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?
@RockAristote 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
@cristianmicu Says:
why the energy release happens when the particles fuse together , that was not explained, it was just STATED
@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
@AreteAesthetic Says:
I plan on getting a B.S. in materials engineering with a minor in chemistry and if need be a graduate degree related to the field of nuclear fusion. I want to help change the world!
@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?
@uberholmes Says:
I have learned so much about nuclear fusion. Thank you!
@josejoao1621 Says:
I think they are being a little naive. If you can get AI systems to teach students in such a huge scale, why would you need students to begin with? Yes you may teach a lot of people cool stuff, but they all will end up in unemployment. AI learns faster than humans, and is increasingly smarter. Why would you need humans? They will only matter for caring for other humans, creative endeavours or media. But that’s not what many people want or are good at… So, I am not envisioning such an utopia with the ascension of AI, but who really knows, I may be wrong…
@nicholasmeriwether6589 Says:
YouTube is the single greatest educational tool in human history.
@alansouthwell2899 Says:
Question. If we cracked nuclear fusion tomorrow, what would that do to global economies.
@Zomfoo Says:
The perpetually 20 years away power source.
Now interview an advocate for Thorium power.
@douggolde7582 Says:
Atomic level printing with infinite energy equals cornucopia machine.
@behonestwithyourself3718 Says:
Fascinating, it's amazing what humans have figured out.
@TwitchyMofo Says:
I've just started watching so I hope this gets addressed later in the interview, but that experiment that produced more energy than was put in did not account for the laser power that causes the reaction. There is also no way to harvest the energy from the architecture they used. It was purely research being done at a weapons research facility. It did nothing to further our advancement towards fusion power.
@ST-iv2ej Says:
I've got a long drive home from London tomorrow, this is the entertainment sorted.
@mikmacarthur Says:
I may be wrong here but wasn't the Tzsar bomba that they discovered tritium deuteride? they fairly shat themselves when it gave twice the yield after they decided to reduce the payload by 2 thirds lol 50 mt i think it gave off
@mikmacarthur Says:
Sustainable Fusion isn't possible for more than a second except for the hydrogen bomb.
and before someone says what about the sun? The sun isn't a nuclear fusion reactor so right off the bat this dude is absolutely wrong, truth is that its only a theory, nobody knows how the stars really work.
The sun is a convertor it takes electricity from the aether and converts it to super heated plasma on the surface, this fool banging on about what's inside the sun is total bullshit because nobody has been there, its all pure theory, wrong theory, sun spots are black because the surface of the sun is black, you only see the plasma. everything this guy thinks he knows about the sun is just an old repeating of an outdated theory. pleas feel free to prove me wrong.
@NoahZeus Says:
One of the top interviews so far easy.
@AnelorGalor Says:
Mr Whyte bypassed the thorium part and aspect. these would not have byproducts for nukes nor long time storage needs. the material be also very abundant compared to uranium.
@dan2304 Says:
The big problem that is not explained. For fusion to be a power supply on Earth, the total energy invested, the whole infrastructure, all the energy inputs to run the infrastructure, must be less than about 10% of the energy supplied to the grid. At 10%, it is barely break even. Total energy input needs to be less than 5% of the energy exported for the industry to be profitable. Fusion is a long way from even breaking even with energy i put to out put. The hype over recent energy positive fusion, the energy of the laser was less than the energy of the fusion but the laser itself requires about 800 times the energy of the laser. Additionally to extract the energy from fusion, turbines are only maximum 40% efficient.
@jeremymcarthur1930 Says:
Really curious as to what he thinks about Helion.
@danstiurca7963 Says:
My man from MIT neglected to mention that the fusion blanket is radioactive like hell.
It's not all rainbows and unicorns.
Oh, and the actual practical containment times right now actually are only a few seconds... not exactly a power plant.
@SuperBlinding Says:
Thanks for, The Positivity.
@noahkusaba2451 Says:
The only question that really matter "Where are we at with Fusion," was complete incomprehensible drivel.
@TheMiguelASP Says:
After this conversation Peterson will say: "Well, you know, I'm also a nuclear physicist."
@charleediaven6278 Says:
Absurdities abound in this chud's posts.
@LuggageStardate Says:
Whenever you hear people promising you "free energy", more energy out than you put in you just just believe it and and ignore laws like conservation of energy. Fusion and Fission are the same equation. Combine atoms into heavier elements = requires energy, split atoms into lighter elements = release energy. People say "but the sun", the sun gets less than half its energy from fusion of hydrogen and contains 98% of all the matter in our solar system and is powered by the heat from intense gravity from it.
@comment8767 Says:
Breakeven on energy is of no particular value. Commercial fusion will require something like 20x.
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