good story, dumb title
It's a joke, get over yourself.
mmmmmmk.... how's the joke work? sculpted magnets are hell?? ha ha o_O???
or are they saying the engineers are inside a plasma while designing it??? ..such a great joke..
Garet Claborn The joke is that it's a fucking complicated design. That's it.
OMG HILLARIOUS !!!!
nope, wait, the other thing. still a dumb title.
Designed in hell?.. Argent energy?
lassefar Thygesen That damn Samuel Hayden is up to some shady shit.
this came up after i was watching doom videos lol
These guys rock.
Looking cool, but does it have a cup holder?
The funny thing is that stellarator is way more complicated to build and much more expensive but allows to easier control of plasna than in tokamak.
As an artist, I have to say this is a sick design, much more interesting than a regular torus. But it will be a pain in the ass to draw such tisted designs in perspective for future sciFi comics, illustrations, and concept art.
The "supercomputer" that desinged it all those 19 years ago (21 years now) is probably about as powerful as an average mid range desktop pc now...
that's awesome. it will probably be cool shit like this that powers star ships.
I love how greebly it is.
This is beautiful... I am completely blown away at this entire process...
Looks impressive, but I notice this video was published on Oct 22, 2015. So what has happened since? Any progress in the last two years??
"Here is the technology
I've asked you to simply make it smaller.
Tony Stark was able to build this in a cave! With a box of scraps!"
Such a sexy name. Oh, those Germans!
It's actually named after a German mountain, the Wendelstein.
What's really interesting about that is that the Wendelstein mountain is close to the southern German border to Austria while the Wendelstein 7-X reactor is set at the northern coast.
They are at completely opposite ends of the fucking country.
This should get a lot more attention. Could this mean they have done it? If this machine reaches its goal and is generating a pulse for 30 min (which means basically, limitless because they limeted it to 30 min for other reasons) and if they find out the optimal plasma configuration, which is,imho, both very likely to happen, they can build a prototype. Not only that, they can order one from the industry, because the W-7X is an industrial project, its components are scalable.
Unfortunatly I am not an expert, so I don't really know if the above is true, maybe there is a more competent person out there to give better insight?
Took longer to build than most RUclipsrs have been alive.
Looks like something you'd expect to see in a cool end of the world junkyard movie. Everything is cool and futuristic but made out of spare parts. I love it.
So when can I get a miniature sized one of these to power my suit?
Slow down, Dr. Freeman.
+Felix Wilson I think he was talking about ironman
+Damien Green Or Master Chief
Mark Kram or Ironman
+Damien Green Or fallout 4 power armour.
The Germans apparently don't have Ted Cruz as head of their science subcommittee. #GoGermany
no. only merkel who happens to be a chemical physicist.
To think that Fusion power could become a thing within the next 5-10 years. what an amazing time I live in!
Looks like something to un would make Evangelion Neon Genesis to have energy for the positron rifles
it just produced its first plasma for a tenth of a second yesterday!!! :)
so the years of work definately payed off. i'm very exited when we will see the next steps.
In about half a year the new upgrade is completed :-)
Next one: Singularity Reactor that haves a mini black hole in is core
Now I want to see such a thing. Even if it is only an animated 3d model.
The shape could (sadly and luckily) be more optimized by going for a 4 instead of 5 section loop. That would make the structure more (if not most) symmetrical from all angles thus providing a more optimal magnetic field. But the current 5 section loop design is fairly close to what one would call optimal. It’s basically already in another league compared to the ITER.
i find ironic that german are the most advanced in the pseudo green energy but in the other hand, have the number one coal mine :/
+Evi1M4chine coal plants are not radioactive.
+AlexandreHimself that coal mine also has a very impressive machine
I'm sorry the world didn't notice, but I did - heartiest congratulations. This is the beginning of a new era for mankind!
this is what happens if you leave german engineers alone in a room for 10 years.
... and give them a one billion budget. 😊 But seriously, this is a wonderful example of international cooperation. Scientists from dozens of countries helped to make this happen. And maybe it helped a bit too that the German chancellor is a scientist as well and has her constituency right there... 😉
@@randuru this is not an international project. you are thinking about the international project ITER.
HALF-LIFE 3 CONFIRMED!
And it is in my city
England is my city.
Well rip when it explodes
HyperPlaysMinecraft It cannot explode.
HyperPlaysMinecraft
It can break and release the plasma, but that won't cause an explosion.
1.1 Million Hours of construction.... I'm pretty sure she meant to say 1.1 Million man-hours of construction. If it took 1.1 Million Hours, that would mean it took approximately 125 YEARS to make.
136 years i think, and in the end she said it took 19 years, so wtf, noone can understand woman
Passion and imagination drives the world to the future
Looks like a solid weekend project.
Might need to borrow Larry's truck to get it done though
German have finaly made a video on english!!!! :D
That is revolution ! :p
Superkee watch joerg sprave lol
Am I the only one who wants to hang out by this just incase it blows up and I get super powers.
The only superpower you'll get is the ability to speak in a high pitched voice...for a few seconds.
Was there a super computer 19 years before????
nope in your term, it took long to render
yes
"Oops!! we have one bolt left over". "Don't worry just hide it"
I remember when I was back in 5th grade during the 1967-1968 school year watching a video saying that fusion power is probably around 50 years away. I hope that prediction does not fall too short. I would like to see it in my life time
Can we please call it a Warp Core? Please?
+TheIdaho69442 Unfortunately, it doesn't annihilate matter with antimatter, so we'll have to wait until we've started harvesting antimatter from Earth's, Jupiter's and Saturn's magnetic fields.
+TheIdaho69442 that one was a tokamak, this is a tokamak with a twist
wertrager Warp Cores aren't Tokamaks, and Stellarators aren't strictly Tokamaks either.
Sarge Rho Yeah, I know that. I've mistaken the Lawrence Livermore National Ignition facility for a particle acc
"designed in hell"?? There is no hell exept the one humans create for ourselves.
Максим Казимир
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The main drawback of the existing reactors Tokamak and stellarator the inability to maintain a constant current thermonuclear reaction. They are, in any case, intended for cyclic operation. This is the first. With some difficulty and a large expenditure of energy required are achieved plasma parameters (pressure, temperature, density) necessary for the emergence of a thermonuclear reaction. This is the second. Well, a limited set of fuel -deytery and Helium-3 (even if it will be able to deliver to the Moon). I propose to change the approach to the plasma confinement in a magnetic field. The plasma must be held not inside the toroidal space in a static state, and on the surface of a torus in a dynamic state. That is, the magnetic field not only protects the surface from contact with the plasma, but also accelerates the plasma on the toroidal surface. What this gives us ?? It is known that plasma tries to curl up in a coil bundles. In this case, we have it not only does not hinder, but also to help! In addition, in the central part of the torus, since the plasma at its core is an ionized gas, and, accordingly, is subject to the law of gas dynamics, there area with high pressure and temperature. The pressing magnetic field torus-shaped plasma stream from the walls, we still can do more to increase the temperature and pressure in the center of the torus. In the extreme case of this zone can be still and warm up microwave radiation. Feeding into combustible type deuterium plasma flow, and I suspect that there will be enough of an ordinary hydrogen, we get a stable zone in the center of the torus and which will be controlled thermonuclear reaction. In addition, by increasing or decreasing the fuel supply source, we can adjust the power and energy. And as for ion-plasma engines. Actually used the same scheme. And at its core mechanics of the process is more like a job or a quasar black hole (I think). The trajectory of movement of the plasma is shown in the photo .. #Tokamak #Stellarato #thermonuclear
Any updates? Can it produce more than 1:1 power?
Its not twisty enough, twisty is scary.
What happens if this melts down or explodes
Nothing, that is the beauty of Fusion. No waste, no radiation, if it melts it melts. They actually switched it on already for something like 45 seconds.
Exactly. Fission reactors can melt down because the fuel is always shedding particles. If you lose control of this process, the whole system heats up and destroys the core. Fusion, by comparison, doesn't just happen on its own. You need to induce ungodly temperatures and pressures to make it happen; that's what the doughnut of electromagnets is for. If you lose containment, you'll blow a nice big hole in your expensive reactor, possibly destroy the whole thing, but as soon as all that pressure escapes, the fusion reaction stops.
1.100.000 hours of construction...
divided by 24 for day conversion...
45.833 days...
divided by 365 days per year
125,57 years...
?!?125 and a half year?!?
Something tells me their numbers are off here. Maybe the combined efforts of everyone involved may sum up to a total of 1.1 million, but no one can tell me they had fusion tech for so long and spent the last century to build that thing, ignoring the two world wars taking place in the meantime. Poor choice of words. I'm interested in how long they've been assembling the thing.
Construction hours are sometimes multiplied by the number of people who worked on it. They said in the video it took ~20 years
The calculations you made are for one person to complete the job.
1,100,000 man hours dumbass. If you don't know what that means it's the sum of the amount of time each person puts into the job. So 10 people working 8 hours a day would be 80 man hours a day.
VariusMayhem I mean if 125 people worked on it for a year... then I guess it's true I'm sure much more than that worked on it
VariusMayhem my god man
1.1 millions hours of construction is aprox 125 years not 19
I know right. They are so dumb. 19 years would only be ~166,000 hours.
That is probably the total for everyone working on it altogether (yearly amount of hours per person x Number of people working on the project x 19 = 1.1 million hours)
If you cannot do simple math/logic, leave please.
I have no idea who they're trying to confuse but "designed in hell" very interesting video description from a science channel? I didn't know it was the business of scientists to acknowledge the existence of God, I can't wait to read their peer reviewed scientific paper on the matter
moissanite ball radius uv laser focal point in the center
Could this to power our world?
It could power Skynet ...
This could to power our world, everhow... Happen to all that needs is for people, pockets heavy wealth with do give up aspirations their of dominating rest of the us...
I no think it happen soon any time...
PRAISE THE ATOM!!!
We need to stop using fossil fuels and create a better way to supply our energy needs!
it's too obvious isn't it? as long as humans keep using ordinary fuels, (even fission) we're really just scavengers. Even fissile material was just garbage from an older supernova we're just scraping up.
i am afraid of that day when we find a excillent way and better way to use oil and on the next day we hear news that oil is 1liter left
Biofuels are probably the next commercial step. The infrastructure is already in place, and when we get purpose designed crops that give overall more energy than regular oil we'll probably finally abandon fossil fuels.
Why would we go for biofuels? Plants have nowhere near the efficiency our solar panels do, and using more biofuel could possible increase food prices. Also our future battery technology may possibly make combustion fuels obsolete for most of their current purposes.
The Pope why not a combination of solar and bio, why does it have to be one or the other
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So the Max Planck institute for Plasma Physics is located in hell?
#TeamTokamak
I briefly forgot hell was a town and thought damn have we already gone to mars and harvesting unlimited energy from hell already.
What is the PFM here? Is it expected to last the lifetime of the reactor or be replaced. If replaced, how?
1,100,000 hours is like over a hundred years...
undermined yourself with the opening statement
Now we just need to dunk a scientist inside the reactor for him to become a supervillain
How are they cooling it to -270C? As far as i know we have only gotten really close with lasers.
im now 29 years old and have to say whats happen in our times today with quantum computer, fusion reactor and hyper loop its so exciting. I know our future will be great
the unfortunate part is; it uses more energy than it produces because it has to heat the gas and cool the electro-magnets. I wanted to see it work :(
Everything looks so simple to design...it's amazing
I see the last comment was 2 years ago. None the less l say.. l don't understand.. it's taken 19 years to build, ideas and technology improve so much in that time . So what is the initial project as it was intended to be or has it evolved ??
I wonder this about all huge project's.. interesting !! 😲