I wonder what’s going on with the fusion stuff 🤔 if they are trying to build a reactor now or how far off that might be. Super interesting!
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I found this talk super informative on what’s the path forward https://youtu.be/L0KuAx1COEk
Yes #[3]! Super informative.
Will listen too!
My mom worked at the IPP which built the mentioned Wendelstein 7X - a stellerator - but she was not into physics. In this video he doesn't explain well how tokamaks are different from stellerators. To my understanding, stellerators are tokamaks with twisted coils and as coils in a stellerator are so twisted, you can't easily swap them if something breaks while in the much more symmetric tokamaks, you can have them manufactured in for example 45° segments and keep a stock of one segment for fast replacement.
Who can correct me here?
This will likely change everything! Next age, after industrialization! I wonder if I’ll live long enough to see it! 🐶🐾🤔
There’s a lot of talk about reversing aging too. Not sure how realistic or where we stand on that truly, lots to listen / read up on.
I doubt I would want to! Think of the impact on new generation, with all the young old farts in control! Death is the only reason we evolved as species! As much as I want to see more, I’d rather let new generations have their chance! 🐶🐾🫡🫂
Isn’t it always 30 years away? 😄 Long way off I reckon to scale it up and actually harness the heat energy. Often not mentioned is the 300 megajoules that was needed to ready the lasers before firing them (this is not included in the 1 in —> 1.5 out energy equation). Fascinating stuff though and massive potential.
Could the excess energy compensate for the initial laser warmup? I don’t know what the end product would look like but perhaps that extra energy can offset the initial process 🤷♂️ talking outa my butt here. I have a lot to catch up on.
Who knows 🤷🏻♂️ Certainly exciting. It’s always tricky to find detailed info on this cutting edge stuff unless you’re working on it directly or know people who are.
As long as input energy required doesn’t scale in a 1:1 relationship to the output, shouldn’t matter what that input is - I think.
Yep, have to “maintain the gain” otherwise it’s all futile. Lots of obstacles ahead to overcome. Biggest ones are how do they sustain the energy long enough to get or harness that excess energy and remove it from the system so it can actually be used? And the cost to run it all ultimately has to be priced competitively in order to make it a viable competitor to other energy sources.
They build them back in germany in the 30's it's all a lie
Far away still, sorry. They only managed to prove a hypothesis, frankly.
It's science fiction
Fission is the way to go for the foreseeable future
It has always been 30 years away until they became energy positive, now it’s realistically 20 - 30 years away