Awesome Tips Nuclear Fusion: Inside the Lab that Made History
In December 2022, scientists at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ignited the first human-caused fusion reaction that generated more energy than it took to create the reaction.
In December 2022, scientists at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ignited the first human-caused fusion reaction that generated more energy than it took to create the reaction.
0:00 Intro
0:42 Breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion
1:35 The Promise of Nuclear Fusion
2:17 The Ignition Facility
3:28 Target Chamber
4:26 The Target
4:53 The Event
5:32 Future of Fusion
National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory:
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Most not given this the credit that it deserve. Sure the lasers consume 400 mega Jules. It also takes outside power to start a gas power plant turbine. Now engineering is the next roadblock. magnetic confinement and NIC laser setup should be put together. I am not a professional in any of these field.
We’ll all be dead by the time these dumb scientists figure out a means of propulsion to travel to another planet
This is such old news
This video overlooks many of the issues facing fusion re:scalability, energy storage and safety and makes it sound like a magic trick
This makes me want to watch the movie The Saint. Truly epic
Could you imagine if they had 193 lasers?
Oh yes! Very much achievable soon actually!
It is admirable that you take the time to go to these facilities and places for these videos, if possible, please do similar videos on some of the startups that are working on fusion as well.
A little misleading. "The lab that made history?" We all know which one that was, in 2019.
It still doesn't last long enough to make it practical put on the electric grid
This guys sounds like a younger steve Buscemi haha
In 200 years it’ll be perfected for all aircraft…and we were here for the start of it all ❤️🔥
Seems like we are ignoring the fact that there are a number of countries who have access to nukes that can destroy everything in less than a day…..and the people who control the nukes are emotional beings/ can develop mental illness which can influence their mood. And global warming which will keep shrinking global food supply, and increase extreme weather events. Happy days
I think it'll happen sooner than expected because we need it to.
So let me get this right…. it takes 400mj to send a laser of 2mj to create a reaction of 3mj and this machine is not intended for the future of energy production??
Never gonna happen. Fission has already left fusion in the dust. Fusion's numbers remain untenable.
We may one day find a way to directly extract the energy from matter. I hope this happens sooner than later. But, it is clear that fusion is not the methodology to do this.
The SUN is a fusion reactor. And it's free. This project is a complete blunder.
Fusion is always a decade away, because it doesn't work. They just stealing investor money.
Look at the huge facilities that require grid power to proceed. Complete nonsense.
For Fusion Energy, the sooner the better 👍
They made a fusion reaction in a lab that lasted only a small fraction of a second. All they did was use lasers instead of bomb to make the reaction. We already have done fusion in bombs with Hydrogen Bombs. Hydrogen bombs release many times more energy than ignition explosion. So in a sense we already have achieved this milestone with weapons decades ago. This is just the first time not having to blow a big hole in the world to do so.
Nuclear fusion as an energy source may not be possible. The heat and pressure needed to produce something capable of producing constant energy for many years is not limited to technology or intelligence, but the very physics that govern the universe.
Ehm, actually that is not correct to say that the achieve more power than they put in… Let me explain, yes the achieve a more powerful power generation, that exceeded the input, but they did not put into calculation the entire system input of energy, that is why technically the did and technically they did not. Most scientist just consider the initial system, not all the other systems that you need to make the reactor work…. I am afraid that we are a long way before we can do that!
I'm pretty sure the climate has been changing even before man used fossil fuels
You got to throw the climate cult verbage into everything
"ignited the first human-caused fusion reaction that generated more energy than it took to create the reaction."
That is wrong. I'm so sick of the media blowing Fusion progress out of all proportion… Listen to what's scientists are telling you and if you feel the need to put some journalistic flare on it, do us all a favour and instead slap yourself in the face…
They got back more energy than the lasers energy… But several orders of magnitude more energy was poured into the system to create that laser… They weren't remotely close to breaking even… And this type of fusion reaction likely never will, it's for nuclear weapons research, not energy…
Does this mean free energy ?
so cool!!
misleading af, the input is 400MJ is the true input, 3MJ is the output.
1:25. CORRECTION: it did not generate more energy than it took to trigger the reaction. It simply generated more energy than was directly input into the cylinder. The energy output was not greater than the total combined energy to trigger the reaction.
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aliens crusiing just chillin, sensors pick up a quick ping of the machine as they said being the hottest thing in the solar system…aleins face 🧐
So, you guys are takeover Doctor octopus project.
Zordon
A true representation of creation being more powerful than destruction.