Just watch. The left will now be pro fossile fuel. Despite being all about renewable energy and anything "green"
@mariojorge9529 Says:
Thanks!
@ObserverChat Says:
Dennis is the ONE. i just love this guy. best teacher and communicator ever. i can listen and learn from him without ever getting tired. ❤
@nealanthony3482 Says:
Two very smart and charismatic Canadians. You could almost guess these guys are Canadian because in spite of all their accomplishments, there was zero ego or hubris on display.
@nealanthony3482 Says:
This was fascinating. This gentleman is extremely impressive. He makes this topic quite understandable. Just like Einstein said, if you can't explain it to a 10 year old, you don't understand it yourself. Society should value people like this guy and his colleagues far more and value politicians and celebrities far less.
@billthomas8994 Says:
Superb job by host with relevant questions and guest in explaning the fusion process in layman’s terms
@tricycleaccident Says:
I'm a chemical engineering PhD student with a couple statistical mechanics courses under my belt. The questions Dr. Peterson asked made me laugh because they were SO GOOD for someone outside the field of chemistry and particle physics! His question about vibration was stunning because it is indeed one of the "modes" over which a molecule's energy can be distributed, and it certainly affects reaction rates in typical states of matter. I don't pretend to be an expert in stat mech, but I never expected to learn more about it from a JP video. Despite following him for a couple years he still manages to surprise me!!
Though you will probably never see this, Dr. Peterson, thank you for being such a great educator and recognizing that the world badly needs you. Though I can't judge you, you really seem to be cooperating with the grace of God.
@mybodymyplanet Says:
I love the way their
Minds work. Omg
@meinking22 Says:
Great guest! Thanks to nuclear fission and fusion power we have abundant and totally sustainable energy at our fingertips. The only thing stopping this from becoming a beneficial reality for everyone in the world are those currently in power who control the other energy resources and don't want to give up that control.
@MichaelSkinner-e9j Says:
I know it sounds crazy, but the key to sustainable fusion is in space inside O Neil Cylinders.
The main preface for that is you can use HUGE Flywheels as large as the Cylinder itself that are as as efficient as any solid state Capacitor, and you can use their size and speed to provide the necessary energy to keep that much energy coming into the system to sustain it.
To have fusion go for that long and be sustainable, it’s almost like your fusion plant has to be the size of a coffee cup, and you have to have Niagara Falls behind it (your Solar Cells and multiple flywheels that are as big as a torus station themselves)
Once you have that much energy behind it , you can have laser fusion, with either a sphere or cylinder itself that rotates to have about 30 or 50,000 feet of water to get heated.
- that will essentially act as a Dyson sphere, but Significantly Smaller with Solar cells and hot water at the surface (either in pipes or geysers- one or the other)
With that Dyson sphere or cylinder rotating, you can have the water and air stick to the walls and convection can work as normal.
- with laser fusion in that way, you can have plasma, then you can have superheated air, then superheated water, and then you can go outward because you have that much space.
It’s all about scale, and you need a cylinder That big in order to do it.
My Name is Michael Skinner, and it’s the only way you can have sustainable fusion that’s efficient enough
- Do what you want to do on the big scale, just smaller scale.
@alessatrx Says:
Correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't it be easier and more efficient to build tools that would harvest infinite energy that is around us than create it from scratch (there are already people who have found ways to do just that or better said there were)
@danieltroncoso9998 Says:
Dr. Peterson, DTRON here again. You should have Terrance Howard on so he can show you his work. Joe Rogan had him on and it was astounding.
@danieltroncoso9998 Says:
Dr. Peterson, DTRON here. It would be great to have a diagram DURING the explanation of the technical aspects.
@Ryan_Smyth Says:
Plasma cosmology. Electric Universe.
@duotronic6451 Says:
1970s promised fusion in 30 years. 50 years later, "we need another 30 years federal funding." 😢😢😢
@EdR77203 Says:
Where do you get the tritium? Tritium does not occur in nature,
@three6nine992 Says:
I actually have 2 methods to produce helium-3, on is call HDECH3.... WHEN/if I am able to fund the build myself, the opportunity to buy these processes will have passed.
@three6nine992 Says:
Fusion needs Helium-3, I can provide a process to obtain it... no need for the moon and is not a byproduct of fission..
@missano3856 Says:
Fusion is the energy source of the future and always will be.
@theGraphicAutist Says:
i love how this guy explains the sun as a nuclear furnace that does bla bla bla, and of course fails to mention that oh...btw... this, like dark matter and dark energy, is not fact... just theory, it hasn't been proven scientifically. So the next time anyone is arguing about lost civilizations, and the great technologies they must've had to produce perfect vases, faces, sarcophagi etc. and ur "opponent" busts out hypocritis of spades and says, "Ya everything must endure scientific scrutiny and rigor in order to be taken seriously" And then throw in something dumb like how long the heliocentric model took for science to come around, it is imperative you smack them, yell "hypocrisy!," and ask them what is the proof that sun is nuclear furnace, is it even possible to prove DM or DE? itll soon be possible to disprove them
@joseph-mariopelerin7028 Says:
All we need to know is the fact its way to expensive... I know we need jobs for all the university students, they really should study something else...
@hornyj1 Says:
Pursue fusion energy - for sure! Rely on it in short to moderate horizon (+-50 years) - forget it!
Currently it's a nightmare to get usable energy from it. We are far from net positive energy - the energy put to the reaction by lasers has been overpassed by energy produced by the energy - true, but the lasers are notorious to be not very efficient! The real energy drawn from grid/powerplants was 5-6 times larger than what the lasers delivered to the reaction => we still have to increase the yield 10 times to get actually some energy from the fusion reactor.
When we solve this there will be the longevity issue. All the materials, especially parts that are involved in gathering the energy from the fusion reaction are degrading so fast it lasts seconds. How to improve on this will be the next big problem to crack before a commercial use will be feasible.
@Brohymn80 Says:
Without fusionings of higher neutron-containing atoms & isotopes, it's a moot technological draw down of funding.
Boron via forms of B-10 & B-11 isotopes or bust. Anything else lacks the free neutron count from a metallurgical perspective capable of containment in a reactor.
Farther above and fission is a better topic of focus. The rest is in-between or a waste of time & intentional diversion of resources for purposes of tying them up for disinformation purposes.
@YourlocalMcDonaldworker Says:
Very impressive but just don’t blow up the earth
@BOBBOBBOBBOBBOBBOB69 Says:
Quantum tunneling allows for spontaneous fusion at room temperature, that being said the chance is very very very fucking small.
@BOBBOBBOBBOBBOBBOB69 Says:
Dyson Swarms seem like a fantastic way to get energy, even a fraction of 1% of the suns solar output would be enough for anything we could feasibly need.
@BeTeK11 Says:
Thing about fusion. We have enough uranium to power world with cheap energy if we wanted. Amount of nuclear waste is quite small all things considered. Sure fusion would be ideal but fission would suffice
@garyplewa9277 Says:
I have been listening to the promise of Fusion power my entire life (I am now 70 years old) and each time its is talked up as just 30 years away. I no longer believe any of the promises. First of all, most of the experiments involve Tritium because it requires less energy to fuse. But Tritium is not naturally occuring and definately is not the "limitless supply" that is often touted when discussing the advantages of fusion. Also, it is one thing to create a positive gain in a laboratory experiment, which often neglects to mention the TOTAL energy consumed from the grid and just talks about the energy input the experiment itself, then it is to create an economical, commercial fusion power plant. Frankly I believe fusion will simply provide a good living for the scientists and equipment manufacturers running these experiments but will never become reality.
@dherman0001 Says:
We would all have been in electric cars by now, all oil pumping stopped, all coal mining stopped, if leftists hadn't fought against nuclear power.
@timkern462 Says:
I learned a lot from this. Thanks to both of you gentlemen.
@steveanimatrix3887 Says:
Hard to express this without sounding negative, because this is absolutely amazing on every level. I was just hoping there was a new way to actually generate/harness electricity with this tech without using the same 'ol steam based turbine.
@Muonium1 Says:
I may not agree with all of Mr. Peterson's philosophical convictions, but as someone who's been on the 'inside' of the laser driven inertial confinement fusion world for a couple decades now, I was HIGHLY impressed with the intellectual level of this conversation. I expected some talk about deuterium and superconductors and so forth, but I did not expect to hear discussion about the triple product or the Larmor radii of the confined charged particles in the plasma vessel. Notably, Peterson's questions are unusually incisive and canny for a non-expert in the field; his considerable intelligence is quite clear here and he should not be underestimated by interviewers or interviewees alike.
@fatalheart7382 Says:
I like the twist at the end where he has no answers for the foreseeable future on when this thing is going to come into being, but says, "It's not a matter of when, but at what price point it becomes viable.", as though they even have a working model of the technology to sell in the first place that wouldn't be laughed off the stage of Shark Tank. I'll see you in another 20 years and billions of dollars in investments where major scale technological advances come from any other place than fusion funding making it minutely more viable and another physicist is sitting in that chair all excited telling you its just on the horizon, with no real answer as to why the U.S., if it is still around, isn't utilizing nuclear fission. ;) It's a great technology and shouldn't be slept on. But it is unforgiveable that we have not yet implemented fission. however, that's the human condition; they need a savior and there is only one Jesus Christ. God is not obligated to love humanity, neither explicitly or in any sort of measure. If they want to linger in their own filth, He doesn't have to stop them.
@gordonicus4637 Says:
It's not clear from the discussion, just how the temperature of a hundred million degrees is achieved?
@williamhensley8698 Says:
Fission is going to be the bridge to fusion.
@jameslincs Says:
Could fusion energy be the answer to the fermi paradox by destroying the atmosphere in a surprising way?
@Balthazard_00 Says:
Just 10 more years…
@jtlon1 Says:
Fusion power generation is 100% snake oil. You get a indication by the fact they lie persistently about the data
@Lightzy1 Says:
Make a battery the human body can draw energy from.
@kc9937 Says:
Obligatory cynic here, cheap energy isn't the goal of the powers that be. Poor people are easier to manipulate and control.
@Iagle888 Says:
Sounds like a dud, too much energy required for output all this buzz for funding.
@Joca497 Says:
Sorry guys, Fusion is a load of cobblers. There are technologies available, here, today, that can be retrofitted to existing combustion engines to make them zero carbon monoxide and dioxide. Fusion = 40 plus years of ridiculous sums of money and the best minds. Had all that effort been put into solar panels we'd already have solar panels efficient enough for everyone to have free clean energy. The point of fusion is not that. The point of fusion is to keep you tied to energy companies FOREVER. Sorry. Full of SH&^T
@t3tsuyaguy1 Says:
I'd like to understand more about the claim that we have an endless supply of hydrogen. As I understand it, we mostly get hydrogen via the electrolysis of water. We _don't_ have an endless supply of water. It's unimaginably massive, but it most certainly is not endless. There is a finite number of hydrogen and oxygen atoms on the planet. If we start fusing hydrogen into helium, then those atoms are removed from the available hydrogen on the planet. That means those discrete bits of energy will never again join with oxygen to form water again. It seems to me that this technology running all over the planet would cause a slow by steady and permanent decrease in the total water on Earth. Can someone explain what I'm missing? I'm certain I'm missing several things. I just don't know what they are, and it makes this technology actually a little worrisome to me.
@greeneyebandit7949 Says:
Physicist not had a gamer chair
@TCBYEAHCUZ Says:
When are you going to have an interview with Elon? I remember you asked him and he said yes.
@Widesight Says:
This is one of those videos that I will need to watch several times. First time to ready my brain and then repeat viewings to try and properly understand everything and the impacts. Ace.
@FrancescoDiMauro Says:
Imagine a world where you see Dr. Whyte's face on the front page of newspapers instead of Greta Thunberg's... Thank God there's people like him out there busting their asses off trying to actually solve problems with virtually zero recognition. ❤
@FrankDrebinJunior Says:
A sketchboard would definetely help for physical conceptualizations :) Great discussion.
@meansq Says:
Deuterium is the fuel and it is everywhere on earth?
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