Man, they got the right guy to announce this. Explained it very clearly. He made jokes. And most importantly he didn't come off as a highly trained spokesperson. Just as a guy who works in the field and is excited to talk about it.
@@justintime41776 he/square. AKA "what are your pronouns?" Sir, I wear a tie to work and I get excited about high energy physics" I upset some folks at work when i filled out the "pronouns" section of my profile with "just look at my photo and go with whatever you would have correctly assumed 10 years ago". Fortunately, when HR chatted to me about this, it was 15 minutes into the meeting when I pointed out that while they were grumbling about pronouns they'd been pronouncing my first name incorrectly the whole time and that before getting worked up about my pronouns, they should figure out my proper nouns.
The US government has had this technology for decades and kept it suppressed. Alex Jones said they'd release it soon and pretend it was new technology.
@@Marcus-jt2ff Thats because any longer and normal people would start asking questions instead of just the intelligent ones. Tell me, what is the fuel used?
@@adrianhenle Do I know you? Do you know me personally? How can you gauge anyone's ego and its frailty by one single comment in a thread? You can't and is only a lame attempt at a character assassination of a complete stranger you know absolutely nothing about. Why would one single comment evoke such a gross opinion of a complete stranger? Because you have nothing better to do than to troll comments and act as if you know the people you're commenting to. Right
@Woozy Tritium/Deuterium is used....what do you know about the difference between in biological Half-life of just tritium at 12-30 days and Organically Bound Tritium?
@@paulmobleyscience Tell us, what do YOU know about it? Probably not much given the nonsensical nature of your "question" and bizarre random capitalizations.
@@supermarioisacat OBT is tritium taken up in plantlife where during the metabolic process it either replaces hydrogen in the cell or binds directly to the cell forming Organically Bound Tritium. "OBT causes DNA strand breaks, micronucleus formations, cell necrosis or apoptosis, chromosomal aberrations and various other phenomena thus negatively affecting human health." End quote.....genius
What you see on this man’s face and hear in his voice is the pride and joy of a man who’s life’s work has just gotten a bit closer to coming to fruition.
I wish the mainstream media would give this more attention than a 1 and a half minute clip on RUclips. This is truly a momentous achievement, and one that should be acknowledged, and celebrated across the world.
They won't show it much because it goes against what they are trying to push which is green energy, like solar panels, those windmills that can explode if the winds are too much or if the turbine fails..
It won't be celebrated across the world until it's weaponized, and the governments get to flex discipline while holding the highest known level of humanity's demise. Hopefully the scientists receive a noble peace prize for this revolution. However, nuclear fusion may have unintended consequences as a whole.
@geeky zebra This is also considered a field of "green energy." Fusion has been in the news for a very long time, and unfortunately, it has been slow to mature, so it never stole the spotlight. On the other hand, solar panels and windmills are real and produce real power beyond the input power. This was momentus, but this took decades. We need to do what they did for nanoseconds continuously, without interruption, to make a difference in the world.
@@jiggitydazzle84 Glad you completely misunderstood what this means, therefore proving why the media doesn't do stories like this. Because the vast majority of people can't understand it, nor could the reporters, they don't even bother doing massive stories on these topics. This guy had to dumb it down so much because it would take an hours long lecture just to explain how the lasers outputted 2MJ even though they put in 400MJ worth of energy to do it. This is quite an achievement, but FAR from collecting more energy than was put into the process.
Until now, explaining the fusion achievement in clear, detailed, easy to understand terms in under 2 minutes was apparently deemed impossible by network news executives. Another breakthrough! 👏
I dont want to scare anyone about the lower lifeforms in our species but... As soon as he said Xray I may as well have been in a different room. When he said we're hiring however... my ears perked up. I think if people ever listened to me all of humanity would be at risk. Lol
“So this is pretty cool.” “We’re hiring!” A succinct summary of fusion energy followed by a rising call to arms! Words to stand the test of time, surely
You can tell he’s beaming with pride while talking about this, and he should be proud. This is a turning point for civilization, and I can’t believe I lived to see it.
Dr. Marvin Adams's delivery was excellent. What a historic moment in fusion research. Once something is realized as possible, things tend to quickly take off.
That would be incredible. I’ve dreamed of going to space my whole life but before today I probably never would have believed it was possible. This is a great first step
@@olearysbf6580 Corruption is a trait common in all human societies. Feel free to google corruption scandals in Europe, China, Japan, India, South Korea, Russia, Brazil, and South Africa.
I love his level of calmness. There's no need to "sell" or hype up anything. It's like when you impressively succeed and you don't have to worry about going over minor issues. You did it. Edit: hey ya'll, just so ya'll know I ain't reading these comments
He did hype it but you did not understand the deception. He did not account for the total input energy from the outside system that was used to run lasers.
I read about nuclear fusion in 7th grade & I'm so happy to be alive to witness this achievement. Congratulations to all the scientists involved throughout the decades for this.
Well that would be nuclear fusion created naturally without human interference 😐this is man made 😐no human can ever create a star naturally 😐even so this is a milestone but their are problems 😑one like anything dealing with nuker fusion if every factory in the us does nuker energy they have to be aware of nuker meltdown from power failures and natural disasters 😐
This is exactly the kind of public facing image that is needed in science. Not just to explain vast complexities in the simplest form but also to inspire the younger generations.
Except he’s doing it deceptively.. The reaction actually consumed over 300 megajoules to produce. In practical terms, it took a hundred times the energy put in, to generate 3 megajoules of output. He is absolutely mystifying and convoluting it, just doing so calmly. They’re estimating that the lasers were just real inefficient. They believe only 2.05 megajoules, of the hundreds of megajoules consumed to produce this, actually reached the target and if they could get rid of all the “estimated inefficiencies”, *then* they would have theoretically had a net energy gain..
If they legitimately induced fusion with a positive energy gain using that setup, I’m fairly certain they just hit a significant milestone in our history.
forgot to say that the energy required by the lasers to give 2 MJ to the fusion fuel is about 300 MJ because the lasers used had a very low efficiency of about 2-3% and the cilinder had ha 30-50% efficiency (so just 50% of the energy given by the lasers was then given from the cilinder to the fuel), so they selled you a 150% efficiency that was actually a 1% efficiency
@@lucacarbonaro2911 even so, by scaling up and using more efficient lasers you cross the energy threshold. This is absolutely the biggest scientific breakthrough in energy to date
@@lucacarbonaro2911that’s like saying the Wright brothers’ first plane wasn’t that big of a deal because it only lasted 12 seconds and “that’s not going to get anyone anywhere.”
This is incredible to hear. I have a family friend who works at Lawrence Livermore, and he was celebrating when they first broke even months ago - and now we're here.
I'm just wondering why they suddenly need new workers after they basically simulated a nuclear explosion in a lab?(note to people who don't understand a joke, that was a joke)
whats all the hype? Whats so amazing i dont get it... Unlimited energy? Whats the big deal? who cares. Its not like theyre going to give free energy to africans.
That wasn't really the first time the process was "observed". They've been doing nuclear fusion this way since the 80's. There are all sorts of ways people are doing fusion. The true holy grail is cold fusion using muons, using clean fuels. What's new is that more energy was produced, than used to fuse the hydrogen isotopes. But this specific method still uses fuel that ejects high energy neutrons (the same reason Uranium is unpleasant, it ejects high energy neutrons) That's because this method uses tritium (the same stuff needed to make hydrogen bombs), and the neutrons it ejects makes any material it hits radioactive. This is basically an excuse to refine Tritium. Also, Tritium costs $30 000 per gram...because its very rare. The holy grail of fusion would be to use deuterium only. Because this fuel is truly clean, abundant and cheap at $13 per gram (it would get cheaper, if refined more). The problem is, it's really difficult and this process doesnt involve the most critical stuff needed to make hydrogen bombs. If nuclear energy is done the clean way, then there won't be any useful byproducts and fuels to funnel towards bombs.
@@Patchess sure, but it's not exactly what comes to mind by the way OP worded it. Right? We're obviously to infer a hightened state of excitement, but no one is going to connect in their minds a sudden exuberance with seeing some freshly printed data. I was simply remarking on the odd implication. And I wasn't wrong to do so. Understand now?..
This is legitimately the most insane thing I've heard in some time. Producing energy beyond what was put in is already crazy enough but for it to happen that fast is beyond comprehension
@@JackRR15 We have never managed to actually capture more energy than we put in. We have created more energy many times before, but never captured enough to offset the power put in, until now. It's an extreme engineering challenge doing this, but the technique they used here worked.
@@-euphie4872 There's no such thing as "100% solved". I agree that it's a very well known field of physics at the moment but saying there's nothing more to learn about the nature of specific phenomenon is very dangerous, a lot of noble scientists who told the same thing in the last could have confirmed that.
Not really. If nothing travels faster than the speed of light, then somebody can supposedly stop the universe with a special camera!!! Just commenting.
I'm so happy such a historic achievement has been announced by this chill American guy. Imagine reading in a textbook about the first use of coal energy during the Industrial Revolution and seeing a quote from those scientists saying "So, this is pretty cool!"
Many casual observers may not understand the scale of what he just said, and what it will bring, but that man certainly did. He spoke with such a smile on his face as he knew what he was saying was amazing, if the words themselves didn't convey it.
Very true. As a physicist research associate. I can say this is a pivotal moment in history. Interesting to see how large scale implementation will look
@@FAKELIEN Ive thought about the benefits of fusion, and that one hadnt even passed my mind. Honestly, if this is adopted correctly by society and civilisation, it could be the beginning of a new era of humanity, the Fusion Era perhaps?
History in the making. In 200 years from now this day will still be talked about. Congratulations to all who made this possible for humanity. Nobel prize seems like a fitting reward!
This gives me hope for future, that oil has had its day. I’m not completely against oil, but I’m happy that an alternative source is their. Now 200 years of smart harnessing solar energy, smash that technology together.
The ultimate method of making energy is the Total Annihilation of Anti-particles. You turn matter into pure energy by making it touch it's Anti-particle. There is no byproduct. It makes nuclear fusion look insignificant. A few grains of sand worth of this stuff would procude an explosion the size of Hiroshima. We can already make small amounts of it, inefficiently. 200 years from now, they might be using this.
@@Sri_Random_thinGs Fusion Energy is when you extract power/electricity through splitting atoms. These scientis believe they may have learned the process to do so. I am not a nuclear scientist but that is my basic understanding.
@@BubbyBold Fusion is when atomic nuclei are combined or "fused." Fission is when they are split. Nuclear fission is what is used in the nuclear plants we currently have.
I remember my dad was trying to explain what fusion was after watching Back to the Future in the 90s (cuz of the fusion reactor). He said something like "fusion isn't currently possible because we don't have a container big and stable enough to be able to contain the output of fusion". I figured it was something that I'd never get to see in my lifetime, and that was that. So to see this incredible breakthrough is mindblowing. Many thanks and congrats to the team that made it happen!
We still don't have a container that can contain this for more than a billionth of a second. There remains a LOT of scientific and engineering work that needs to happen over the next 20 years for this to bear practical fruit. In the mean time, we still need to advance the science and deployment of other types of energy, including nuclear, solar and (yes) fossil fuels.
@@brunopadovani7347 We don't need containers that can withstand such temperatures. We need magnetic fields strong enough to keep everything far enough from the walls of the container. We can already create such fields. Iter hopefully will be the first big reactor with such tech that we get a working demo at realistic scales.
He speaks like all my professors who are passionate about the subject and love teaching it to their students. Their passion helps me learn and I admire anyone who is like this man.
I wrote a paper in high school physics class on fusion, that was almost 43 years ago. I had hope to see the breakthrough where more emery out than put in. I didn’t think I would see that in my lifetime. Congrats!
How does it feel to find out that 300MJ was required to create the 2MJ input that yielded the 3MJ output. Also can you tell me how much energy and resources are required to create the deuterium tritium fusion fuel?
@@LiveTilliDie that’d also be pretty cool, the fact that one day this will be a normal regular day thing just like electronics is gonna be so weird, for us at least.
i'm on the verge of falling asleep over here but still wonder what this means? do you mind explaining? is there a new enery source or something or a new way of creating energy/electricity?
Now we only need to have technology to store that energy.. That quick.. If we could, we would have been storing energy from lightning strikes already..
@@OriginalThisAndThat No, it's just heat. You use it to power a steam engine, and it doesn't matter how fast it's created, it will need to escape somewhere, and you just put a fluid there and take that heat. You don't need to store the electricity, you just produce it gradually from the heat. Lightnings are different. You can't store electricity that fast I think, but you could use the heat they generate. Only they are too unpredictable, so you would build a lightning power plant big enough to resist the lightning and then you would use it only once a year when a lightning strikes and it would be useless the rest of the year. So it would be a waste of money.
@@AlexanderBC42 He/you did not take into account the power that is needed to power the laser. 2 MJ is just the resulting energy associated with the laser light itself. It takes more than 200 MJ to run the laser.
Congratulations to the team. Wow. This is so f*cking exciting. This was always something of a holy grail and I can’t believe this has happened in my lifetime. They deserve all the accolades.
Pretty much all of our extra-terrestrial science projects depend on Nuclear Fusion. I can't wait to see what they accomplish, once they've fully developed it.
I don't think we can ever FULLY wrap our minds around how incredible this is.... the energy was produced (1 Mega Joule) in LESS time than LIGHT takes to travel just ONE INCH... F**K. Imagine how much energy this could make in just ONE SECOND. Beyond crazy.
The bottleneck is probably the production of the material to fuse, not the speed at which the energy production happen (although it's cool that it's fast). Plus we need more technique as it doesn't produce enough energy yet but I'm sure that will be solved eventually.
And the initial start up energy is WAY more than one megajoule so this whole thing is meaningless until it’s a sustained reaction that can actually outproduce the Cost of ignition. Which typically requires incredible mass larger than Jupiter sized planets. Don’t buy the fusion hype when it’s been nothing but failures marked by hyped up news articles since it’s inception.
Congratulations to everyone who've been waiting for this, working to achieve this, this is a very special moment in human history I guess. It took decades but persistence always pays off.
@@VongolaSekundes That is great news! I hope countries will start working together for a more advancements in science, not for just 1 group of people but for all of mankind😄
This is an amazing first step in reaching real long term stable fusion reactions. Congratulations to everyone involved your work truly will change the world
Let's hope your enthusiasm makes this a reality pretty soon else it's just going to be too late. If I was a betting man I'd be backing " the too late" scenario but live in hope.
@@therflash being able to produce more energy than what’s put in is the ultimate goal of fusion power. Regardless of it’s size and design this experiment will provide important information about how to reach that goal
@@TheLRider Even if we had working Fusion reactors today and everyone and everything in the world switch to clean energy in an instant, it wouldn’t stop the damage that’s already done. We’re on a set track at this point and things are going to get worse. All we can do is try and mitigate as much damage as possible while trying to fix the problem, but even then it will take a long time to recover and we likely won’t see that recovery in our lifetime
I have the utmost respect for people who dedicate their lives to improve the conditions on earth. I am in awe of the collective intellect behind all of this. By far the most exciting news I've read in quite a while. So humbling.
Same for me BUT this research is under the defense program??? So like ... It's not really for the Earth's sake, even if it might be used for it, but only for USA war, which sucks
@@bobjames6622 This will *_never_* be suitable for weapons. It will never be more efficient than already existing nuclear weapon designs. Likewise, it's very hard to see how this method will ever be viable for power either. Magnetic confinement seems much more realistic than implosion.
@@bobjames6622 Not even sure what you're implying, all I'm saying is this is not a viable weapon design, only a potentially workable design that would require new method of non-proliferations control. But it can't replace current designs for nations that have no qualms with obtaining the fissile materials and being public about it.
@@slightlyirradiatedmuffin3257 this is a little more than an incremental improvement. More like monumental - yeah, we're not there yet, but this is a giant step.
This was light years more important then pretty much everything that's happened in the last fifty years. Maybe fifty thousand. Congratulations to the team.
I like that, haha, definitely, but we are still at least 20 years away from it actually being a power source in my opinion , like how long will it will take to replicate , scale and integrate into power infrastructure
@@simonthompson9724 it’s still huge when you consider that this if the first major breakthrough in an energy source that will allow humanity to reach previously unimaginable heights
As a Chemistry/Physics High School Teacher, he explained it really well. Going to show this to my class tomorrow! Big part of why I’m a teacher is to inspire a new generation of scientists to eventually help out in labs and progress science for humanity.
I'm grateful that you have such aspiration to uplift your students for the future... Would you be open minded enough to explore a field of science that would deeply impact your students at a phenomenal level??? If sooo. What are your thoughts on sacred geometry and altered state of consciousness... Now many may not know this but altered states of consciousness to increase creativity, Boost inspiration and fester Extra sensory perception is an actually study and a deeply held practice by many individuals in various fields... Sacred geometry is a wild one and it will connects all the dots in a profound way especially in the realms of physics... Mushrooms are the building block of consciousness accessibility and thus I am wondering if you would be curious enough to dive into higher ways of mindfulness And how it Would impact invention, technology, creativity and such . Ps. I myself have been doing some research and some practical stuff. Amazing things happen within our neurological pathways when they are fired up organically. The subconscious mind works in profound ways .. It's a revolutionary discovery to unlock levels of our mind to aid with inventions and science. I am pleased and thus I wanted to share. Thanks for reading.
Gotta say, I loved physics in high school, and the man who taught it quickly became one of my favorite teachers of all time. Thank you for teaching such a fascinating subject and inspiring children.
'Progress', any progress we make in technology from here on out will only send us into further dismay. More depression, more degeneracy, a less humane world.
This feels like one of the few moments in the past few years I can say that and not mean it in a quasi-nihilistic or sarcastic way... haha. What a time indeed, this is incredible news.
@@johnroberts9131 I haven't researched their project yet, but to achieve fusion in a controlled manner is flabbergasting Yea, I'm obviously congratulating the USA mainly, but also any other country that did contribute to this project
@@peterbelanger4094 I'm sure your ancestors said the same about the telegraph and the horseless carriage. Do you win some sort of internet points for being a downer?
@@peterbelanger4094 Sir, if we can generate more energy for cheaper, energy prices will go down drastically that's the beauty in this Energy prices can become very cheap
I wish we could get the reaction of scientists through the ages to this. What an incredible achievement. I don't know if I'll live long enough to see this developed into anything, I suspect it will take decades, but hopefully my children will if I don't. Thank goodness for the brainiacs out there!
They use Tritirum in the fusion process meaning there isn't enough of that material on Earth. The current world reserve is 20kg. This reminds me of the battery breakthrough that would change the world that they published from a California University a month ago. They just missed to mention that the battery was made out of gold.
@@harounhajem7972 Tritium is expensive to produce but is not akin to gold, it has been used in a multitude of fairly widespread applications for more than half a century. This news is not significant, however, because the NIF is a weapon's research laboratory disguised as a fusion power research laboratory, this experiment relates to inertial confinement fusion, which has no real relation to modern fusion power research.
@@M05tly Thermonuclear bombs. It's also used in radioluminescent lights (for low-light conditions) which are found on gun sights, watches, and tools. Also it's used medically as a radioactive tracer.
Absolutely amazing achievement! Congratulation to all who made this happen, from the janitors to the head scientists, it takes a team to do something like this. Hello to my future Grand kids and Great grand kids, I was here to be alive at this time. Fantastic times ahead!
His speaking reminds me of my a-level physics teacher, Mr. Jackie. He was always cool, keeping things short and simple, which makes his classes always a treat to participate in.
I wish they did this kind of thing for all scientific experiments of this kind! Interesting and concise delivered by someone in the field rather than a news reporter or something
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This is the first time in as long as I can remember where I've felt something akin to optimism for the future of this world. What an amazing achievement!
forgot to say that the energy required by the lasers to give 2 MJ to the fusion fuel is about 300 MJ because the lasers used had a very low efficiency of about 2-3% and the cilinder had ha 30-50% efficiency (so just 50% of the energy given by the lasers was then given from the cilinder to the fuel), so they selled you a 150% efficiency that was actually a 1% efficiency
Marv, you've done it again. This was the easiest most digestible explanation of the nuclear fusion process and breakthrough that I've ever heard. Well done sir, our hats off to you
This is an amazing, momentous achievement. If this progresses well, and engineers and scientists continue their incredible work, maybe not us, but our children and our grandchildren could be living at the dawn of a whole new age. Cheap, clean, and for all intents and purposes, limitless energy.
Energy should be free the universe is basically all energy it's a right people should have even us are made out of energy don't let governments fool you with charging you for something you're already made of to begin with
My friend, I think you severely underestimate the thirst for this to finally happen. This would be like learning cancer is curable, we just need engineers to figure out how to get it into the body. You'll see fusion power in the free market within the decade, perhaps in the next 5 years.
Love your optimises but capitalism will never let that happen. We'll never have free energy under capitalism. It just doesn't make sense. People who make money off of energy will not let that happen. Don't believe me? We had electric vehicles in the 80s. They knew about cigarrette causing cancer in the 50s. We've known about greenhouse gas effects since the 20s. Get my point?
energy will never be free, thery have to control it, also they said the same things about nuclear power that wed all get it cheap but it never ever happened
His enthusiasm and lack of PR-persona was so refreshing. What an awesome way to announce such a huge milestone in energy production and science in general!
This guy explains in 2 minutes what it normally takes a youtuber 15 minutes of bloated elaboration to say. A description of the experiment, the scale of the experiment and energy involved, and most importantly the energy in and energy out. That's all I need. Edit: I don't care that the lasers required 320mj to function. The experiment is for ignition, not a fusion-energy device. Educate yourself.
The youtuber is paid based on how long they can keep the audience watching, and how large of an audience they can bring. There's a monetary incentive to pad out and make videos longer for youtubers. This man had no such incentive.
"HI GUYS WELCOME BACK TO THE CHANNEL DON'T FORGET TO LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE BUT BEFORE WE START I WANT TO MENTION THIS VIDEO'S SPONSOR...." It's like putting my brain in a blender and making a smoothie.
Explaning the most difficult physics processes at a level a ten year old can understand. That requires a very high level of understanding this complex subject. I always try to do the same, but I will never come close to this. 👏🏼
At the same time it's not really rocket science at this point. He just says they destroyed something and produced more energy than they put in. It's not like he explained how a laser works.
This guy is pretty nice and fun to watch, you can see how he transmits the excitement and love for what he does and gives off this pretty down to earth energy! I wish more people were like this in general.
Most people don't even realize the scale of what occurred. They probably think it's just another breaking news, when in reality, it marks the first of the coming future.
This technological breakthrough opens the door for many advancements that were theoretically possible but not previously practical/achievable due to energy constraints
How is this even remotely true? Unless we suddenly developed insanely efficient lasers, the amount of energy actually consumed to produce this much energy is horribly inefficient. The truth is, we are not that far off from where we were yesterday. It’s baffling that people think we suddenly made the impossible possible by this experiment.
@@eufrosniad994 Every journey begins with a single step. This was certainly a step forward - toward bringing us closer to realizing what was once unimaginable
@@eufrosniad994 They just said that they received more power than they put in. Hundreds of previous attempts slowly refined the lasers and improved upon what they learned. this has been in the works for decades globally. I'll probably still be decades before its mainstream but the process is slowing bearing fruit.
You can see just how giddy and excited he is about all of this. I love when people talk about things they're passionate about and his passion bleeds with every word he utters.
What's most awesome about this to me is that it's very possible this video will be shown in classrooms of the next generation. It's not like it hasn't before with other key technologies - Oppenheimer on the bomb, etc.
I love how at 0:48 he goes up on his toes when saying "fusion reation *started*". It shows how he's passionate about the experiment, even though most laymen would consider it boring. Also gotta love his dry... "kinda fast..." comments. I don't know much about nuclear fusion other than that it's what's going on in the sun, and that it's much better than nuclear fission. And that it's the clean and powerful power source of tomorrow that could replace all other energy sources. Hopefully.
Please. More! Please. If ever we needed this to work, now would be the time. This will literally change the course of history. I don’t even want to try to imagine what it would take to build something like this to a scale that you could… light a city… power a fleet of electric buses and trains…. But it seems like we are in the doorway. Keep up the great work.
that's crazy. I am absolutely reluctant at the idea of totally subsituting coal and gas right now because it's an economic disaster but if they actually solve the nuclear fusion problem it becomes actually possible !
@@user-us4mc7ej3c Well the Earth's a few degrees celsius away from irreversible, devastating environmental consequences so they better substitute coal & gas pretty soon
Amazing progress. Lets hope this is the start to solving some or all of our major energy issues around the world. If it is safe and clean or cleaner its a step in the right direction.
This is a huge achievement which proves that nuclear fusion is not just an experiment but can also be an energy source. Congratulations to all the people involved 👏
@@deathninja16 I take it you're not overly familiar with Lawrence Livermore's mission (nuclear weapons stockpile research), or how unrelated this announcement is to anything like commercial energy generation. This is closer to Palpatine's Death Star than a warm light for all humanity.
The experiment from Spiderman 2 became reality. Creating energy by generating a fusion reaction was the basis for the experiment. This is really awesome .
So proud to be part of the same species as these people. Such great work brings me to tears to think how bright the future can be. Well done to all involved lots of love from Australia 😁
@@DrGeorgeAntonios They say anything Announced to the Public was already owned by the Military decades in Advance and may yield possible Commercial Gains in the near Future..
I remember reading or hearing somewhere that the true test of knowing something is not being able to use all the long and clever words but actually being able to effortlessly describe it in laymans terms. This guy knows what he's on about
I've almost failed every science class I've taken, but this guy's explanation both made sense and made me excited. This is such an amazing step for humanity and such wonderful news to hear this week!
This is historic! More energy out than the energy input, safely transmuting hydrogen into helium, like transmitting lead into gold. It's literally like the step from not having fire to harnessing fire. It's like the beginning of Star Trek technology. We did it, now we all know it's possible!
I am expecting some time travellers.😂 And sorry for some poor time travellers who ended up in 2020 accidentally. "We came to see free energy and we ended up in the virus era. Ivanovic, let's ball... Oh wait... let's go to that Cincinati Zoo first."
That's not even true. They required almost 400 times the energy to get it to ignite, then it produced 1.5 times more energy. So the ignition process will need to be massive just to get to where you want.
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Man, they got the right guy to announce this. Explained it very clearly. He made jokes. And most importantly he didn't come off as a highly trained spokesperson. Just as a guy who works in the field and is excited to talk about it.
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Yeah but what are his pronouns? 😆
@@justintime41776 he/square. AKA "what are your pronouns?" Sir, I wear a tie to work and I get excited about high energy physics"
I upset some folks at work when i filled out the "pronouns" section of my profile with "just look at my photo and go with whatever you would have correctly assumed 10 years ago".
Fortunately, when HR chatted to me about this, it was 15 minutes into the meeting when I pointed out that while they were grumbling about pronouns they'd been pronouncing my first name incorrectly the whole time and that before getting worked up about my pronouns, they should figure out my proper nouns.
@@justintime41776 what… what does this have to with anything
The Best kind of guy. I had a History Teacher like him. Cheers!!
This man should do more press conferences, he's kinda cool.
The US government has had this technology for decades and kept it suppressed. Alex Jones said they'd release it soon and pretend it was new technology.
I agree. Wish it was longer. This video was over "kinda fast"
@@Marcus-jt2ff Thats because any longer and normal people would start asking questions instead of just the intelligent ones. Tell me, what is the fuel used?
@@paulmobleyscience Why is your ego so fragile that you have to act the way you do?
@@adrianhenle Do I know you? Do you know me personally? How can you gauge anyone's ego and its frailty by one single comment in a thread? You can't and is only a lame attempt at a character assassination of a complete stranger you know absolutely nothing about. Why would one single comment evoke such a gross opinion of a complete stranger? Because you have nothing better to do than to troll comments and act as if you know the people you're commenting to. Right
Everyone would love science if this guy explained it all to us
@Woozy Tritium/Deuterium is used....what do you know about the difference between in biological Half-life of just tritium at 12-30 days and Organically Bound Tritium?
@@paulmobleyscience Tell us, what do YOU know about it? Probably not much given the nonsensical nature of your "question" and bizarre random capitalizations.
@@paulmobleyscience I'm assuming that means the element is contained within a living thing. I have no idea though. Um and why are you asking me?
Corruption is still there in us politicians scenes
@@supermarioisacat OBT is tritium taken up in plantlife where during the metabolic process it either replaces hydrogen in the cell or binds directly to the cell forming Organically Bound Tritium. "OBT causes DNA strand breaks, micronucleus formations, cell necrosis or apoptosis, chromosomal aberrations and various other phenomena thus negatively affecting human health." End quote.....genius
This has the potential to be one of the biggest game changers in all of human history, I'm glad I got to be here for it.
It will be stifled just like nuclear power is now....
What can we do with this knowledge
@@lynashmcmash4427 yea, a lot chaotic power for wars.
@@lynashmcmash4427 Generate lots of energy.
@@lynashmcmash4427 it will be used for evil purposes by the gop.
What you see on this man’s face and hear in his voice is the pride and joy of a man who’s life’s work has just gotten a bit closer to coming to fruition.
more like "coming to fusion"
@@the40yearoldgamer41 You beat me to it in less time than it takes light to ....
@@stephenpain9236 kinda fast 😏
He put the ball over the line
Or a nerd
I wish the mainstream media would give this more attention than a 1 and a half minute clip on RUclips. This is truly a momentous achievement, and one that should be acknowledged, and celebrated across the world.
They won't show it much because it goes against what they are trying to push which is green energy, like solar panels, those windmills that can explode if the winds are too much or if the turbine fails..
this is actually green energy. Mainstream media/liberals dont like things that actually solve problems.
It won't be celebrated across the world until it's weaponized, and the governments get to flex discipline while holding the highest known level of humanity's demise. Hopefully the scientists receive a noble peace prize for this revolution. However, nuclear fusion may have unintended consequences as a whole.
@geeky zebra This is also considered a field of "green energy." Fusion has been in the news for a very long time, and unfortunately, it has been slow to mature, so it never stole the spotlight. On the other hand, solar panels and windmills are real and produce real power beyond the input power. This was momentus, but this took decades. We need to do what they did for nanoseconds continuously, without interruption, to make a difference in the world.
@@jiggitydazzle84 Glad you completely misunderstood what this means, therefore proving why the media doesn't do stories like this. Because the vast majority of people can't understand it, nor could the reporters, they don't even bother doing massive stories on these topics. This guy had to dumb it down so much because it would take an hours long lecture just to explain how the lasers outputted 2MJ even though they put in 400MJ worth of energy to do it. This is quite an achievement, but FAR from collecting more energy than was put into the process.
Until now, explaining the fusion achievement in clear, detailed, easy to understand terms in under 2 minutes was apparently deemed impossible by network news executives. Another breakthrough! 👏
It takes my chem teacher 45 minutes😂
I dont want to scare anyone about the lower lifeforms in our species but... As soon as he said Xray I may as well have been in a different room.
When he said we're hiring however... my ears perked up. I think if people ever listened to me all of humanity would be at risk. Lol
When you fully understand a subject you can explain it in simple terms.
@@bassmunk yeah. My chem teacher just has a measly teaching degree
@@tuftyterror983 I rather hear your chemistry teacher
Because my mind can't stand missing gaps of summarized knowledge.
“So this is pretty cool.” “We’re hiring!”
A succinct summary of fusion energy followed by a rising call to arms! Words to stand the test of time, surely
this comment is utterly right dude
funny I just watched an Oppenheimer trailer before this...
@@themayhemera3046 Fusion does not produce radioactive byproducts unlike fission. No nuclear waste.
@@bohemiankhichdi1090 Ahh ok, I see. Thanks for the info!
They still can weaponize it or made it as a power source for multiple Direct Energy Weapons 😬
You can tell he’s beaming with pride while talking about this, and he should be proud. This is a turning point for civilization, and I can’t believe I lived to see it.
Lol, relax your horses.
@@viktorpettersson9975 this is a turning point for civilization, be excited
fusion rockets are now a reality
i hope it is. i hope greedy people dont get involved and ruin it for humanity.
USA is third world country, and will never be able to lead the world
Dr. Marvin Adams's delivery was excellent. What a historic moment in fusion research. Once something is realized as possible, things tend to quickly take off.
I hope so. But is this thermal breakeven or electrical current breakeven? That's a big difference...
That would be incredible. I’ve dreamed of going to space my whole life but before today I probably never would have believed it was possible. This is a great first step
@@olearysbf6580 Corruption is a trait common in all human societies. Feel free to google corruption scandals in Europe, China, Japan, India, South Korea, Russia, Brazil, and South Africa.
@@olearysbf6580 corruption exists everywhere there are people
@@FuriousImp Must've been thermal since you need equipment to convert the energy to electricity (which is kinda useless in a lab setting).
He sounds so proud, that's amazing what they managed to do! Congratulations to the team and everyone else who contributed to this!
Americans should be proud of this !!!! I am !
@@IrishSetter01 Everyone should
I agree, you can hear how much he's enjoying what's happend and it makes us understand better how momentus it is just by seing him :)
@@IrishSetter01 it’s garbage
Considering a fusion reactor was deemed impossible in our lifetime. Fusion is one thing but they just created a mini reactor in a sense
Such a significant scientific milestone for humanity. One that most people don’t understand or appreciate.
Sorry to break it to you that the material that they use in the experiment is so rare, total of 20kg on Earth, that this won't make a difference.
@@harounhajem7972 Doesn’t matter. It’s still significant.
people are Not as stoopid as you think.
@@harounhajem7972even if it’s one of the only ways to reproduce this, I’m sure things like asteroid mining will be a huge help in due time
@@harounhajem7972what material did they use?
I love his level of calmness. There's no need to "sell" or hype up anything. It's like when you impressively succeed and you don't have to worry about going over minor issues. You did it.
Edit: hey ya'll, just so ya'll know I ain't reading these comments
He did hype it but you did not understand the deception. He did not account for the total input energy from the outside system that was used to run lasers.
@@usneome I'm completely impartial and just a casual observer here. Can you point us to some information that challenges this?
It’s nuclear fusion it sells itself 😂
@@usneomeyes he did that’s what made this test different from the rest for the first time there was a power gain
No need to sell or hype when everybody watching is thinking "this will change civilization".
I read about nuclear fusion in 7th grade & I'm so happy to be alive to witness this achievement. Congratulations to all the scientists involved throughout the decades for this.
Well that would be nuclear fusion created naturally without human interference 😐this is man made 😐no human can ever create a star naturally 😐even so this is a milestone but their are problems 😑one like anything dealing with nuker fusion if every factory in the us does nuker energy they have to be aware of nuker meltdown from power failures and natural disasters 😐
What grade are you in now?
@@chobo9724 This was over a decade ago
@@Seaneey so like grade 10?
@@chickennuggets1837 That's horrible math skills 😆
This is exactly the kind of public facing image that is needed in science. Not just to explain vast complexities in the simplest form but also to inspire the younger generations.
its also cool that he doesnt mystify it
Sadly the antivaxxers and flat earthers are more prevalent and shout louder
People know more about celebrities than scientists
Except he’s doing it deceptively.. The reaction actually consumed over 300 megajoules to produce. In practical terms, it took a hundred times the energy put in, to generate 3 megajoules of output. He is absolutely mystifying and convoluting it, just doing so calmly. They’re estimating that the lasers were just real inefficient. They believe only 2.05 megajoules, of the hundreds of megajoules consumed to produce this, actually reached the target and if they could get rid of all the “estimated inefficiencies”, *then* they would have theoretically had a net energy gain..
@@aalvarez2914 source
Another amazing step in humanity’s quest for energy! What a tremendous accomplishment!!!
nice try, plasma wisp from kirby. you just want humans to make more energy so you can EATED all of it
@@alleg0re whaaaat? nooo
@@dislikereporter2271 yeah. yeah i got em on camera
@@alleg0re 😂😂😂
If they legitimately induced fusion with a positive energy gain using that setup, I’m fairly certain they just hit a significant milestone in our history.
forgot to say that the energy required by the lasers to give 2 MJ to the fusion fuel is about 300 MJ because the lasers used had a very low efficiency of about 2-3% and the cilinder had ha 30-50% efficiency (so just 50% of the energy given by the lasers was then given from the cilinder to the fuel), so they selled you a 150% efficiency that was actually a 1% efficiency
@@lucacarbonaro2911 even so, by scaling up and using more efficient lasers you cross the energy threshold. This is absolutely the biggest scientific breakthrough in energy to date
@@lucacarbonaro2911that’s like saying the Wright brothers’ first plane wasn’t that big of a deal because it only lasted 12 seconds and “that’s not going to get anyone anywhere.”
@@MadnanTheArcher no bro they fooled you
@@MadnanTheArcher they need to do it with hydrogen, deuterium and tritium will never be scalable
This is incredible to hear. I have a family friend who works at Lawrence Livermore, and he was celebrating when they first broke even months ago - and now we're here.
the only verifiable and legitimate experiment that has produced sustained fusion is the SAFIRExperiment.
I'm just wondering why they suddenly need new workers after they basically simulated a nuclear explosion in a lab?(note to people who don't understand a joke, that was a joke)
How am I hearing this 4 days after the fact. This should be top news around the globe! Amazing breakthrough!
It's been all over the news
I've seen it on lots of news channels
either you've been off the grid or your algorithms are wacky because I've seen it everywhere and people around me have talked about it.
whats all the hype? Whats so amazing i dont get it...
Unlimited energy? Whats the big deal? who cares. Its not like theyre going to give free energy to africans.
Yeah its amazing, but the payoff is 40 years away.
Imagine how the researchers felt observing this for the first time. Fantastic work.
I think they could have only observed the data, after the fact..
@@SineEyed that is... still observation....
@@SineEyed That’s the definition of an observation. Do you…. Observe things before they happen? Cause if so, you need to be up on that stage too lol
That wasn't really the first time the process was "observed". They've been doing nuclear fusion this way since the 80's.
There are all sorts of ways people are doing fusion. The true holy grail is cold fusion using muons, using clean fuels.
What's new is that more energy was produced, than used to fuse the hydrogen isotopes.
But this specific method still uses fuel that ejects high energy neutrons (the same reason Uranium is unpleasant, it ejects high energy neutrons)
That's because this method uses tritium (the same stuff needed to make hydrogen bombs), and the neutrons it ejects makes any material it hits radioactive.
This is basically an excuse to refine Tritium. Also, Tritium costs $30 000 per gram...because its very rare.
The holy grail of fusion would be to use deuterium only. Because this fuel is truly clean, abundant and cheap at $13 per gram (it would get cheaper, if refined more). The problem is, it's really difficult and this process doesnt involve the most critical stuff needed to make hydrogen bombs.
If nuclear energy is done the clean way, then there won't be any useful byproducts and fuels to funnel towards bombs.
@@Patchess sure, but it's not exactly what comes to mind by the way OP worded it. Right? We're obviously to infer a hightened state of excitement, but no one is going to connect in their minds a sudden exuberance with seeing some freshly printed data. I was simply remarking on the odd implication. And I wasn't wrong to do so. Understand now?..
This is legitimately the most insane thing I've heard in some time. Producing energy beyond what was put in is already crazy enough but for it to happen that fast is beyond comprehension
Wait so, did they do these experiment with not expecting this? What I mean is, do we know why this happens or is this still a mystery?
@@JackRR15 the physics of this is 100% solved. It's just an engineering problem at this point
@@JackRR15 We have never managed to actually capture more energy than we put in. We have created more energy many times before, but never captured enough to offset the power put in, until now. It's an extreme engineering challenge doing this, but the technique they used here worked.
@@-euphie4872 There's no such thing as "100% solved". I agree that it's a very well known field of physics at the moment but saying there's nothing more to learn about the nature of specific phenomenon is very dangerous, a lot of noble scientists who told the same thing in the last could have confirmed that.
Not really. If nothing travels faster than the speed of light, then somebody can supposedly stop the universe with a special camera!!! Just commenting.
I'm so happy such a historic achievement has been announced by this chill American guy. Imagine reading in a textbook about the first use of coal energy during the Industrial Revolution and seeing a quote from those scientists saying "So, this is pretty cool!"
Many casual observers may not understand the scale of what he just said, and what it will bring, but that man certainly did. He spoke with such a smile on his face as he knew what he was saying was amazing, if the words themselves didn't convey it.
Very true. As a physicist research associate. I can say this is a pivotal moment in history. Interesting to see how large scale implementation will look
Exactly, this could improve billions of lives, imagine not worrying about water because you can desalinate it without burning fossil fuels.
@@FAKELIEN Ive thought about the benefits of fusion, and that one hadnt even passed my mind.
Honestly, if this is adopted correctly by society and civilisation, it could be the beginning of a new era of humanity, the Fusion Era perhaps?
@@harrytaylor9564 Cheap energy would boost economies all over, thus everyone would get better off.. and then AI comes in and destroys everything. :D
All countries with oil as their major export😭😭😭
When people can easily explain things, you know that they know what they’re talking about.
Be careful using this approach.
If you can't explain something simply, then you don't know it well enough
This speech was prepared for him. This presentation says nothing of the individual, only the PR team.
Not saying he must be right, but didn't Einstein said the exact opposite of that?
@@stephen2992 One of my favorite Albert Einstein quotes.
History in the making. In 200 years from now this day will still be talked about. Congratulations to all who made this possible for humanity. Nobel prize seems like a fitting reward!
This gives me hope for future, that oil has had its day. I’m not completely against oil, but I’m happy that an alternative source is their. Now 200 years of smart harnessing solar energy, smash that technology together.
@@gingerssmelllikecabbageand8708 200 years from now we will be skipping solar energy entirely, at least in the surface of the planet.
Civilzation will collapse before then. Climate change and its pressures will make people go nuts.
Or perhaps, we will destroy each other with this new technology. Just give it time and you will see.
The ultimate method of making energy is the Total Annihilation of Anti-particles. You turn matter into pure energy by making it touch it's Anti-particle. There is no byproduct.
It makes nuclear fusion look insignificant. A few grains of sand worth of this stuff would procude an explosion the size of Hiroshima.
We can already make small amounts of it, inefficiently. 200 years from now, they might be using this.
Amazing group of scientists and it's always cool when the world takes a step forward with more knowledge.
Can u plz explain me in simple words about this experiment
@@Sri_Random_thinGs Fusion Energy is when you extract power/electricity through splitting atoms.
These scientis believe they may have learned the process to do so.
I am not a nuclear scientist but that is my basic understanding.
@@BubbyBold Fusion is when atomic nuclei are combined or "fused." Fission is when they are split. Nuclear fission is what is used in the nuclear plants we currently have.
Thank you, but 20% of us Americans believe in angels.... So it's really the 3% with PhDs doing the heavy lifting here
@@m1thras you are correct, I meant to type fission instead of fusion.
I remember my dad was trying to explain what fusion was after watching Back to the Future in the 90s (cuz of the fusion reactor). He said something like "fusion isn't currently possible because we don't have a container big and stable enough to be able to contain the output of fusion". I figured it was something that I'd never get to see in my lifetime, and that was that.
So to see this incredible breakthrough is mindblowing. Many thanks and congrats to the team that made it happen!
Your dad is smarting than mine.
There's no way you remembered that.
@@chudyie Memory is goofy ahh
We still don't have a container that can contain this for more than a billionth of a second. There remains a LOT of scientific and engineering work that needs to happen over the next 20 years for this to bear practical fruit. In the mean time, we still need to advance the science and deployment of other types of energy, including nuclear, solar and (yes) fossil fuels.
@@brunopadovani7347 We don't need containers that can withstand such temperatures. We need magnetic fields strong enough to keep everything far enough from the walls of the container. We can already create such fields. Iter hopefully will be the first big reactor with such tech that we get a working demo at realistic scales.
He speaks like all my professors who are passionate about the subject and love teaching it to their students. Their passion helps me learn and I admire anyone who is like this man.
I'm just glad that people are aware of what a huge change this could be for all of humanity.
Humans will still find a way to fight over it
He's like that one teacher that you always enjoyed going to class to hear.
I wrote a paper in high school physics class on fusion, that was almost 43 years ago. I had hope to see the breakthrough where more emery out than put in. I didn’t think I would see that in my lifetime. Congrats!
It has to be quite the feeling to write about something so long ago and see it happen!
How does it feel to find out that 300MJ was required to create the 2MJ input that yielded the 3MJ output. Also can you tell me how much energy and resources are required to create the deuterium tritium fusion fuel?
I just wish we would get a real breakthrough that doesn't continue the rhetoric of the technology being 20-30 years away every decade.
@@buckbuckleyson2259 Agreed
You mean energy but Yes.
I remember being a kid playing Command and Conquer thinking fusion tech was close, but maybe not in my lifetime. Insane.
The technology of peace! Peace through power! Lol
@@HistoryTeacherSteve a lot of people don’t realize what this means.
@@R3XoXo Kane lives!
Tbh, it's still not in your lifetime.
@@R3XoXo so what does it mean?
This is honestly exiting, such a breakthrough doesn’t come often and i’m glad i was alive when it happened.
I'm assuming the only reason they are annoying it is because the experiment has been repeatable
I hope I live long enough to see its common use though! lol
@@LiveTilliDie that’d also be pretty cool, the fact that one day this will be a normal regular day thing just like electronics is gonna be so weird, for us at least.
Indeed very exiting
i'm on the verge of falling asleep over here but still wonder what this means? do you mind explaining? is there a new enery source or something or a new way of creating energy/electricity?
You see the excitement in his eyes when he tells how fast the energy production was.
Absolutely, a yield of 30% is massive!
Now we only need to have technology to store that energy.. That quick.. If we could, we would have been storing energy from lightning strikes already..
@@OriginalThisAndThat No, it's just heat. You use it to power a steam engine, and it doesn't matter how fast it's created, it will need to escape somewhere, and you just put a fluid there and take that heat. You don't need to store the electricity, you just produce it gradually from the heat. Lightnings are different. You can't store electricity that fast I think, but you could use the heat they generate. Only they are too unpredictable, so you would build a lightning power plant big enough to resist the lightning and then you would use it only once a year when a lightning strikes and it would be useless the rest of the year. So it would be a waste of money.
@@AlexanderBC42 He/you did not take into account the power that is needed to power the laser. 2 MJ is just the resulting energy associated with the laser light itself. It takes more than 200 MJ to run the laser.
Congratulations to the team. Wow. This is so f*cking exciting. This was always something of a holy grail and I can’t believe this has happened in my lifetime. They deserve all the accolades.
About exciting as vd
@@animalbird9436 vaginal discharge?
reported for using the F word
Pretty much all of our extra-terrestrial science projects depend on Nuclear Fusion. I can't wait to see what they accomplish, once they've fully developed it.
@@e2k220 reported you for reporting
I genuinely did not believe we could do this in my lifetime. I hope to live long enough to see where this leads!
@@JUNGLEJUICEJONES War is going to end us all
@@JUNGLEJUICEJONES why war? 😱😭
It will lead to you receiving an energy bill for 300 dollars a month. Ya think THATS gonna change? Nope. Pay up, or we'll shut your power off.
@@JUNGLEJUICEJONES 🤣 idk why but this made me laugh
@@pamelathompson6783 nuclear fission -> nuclear bomb, nuclear fusion -> ???
I could really relax just listening to him talk about fusion for hours.
I don't think we can ever FULLY wrap our minds around how incredible this is.... the energy was produced (1 Mega Joule) in LESS time than LIGHT takes to travel just ONE INCH... F**K. Imagine how much energy this could make in just ONE SECOND. Beyond crazy.
Just saying, you probably don't want to make that much energy for one second.
The bottleneck is probably the production of the material to fuse, not the speed at which the energy production happen (although it's cool that it's fast). Plus we need more technique as it doesn't produce enough energy yet but I'm sure that will be solved eventually.
And the initial start up energy is WAY more than one megajoule so this whole thing is meaningless until it’s a sustained reaction that can actually outproduce the Cost of ignition. Which typically requires incredible mass larger than Jupiter sized planets.
Don’t buy the fusion hype when it’s been nothing but failures marked by hyped up news articles since it’s inception.
You type of people who believe in unicorn
He didnt say MEGA did he
Congratulations to everyone who've been waiting for this, working to achieve this, this is a very special moment in human history I guess. It took decades but persistence always pays off.
it's not too late. we can still end our species if we act fast
China did it too so hope everyone including you won't be politically motivated to say anything otherwise. great message you wrote there
thanks
@@VongolaSekundes That is great news! I hope countries will start working together for a more advancements in science, not for just 1 group of people but for all of mankind😄
@@VongolaSekundes china steals ip anyway
hehe
Dude offers a job at the end of that presentation.. total legend.👏🏽
This is an amazing first step in reaching real long term stable fusion reactions. Congratulations to everyone involved your work truly will change the world
It's not a first step, it's hardly a step. This is a pulsed device working on vastly different principles.
Let's hope your enthusiasm makes this a reality pretty soon else it's just going to be too late. If I was a betting man I'd be backing " the too late" scenario but live in hope.
@@therflash being able to produce more energy than what’s put in is the ultimate goal of fusion power. Regardless of it’s size and design this experiment will provide important information about how to reach that goal
@@TheLRider Even if we had working Fusion reactors today and everyone and everything in the world switch to clean energy in an instant, it wouldn’t stop the damage that’s already done. We’re on a set track at this point and things are going to get worse. All we can do is try and mitigate as much damage as possible while trying to fix the problem, but even then it will take a long time to recover and we likely won’t see that recovery in our lifetime
Nothing will change. The general public is not allowed to have access to lots of inexpensive energy.
I have the utmost respect for people who dedicate their lives to improve the conditions on earth. I am in awe of the collective intellect behind all of this.
By far the most exciting news I've read in quite a while. So humbling.
Get back to work, wagie.
And yet, the water powered car will never be made a reality. :'c
@@InFamaz74 the future of such a car is dubious
its always the great USA
Same for me BUT this research is under the defense program??? So like ... It's not really for the Earth's sake, even if it might be used for it, but only for USA war, which sucks
I’m legit blown away, this is fantastic
This is probably the biggest invention of our lifetime, this could be the start of a new era.
Sustainable fusion perhaps will be, but not this. This is an incremental improvement to something that's been going on for a while.
@@bobjames6622 This will *_never_* be suitable for weapons. It will never be more efficient than already existing nuclear weapon designs.
Likewise, it's very hard to see how this method will ever be viable for power either. Magnetic confinement seems much more realistic than implosion.
@@bobjames6622 Not even sure what you're implying, all I'm saying is this is not a viable weapon design, only a potentially workable design that would require new method of non-proliferations control. But it can't replace current designs for nations that have no qualms with obtaining the fissile materials and being public about it.
Corruption is still there in us politicians scenes
@@slightlyirradiatedmuffin3257 this is a little more than an incremental improvement. More like monumental - yeah, we're not there yet, but this is a giant step.
This was light years more important then pretty much everything that's happened in the last fifty years. Maybe fifty thousand. Congratulations to the team.
I like that, haha, definitely, but we are still at least 20 years away from it actually being a power source in my opinion , like how long will it will take to replicate , scale and integrate into power infrastructure
@@simonthompson9724 it’s still huge when you consider that this if the first major breakthrough in an energy source that will allow humanity to reach previously unimaginable heights
@@simonthompson9724 Its always been at least 20 years away and that is how it will stay.
I don't know-- the internet is pretty hard to top, frankly.
Wow buddy when we removed genders from bathrooms was way more important. Get that right.
Marv needs to do more of these. His comedic timing and the way he easily explains everything is perfect.
This is history in the making right here and I am glad to be living in the moment of it.
As a Chemistry/Physics High School Teacher, he explained it really well. Going to show this to my class tomorrow! Big part of why I’m a teacher is to inspire a new generation of scientists to eventually help out in labs and progress science for humanity.
I'm grateful that you have such aspiration to uplift your students for the future...
Would you be open minded enough to explore a field of science that would deeply impact your students at a phenomenal level???
If sooo. What are your thoughts on sacred geometry and altered state of consciousness...
Now many may not know this but altered states of consciousness to increase creativity, Boost inspiration and fester Extra sensory perception is an actually study and a deeply held practice by many individuals in various fields...
Sacred geometry is a wild one and it will connects all the dots in a profound way especially in the realms of physics...
Mushrooms are the building block of consciousness accessibility and thus I am wondering if you would be curious enough to dive into higher ways of mindfulness
And how it Would impact invention, technology, creativity and such .
Ps. I myself have been doing some research and some practical stuff. Amazing things happen within our neurological pathways when they are fired up organically.
The subconscious mind works in profound ways ..
It's a revolutionary discovery to unlock levels of our mind to aid with inventions and science.
I am pleased and thus I wanted to share. Thanks for reading.
Gotta say, I loved physics in high school, and the man who taught it quickly became one of my favorite teachers of all time. Thank you for teaching such a fascinating subject and inspiring children.
Salute to teachers, the future depends on you guys.
'Progress', any progress we make in technology from here on out will only send us into further dismay. More depression, more degeneracy, a less humane world.
@@faramund9865 Wrong.
What a time to be alive
This feels like one of the few moments in the past few years I can say that and not mean it in a quasi-nihilistic or sarcastic way... haha.
What a time indeed, this is incredible news.
Corruption is still there in us politicians
Congrats to everyone who worked on this project and the nations that facilitated their success, it's a historical moment
Wel, it was USA duh lol.
@@johnroberts9131 I haven't researched their project yet, but to achieve fusion in a controlled manner is flabbergasting
Yea, I'm obviously congratulating the USA mainly, but also any other country that did contribute to this project
Congratulations on something that will go nowhere. The people are not allowed to have access to that much energy.
@@peterbelanger4094 I'm sure your ancestors said the same about the telegraph and the horseless carriage. Do you win some sort of internet points for being a downer?
@@peterbelanger4094 Sir, if we can generate more energy for cheaper, energy prices will go down drastically that's the beauty in this
Energy prices can become very cheap
I wish we could get the reaction of scientists through the ages to this. What an incredible achievement. I don't know if I'll live long enough to see this developed into anything, I suspect it will take decades, but hopefully my children will if I don't. Thank goodness for the brainiacs out there!
You're welcome
They use Tritirum in the fusion process meaning there isn't enough of that material on Earth. The current world reserve is 20kg. This reminds me of the battery breakthrough that would change the world that they published from a California University a month ago. They just missed to mention that the battery was made out of gold.
@@harounhajem7972 Tritium is expensive to produce but is not akin to gold, it has been used in a multitude of fairly widespread applications for more than half a century. This news is not significant, however, because the NIF is a weapon's research laboratory disguised as a fusion power research laboratory, this experiment relates to inertial confinement fusion, which has no real relation to modern fusion power research.
@@AC-fg4kg what is its main application?
@@M05tly Thermonuclear bombs. It's also used in radioluminescent lights (for low-light conditions) which are found on gun sights, watches, and tools. Also it's used medically as a radioactive tracer.
Absolutely amazing achievement! Congratulation to all who made this happen, from the janitors to the head scientists, it takes a team to do something like this. Hello to my future Grand kids and Great grand kids, I was here to be alive at this time. Fantastic times ahead!
I’m sure the Janitors were integral to the process…
@@Dragon_Fyre Will Hunting may be their janitor, you don't know
@@shawnburke5393 So weird I watched that movie yesterday....
@@Dragon_Fyre They definitely helped more than you did.
@@CWINDOWSsystem32 hahahahaha
Amazing how much energy is created upon fusion. Such an incredibly small timescale but such a relatively large amount of energy.
They'll be dead or rich for creating energy.
@@butters4596 not possible butters: 1st law of thermodynamics. We may find the key to unlock though!
@@malvernwarmington4942 So stars violate the 1st law of thermodynamics?🤔
@@nicok.1491 no, energy changed or transformed from one form to another.
@@malvernwarmington4942 This is fusion and stars also fuse atoms, namely hydrogen into helium.
His speaking reminds me of my a-level physics teacher, Mr. Jackie. He was always cool, keeping things short and simple, which makes his classes always a treat to participate in.
A professional can explain to a professional, an expert can explain to everyone.
It sounds like your teacher was the expert type.
You were lucky.
I wish they did this kind of thing for all scientific experiments of this kind! Interesting and concise delivered by someone in the field rather than a news reporter or something
for those of you outside the US - a BB is a small spherical projectile or single shot, made mostly of steel but of copper color that is about 4.5mm in diameter
lol bb guns exist outside the U.S. come on, man. lol
@@aaronhutchen1319 yeah, but are they called BB guns?
Using ammo as unit of measuring is so on brand for Americans
Dude both can and can't contain himself throughout the announcement and tops it off with a "pretty cool" 😂😂 purely marvelous
This is the first time in as long as I can remember where I've felt something akin to optimism for the future of this world. What an amazing achievement!
Same!!
forgot to say that the energy required by the lasers to give 2 MJ to the fusion fuel is about 300 MJ because the lasers used had a very low efficiency of about 2-3% and the cilinder had ha 30-50% efficiency (so just 50% of the energy given by the lasers was then given from the cilinder to the fuel), so they selled you a 150% efficiency that was actually a 1% efficiency
Marv, you've done it again. This was the easiest most digestible explanation of the nuclear fusion process and breakthrough that I've ever heard. Well done sir, our hats off to you
What an incredible moment for humanity! The importance of this achievement simply cannot be overstated!
I think u mean overstated but yes
@@philoneussquire3877 thanks, fixed it. Was quite tired after work when I commented
Yawn
Leftist activists will still find a way to smear and shut down fusion regardless, and already are.
I dont understand. What can we do with this fusion thing?
This is an amazing, momentous achievement. If this progresses well, and engineers and scientists continue their incredible work, maybe not us, but our children and our grandchildren could be living at the dawn of a whole new age. Cheap, clean, and for all intents and purposes, limitless energy.
Energy should be free the universe is basically all energy it's a right people should have even us are made out of energy don't let governments fool you with charging you for something you're already made of to begin with
My friend, I think you severely underestimate the thirst for this to finally happen. This would be like learning cancer is curable, we just need engineers to figure out how to get it into the body. You'll see fusion power in the free market within the decade, perhaps in the next 5 years.
intents*
Love your optimises but capitalism will never let that happen. We'll never have free energy under capitalism. It just doesn't make sense. People who make money off of energy will not let that happen.
Don't believe me? We had electric vehicles in the 80s. They knew about cigarrette causing cancer in the 50s. We've known about greenhouse gas effects since the 20s. Get my point?
energy will never be free, thery have to control it, also they said the same things about nuclear power that wed all get it cheap but it never ever happened
His enthusiasm and lack of PR-persona was so refreshing. What an awesome way to announce such a huge milestone in energy production and science in general!
I love how happy he is describing this momentous event.
This guy explains in 2 minutes what it normally takes a youtuber 15 minutes of bloated elaboration to say. A description of the experiment, the scale of the experiment and energy involved, and most importantly the energy in and energy out. That's all I need.
Edit: I don't care that the lasers required 320mj to function. The experiment is for ignition, not a fusion-energy device. Educate yourself.
The youtuber is paid based on how long they can keep the audience watching, and how large of an audience they can bring.
There's a monetary incentive to pad out and make videos longer for youtubers.
This man had no such incentive.
@@alexjgilpin yes we all know this
@@vyn8594 its also the fact that Marv can break down complex interactions into simple, concise explanations due to his expertise and understanding.
Neil D T just released a 14 min video on this topic 😳 🤣
"HI GUYS WELCOME BACK TO THE CHANNEL DON'T FORGET TO LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE BUT BEFORE WE START I WANT TO MENTION THIS VIDEO'S SPONSOR...." It's like putting my brain in a blender and making a smoothie.
Explaning the most difficult physics processes at a level a ten year old can understand. That requires a very high level of understanding this complex subject. I always try to do the same, but I will never come close to this. 👏🏼
At the same time it's not really rocket science at this point. He just says they destroyed something and produced more energy than they put in. It's not like he explained how a laser works.
@@Trip_mania Maybe I wasn't clear, but I meant this more in general.
@@robrommens660 you were very clear.
@Tiltorn the point is to keep it at a level where people who don't know physics can have a comprehension, and people who do know physics do as well.
This guy is pretty nice and fun to watch, you can see how he transmits the excitement and love for what he does and gives off this pretty down to earth energy!
I wish more people were like this in general.
“Transmits”?? lemme catch my son saying someone “transmits”
We need this step, very very badly right now... thanks to the people who are involved, all of you!
Possibly the greatest breakthrough in this century
"so this is pretty cool"
Most people don't even realize the scale of what occurred. They probably think it's just another breaking news, when in reality, it marks the first of the coming future.
Well done Americans hopefully this is going to bring a brighter future for us all
😆Speaking as an American: We'll just slap some cheese on it and eat it.
Haven't heard this in 30 years or more.
@@ge2623 luckily there’s more than one type of American, but you’ll do what you wish.
Venenats
This is science, not nationalism.
@@ge2623 Speaking as an American: please don’t speak for the rest of us, thanks
This technological breakthrough opens the door for many advancements that were theoretically possible but not previously practical/achievable due to energy constraints
How is this even remotely true? Unless we suddenly developed insanely efficient lasers, the amount of energy actually consumed to produce this much energy is horribly inefficient. The truth is, we are not that far off from where we were yesterday. It’s baffling that people think we suddenly made the impossible possible by this experiment.
@@eufrosniad994 Every journey begins with a single step. This was certainly a step forward - toward bringing us closer to realizing what was once unimaginable
@@eufrosniad994 They just said that they received more power than they put in. Hundreds of previous attempts slowly refined the lasers and improved upon what they learned. this has been in the works for decades globally. I'll probably still be decades before its mainstream but the process is slowing bearing fruit.
Have we ever had an experiment like this one. That shows we can get more energy out than we put in?
@@Spabsa There has never been an experiment where more energy is output than is put in and that includes this one.
You can tell this was written so a child could understand, very nice.
I feel we as a society really needed this..whatever this may become
You can see just how giddy and excited he is about all of this. I love when people talk about things they're passionate about and his passion bleeds with every word he utters.
8l
"So this is pretty cool"
Understatement of the Century
Man Physicists are one of the coolest people. They know so much that even if they simplify it many would not understand.
Amazing press conference, love his sense of humor
Simply incredible. Well done to everyone involved, you're paving the way for the future.
It's a fusion weapon research project. Let's hope they're not paving the way for the future.
What's most awesome about this to me is that it's very possible this video will be shown in classrooms of the next generation. It's not like it hasn't before with other key technologies - Oppenheimer on the bomb, etc.
So glad I’ll be out of school by then
I love how at 0:48 he goes up on his toes when saying "fusion reation *started*". It shows how he's passionate about the experiment, even though most laymen would consider it boring. Also gotta love his dry... "kinda fast..." comments.
I don't know much about nuclear fusion other than that it's what's going on in the sun, and that it's much better than nuclear fission. And that it's the clean and powerful power source of tomorrow that could replace all other energy sources. Hopefully.
Please. More! Please. If ever we needed this to work, now would be the time. This will literally change the course of history. I don’t even want to try to imagine what it would take to build something like this to a scale that you could… light a city… power a fleet of electric buses and trains…. But it seems like we are in the doorway. Keep up the great work.
that's crazy. I am absolutely reluctant at the idea of totally subsituting coal and gas right now because it's an economic disaster but if they actually solve the nuclear fusion problem it becomes actually possible !
We're in the doorway of a corridor that will take decades to come to the end of.
@@user-us4mc7ej3c Well the Earth's a few degrees celsius away from irreversible, devastating environmental consequences so they better substitute coal & gas pretty soon
@@ssc6386 settle down Greta we're working on it.
@@Potato-mu7nu How dare you
A “kinda fast” explanation of a scientific happenstance and a brilliant sales pitch to get new hires to work on the project 😂
Amazing progress. Lets hope this is the start to solving some or all of our major energy issues around the world. If it is safe and clean or cleaner its a step in the right direction.
Everything is for profit in America so I doubt it…
Probably decades away still.
@@iamaduckquack It's a very important start.
@@iamaduckquack Every trip requires a first step
This is a huge achievement which proves that nuclear fusion is not just an experiment but can also be an energy source.
Congratulations to all the people involved 👏
False.
@@bartroberts1514 explain
@@futureuse7105 *refuses to elaborate
@@bartroberts1514 nice try troll.
@@deathninja16 I take it you're not overly familiar with Lawrence Livermore's mission (nuclear weapons stockpile research), or how unrelated this announcement is to anything like commercial energy generation.
This is closer to Palpatine's Death Star than a warm light for all humanity.
The experiment from Spiderman 2 became reality.
Creating energy by generating a fusion reaction was the basis for the experiment.
This is really awesome .
So proud to be part of the same species as these people. Such great work brings me to tears to think how bright the future can be. Well done to all involved lots of love from Australia 😁
Yeah, just think of all the ways we will weaponize this.
@@DrGeorgeAntonios
They say anything Announced to the Public was already owned by the Military decades in Advance and may yield possible Commercial Gains in the near Future..
What a weird way to phrase it
how about not patting yourself on the back for being human, eh buddy?
MAN I CAN SEE IT, A FUSCION REACTOR...
just 30 years away...
I remember seeing a video about this about 10-15 years ago. Then I heard that they had given up on it. But nice to see that they didn't. 😊
And you've been living in a hole the last decade and not heard anything about Fusion...ever...since then...?
i like the way he explains
Best explanation I've yet seen of this (and kudos to the Guardian for highlighting it).
I remember reading or hearing somewhere that the true test of knowing something is not being able to use all the long and clever words but actually being able to effortlessly describe it in laymans terms. This guy knows what he's on about
I've almost failed every science class I've taken, but this guy's explanation both made sense and made me excited. This is such an amazing step for humanity and such wonderful news to hear this week!
This is historic! More energy out than the energy input, safely transmuting hydrogen into helium, like transmitting lead into gold. It's literally like the step from not having fire to harnessing fire. It's like the beginning of Star Trek technology.
We did it, now we all know it's possible!
I am expecting some time travellers.😂 And sorry for some poor time travellers who ended up in 2020 accidentally.
"We came to see free energy and we ended up in the virus era. Ivanovic, let's ball... Oh wait... let's go to that Cincinati Zoo first."
@@kalakritistudios about 4 years off but still😂
That's not even true. They required almost 400 times the energy to get it to ignite, then it produced 1.5 times more energy. So the ignition process will need to be massive just to get to where you want.
@@scoopidywhoop7484 They're "Time Travellers", Sir.
@@kalakritistudios gadammit
Just wrote a paper about this topic this summer and it’s crazy they did it
This opens up so many doors for humanity!
A literal pandora's box if you will.
Brilliant presentation. He really enjoyed that too. Every physicist on the planet must be so thrilled.
Absolutely amazing, what a massive improvement, doubling of the power output. Incredible!!!
"Produced more energy than the lasers had deposited" - which is 1/1000 of the energy used to drive the lasers.
Woah amazing. I remember my dad talking to me about nuclear fusion years ago when I was a kid. Didn't think I'd see that day, I'm Glad!
I love when scientists get excited about there field and especially when there's huge new about it.
We will look back at this videos many years from now and say this is where it all started. I'm glad I got to witness it
I graduate tomorrow with a bachelors in physics. the odds
@@someoneelse1534 Was it worth it? What are you going to be working on?