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4:30 wow, china stole technology, america doesn't! wow

Now I know who google AI podcasts model was inspired on

I don't think startups are going to get to net positive energy before government funded labs.

We've been trying to make a vision/fusion energy plant sins 1945 it is 2025. Literally the LONGEST throughout history that WE have TRY to is perfect anything. We suck at it

We still have 10 company making 10 DIFFERENT KINFDS of FUSION. That tels ME that we STILL KNOW very LITTLE about how to do it

Lol fusion will always be 160 YEARS AWAYS untill it is IS FINALLY HERE.

Q Total, please? Why does this so-called 'industry' keep using deceptively Qp (Q-Plasma) gains as an indicator of energy gains when the total is smaller than the energy used to power the reactor? No one has been able to gain more energy out than the energy expended to operate the reactor. Nobody nor their experiments in all their forms have been able to achieve this, and everyone deceives the public with QP energy gains, Including ITER, which won't be able to either, yet they deceptively speak of a 50 to 500 Mgw ratio. I find this so deceptive: QT < Qp. So stop saying fusion works.

Fusion, The Ponzi Scheme to secure "Life Teniour" !!!!

Nice to hear physics and not fear, paranoia and misinformation. Nice explanation, thanks🙂

Homely woman who sits too close to teleprompter

Very informative!

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Looks more like a washing machine😊❤❤❤❤❤

Fantastic Presentation. Great company to work for! Thank you for this introduction to Zeno.

Fusion bullshit-ists

Great to see this follow up. Consider finding funding for a super deep dive on the waste/proliferation/accident issues, from many angles, as that might be what we really need to get clear enough to make collective intelligent choices going forward...

Only 19 years away now

It can if people really want it. It can be done the same way every other technology was eventually made cheap and ubiquitous. Through standardization, modularity too but mostly standardization.

There is a difference between accidents at nuclear and non nuclear. When a non nuclear plant blows up, it is a short time issue. When nuclear goes bad, the land becomes uninhabitable for thousands of years. So that the issue. Ask all those people who had to evacuate from Pripyat and the other 67k people who had to be relocated. Also how many square miles can't be used for farm land? No we don't need more power so we can have more people. We don't have homes or food for the people we have. That's the issue. Power is the last thing we need. Food and housing first. Once we get that, then we look forward.

This is slanted towards nuclear energy because they are financially vested. That said, oil and coal are not the answers either. But nuclear is certainly not the answer. This is proven by decades of of nuclear waste, of no way of getting rid of it, leaks and toxic dumps on U.S. soil that the Government trys to hide from the public. Some advocates use propaganda to make people believe in "Clean Nuclear Energy" . The French came up with clean nuclear by washing spent rods off in a French river that empties into the ocean..... All they were doing was putting the radiation into the river and into the ocean. Do your own research. The piracy off of Somalia is due to many countries over fishing those waters, then several countries dumping thousands of barrels of nuclear waste into those same waters. Including the U.S.A..... So of course those people did whatever they had to do to feed their families.

Anybody else getting princess bride vibes from the room Packy is in?

You have deliberately chosen to immerse yourselves in techo-optimism in order to dodge depressive thoughts, as have millions of others. You’ve learned to gravitate to echo chamber information bubbles that reinforce what you prefer to believe in. This has become your reality. The process involves avoiding virtually all critical assessments that challenge those beliefs. It involves the omission of past optimistic endeavors that never led to commercially practical products. It relies heavily upon the optimism of youth who lack a lengthy historical perspective of the failed endeavors of the past. It is based on an opportunistic exploitation of most people’s craving for hope, to secure financial rewards. All promoters of nuclear energy are in line with the vast majority of the Earth’s 8.0+ billion humans who have masterfully excluded the following warnings from their consciousness. They continue to assume that we have at least 20 years left to turn this ‘Titanic’ around, through the use of their favorite technology. I urge readers to search for the following two article titles. IPCC report: ‘now or never’ if world is to stave off climate disaster (TheGuardian) UN chief: World has less than 2 years to avoid 'runaway climate change' (TheHill) * This statement was made 5.8 years ago.

How bout noooooooo

Would be nice if it can be made to work

This promotional presentation depended almost exclusively on nuclear fusion energy fans as is the case with most of the funders. The hosts didn't have a deep enough technical background in this field to ask deeply probing 'critical assessment' questions. They frequently used the term Q, one of the descriptive terms for energy gain, and the term 'ignition' which is not at all like the striking of a fire-match head where it consume all the fuel on the match head. The Q value that the physicists are referring to is Q-plasma, which is the energy that is directly delivered to heat the plasma. In the case of the December 5, 2022, laser shot at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) the announced Q value was approximately 1.2. That value excluded the amount of energy that was needed to drive the laser system which was over 100 times greater than what heated the plasma. In the case of all nuclear fusion energy experimental programs the cost effectiveness is still over a million times less than what is needed to create a competitively practical electricity generating power plant. Those who are seeking near term funding tend to be masterful at obscuring this fact. The vast majority of experimental machines do not employ a deuterium/tritium fuel mixture in their experiments and so they don't generate any significant level of fusion reactions. This includes the Wendelstein 7-X machine mentioned in this video. Most people have been told the hydrogen fuel is plentiful. The tritium is both very rare and radioactive. The current commercial price for it is approximately $30,000 per gram. The Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) SPARC machine is intended to be a pulsed tokamak and almost all tokamak-like designs are expected to operate in a pulsed mode when operating at their maximum power levels. SPARC is designed to operate for ten-seconds and then turn off for a recovery period which could be much longer. The Q-plasma value of SPARC only applies to the 'on' period of time so the net energy gain (Q-total) could be substantially less than the gain figure provided to the press once it begins operation using D/T fuel. It is not designed to demonstrate electrical energy production, or tritium fuel production. This video's mention of the Z-Machine and the NIF failed to point out that both machines have always been primarily funded for work related to thermonuclear weapons (H-bomb) research. Over $11-billion in federal revenues have already been sunk into NIF. It was supposed to achieve its goal of a 'breakeven' fusion reaction by 2012 but missed the mark by a factor of over 100. Most of the gains were made in tweaking the target dynamics, as mentioned in this video. It took a decade to do that work. No specifics were given. The target capsule was constructed of a hollow diamond sphere that is nearly perfectly flawless. Hundreds of the spheres are manufactured because only a tiny percent meet the demanding precision specifications. The rest are discarded. It's been estimated that the target assembly, that is largely vaporized by the laser shot, cost around $100,000 USD. The announced experiment generated enough fusion energy to boil two liters of water. It took a week to prepare the experiment and the resulting fusion reaction lasted for approximately 0.000,000,000,08 second. About 96% of the extremely expensive D/T fuel was blasted away from the reaction center before it had a chance to react. The lab has had great difficulties repeating such experiments. Those, promoting using fusion neutrons to irradiate spent nuclear fuel (SNF) from fission power reactors, tend to conveniently exclude some key problems with such schemes. A major issue is that the first that fuel will likely have to undergo extensive and very expensive chemical reprocessing and then a re-fabrication step. The fission product isotopes will likely still need to be removed and then disposed of in a deep geological radioactive waste repository. The host should have asked the contributors, from Proxima Fusion, if they had a working machine yet and if so what the quantity of fusion reactions they have achieve, expressed in terms of Joules. Zap Energy is also engaged in much fusion hype despite the fact that they never have achieved any significant level of fusion reactions. They have never employed D/T fuel and they have experienced difficulties with electrode erosion during their short series of test shots. The above video entrepreneurs have little interest in pointing out difficulties in this promotional video. Helion Energy's Dr. David Kirkley is a master sales pitchman who relies heavily upon descriptions that are loaded with arcane technical terms to impress others. Their latest operating machine is their 6th generation machine called Trenta which has performed around 20,000 experimental shots. Helion has provided no evidence that any of the shots produced any significant amount of fusion reactions, or generated any helium-3, or tritium. They haven't stated that once they achieve fusion reactions how long they expect them to last, in in terms of nano-seconds, before the forces of the reaction blows the rest of the supplied fuel away from the reaction center. They have yet to explain how the un-fused radioactive tritium will be dealt with as it gets sucked into the vacuum system. Some of the fusion reactions will result in a significant amount of energy being deposited in the kinetic energy of fusion neutrons. They haven't mentioned that that energy will be lost due to the neutral charge of the neutrons. Since they expect the future power plant to operate at a continuous rate of ten shots per second it would be useful to know how long the fusion reactions will last since if it is around a nanosecond then then a power plant, that is designed to generate 100 Mega-watts of electrical energy would need to generate fusion pulses in the Giga-watt region. That would be extremely challenging in numerous ways, including the designing the fast switching power electronics needed to handle that. Nuclear fusion energy fans tend to immerse themselves in echo chamber information bubbles that reinforce what they prefer to believe in. Typically those sources exclude key issues such as the ones I've mentioned above. Virtually all nuclear energy promoters, are in line with the vast majority of Earth's other 8.0+ billion humans, who continue to assume that we still have at least 20 years left to turn this 'Titanic' around using their favorite nuclear technology. They have become masterful in excluding the following warnings from their consciousness. I urge readers to search for the following two article titles. IPCC report: ‘now or never’ if world is to stave off climate disaster (TheGuardian) UN chief: World has less than 2 years to avoid 'runaway climate change' (TheHill) * This statement was made 5.8 years ago.

Ask yourself the following. Why is it that tens-of-thousands of people assume that all the remaining barriers will be overcome within the next decade? Why don’t most of the fans understand that the experimental quest began during the 1950s? They tend to never question what key facts are omitted from slick promotional videos, such as that posted by Helion Energy and those doing follow-up reports on their promoting efforts. Helion’s 6th generation machine is Trenta. It has produced about 20,000 shots. The interviewing hosts never ask if it has ever produced a single watt of fusion energy, if it has generated a single milligram of helium-3, or a single milligram of radioactive tritium. They never ask how long, in billionths-of-a-second, the future fusion reactions are expected to last before being snuffed out by the extremely energetic reaction. The future shots are expected to occur about ten times each second but the fusion reaction may last at least a million times less than that time period. If a power plant is designed to generate 100 megawatts on average then each pulse of fusion reactions would need to deliver energy in the range of many giga-watts. Will the electromagnets and switching electronics be capable of handling that at very fast rates? Once the fusion reaction begins it will not proceed until all the available fuel is consumed. The propagation will not be like a match head burning. The use, of the term ‘ignition’ has been deliberately misleading. The nuclear fusion energy experimental history has already consumed over a trillion USD. Billions are now being spent on it each year. It has become a big competitive business in securing more funding. That process has brought about greed and deceptions. All promoters of nuclear energy are in line with the vast majority of the Earth’s 8.0+ billion humans who have masterfully excluded the following warnings from their consciousness. They continue to assume that we have at least 20 years left to turn this ‘Titanic’ around, through the use of their favorite technology. I urge readers to search for the following two article titles. IPCC report: ‘now or never’ if world is to stave off climate disaster (TheGuardian) UN chief: World has less than 2 years to avoid 'runaway climate change' (TheHill) * This statement was made 5.8 years ago.

You people are not that smart. I did fusion with my star device and reported it to the government, and they covered it up and will not do anything about it. Check out Richard Mullers STAR Fusion Reactor on Exotic Propulsion.

No people, the inertial confinement Q is just laser energy over fusion out and does not account for the energy input to produce the lasers such energy is very high for one of the most ineficient energies to produce!!

What does Helion Energy disaster recovery options look like. I sure don't like the following - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_subduction_zone

You need new transmission lines for nuclear than coal

You don't need multiday storage, and there are way better options than batteries: gravity storage and heat storage are a lot better

world's worst wallpaper ever....

thank you, economy will rise by using jet plasma machine and compressed gas(Air) in isolated structure in water pool with more than 80 % efficiency , it transfers compressed gas(hot air) temperature from engine to water, New energy from sea will change world soon, there are other source of energy that with international cooperation in coastline we can reduce effect of global warming, sea is huge source of energy, further more we can prevent these phenomena like cyclone and flood and wildfire by using this hot seasonal atmospheric condition, recent years in summer, geothermal energy happens in surface of coastline, there are many countries in coastline with seasonal hot weather and water condition in comparison with middle Ocean, its more than 12 degrees , in sum-up, by using this energy not only is economical but also reduce global warming in countries like Japan, China, India, Mediterranean countries, Iran, Brazil, Mexico, Us, Canada, (Africa and Arabian countries....) . I invented new method base on air pressure rules and quantum physics ionization sea water minerals in strong dynamic magnet bases on paramagnetic and diamagnetic particles and electrical microwave wave field and electric chemical reactions (K+, Mg++, Na+, H+, H++, li+, H2, ...) +( O2, N2, ...) into up level by vacuum pump from storage into combustion chambers as major part of fuel (more than 50%) for producing electricity and fresh water and fertilizer. this machine produces 150Megwatt-hour/hour and 20000M3/DAY fresh water and fertilizer. 7 methods zero pollution for reducing global warming I mentioned in my profile. (G20 countries can solve these phenomena).

I don’t believe anyone in this video has ever built anything.

Another scam project, there will be nothing to show for the millions wasted on this.

Helion Energy's CEO David Kirkley is a master sales pitchman for the series of projects that many investors have supported because they rely exclusively upon critical assessments created by nuclear fusion energy fans. Those, in this esoteric field, tend to immerse themselves in echo chamber information sources in order to reinforce their preexisting views. Few have any incentives to search for critical assessment of these projects that they have come to love. Kirkley has made progress claims that have later proven wrong. Helion withholds many key details, claiming that they are proprietary information. One detail is quantitive parameters of the number of fusion reactions their multitude of experiments have produced. Most fusion advocates have learned to capitalize on the public fear of global warming to gain public and private support for the technological projects that give them joy. I urge readers to search for the following critical assessment title on TH-cam. The problems with Helion Energy - a response to Real Engineering --- Virtually all nuclear energy promoters, are in line with the vast majority of Earth's other 8.0+ billion humans, who continue to assume that we still have at least 20 years left to turn this 'Titanic' around using their favorite nuclear technology. They have become masterful in excluding the following warnings from their consciousness. I urge readers to search for the following two article titles. IPCC report: ‘now or never’ if world is to stave off climate disaster (TheGuardian) UN chief: World has less than 2 years to avoid 'runaway climate change' (TheHill) * This statement was made 5.6 years ago.

What we have in this channel are people who have chosen to maintain an optimistic outlook no matter how dire the warnings become. They deliberately choose to immerse themselves in echo chamber stories that reinforce what they crave believing in. The world is filled with opportunists and many find joy, and success, in capitalizing upon the increasing cravings for hope for the future.

Helion Energy's CEO David Kirkley is a master sales pitchman for the series of projects that many investors have supported because they rely exclusively upon critical assessments created by nuclear fusion energy fans. Those, in this esoteric field, tend to immerse themselves in echo chamber information sources in order to reinforce their preexisting views. Few have any incentives to search for critical assessment of these projects that they have come to love. Kirkley has made progress claims that have later proven wrong. Helion withholds many key details, claiming that they are proprietary information. One detail is quantitive parameters of the number of fusion reactions their multitude of experiments have produced. Most fusion advocates have learned to capitalize on the public fear of global warming to gain public and private support for the technological projects that give them joy. I urge readers to search for the following critical assessment title on TH-cam. The problems with Helion Energy - a response to Real Engineering --- Virtually all nuclear energy promoters, are in line with the vast majority of Earth's other 8.0+ billion humans, who continue to assume that we still have at least 20 years left to turn this 'Titanic' around using their favorite nuclear technology. They have become masterful in excluding the following warnings from their consciousness. I urge readers to search for the following two article titles. IPCC report: ‘now or never’ if world is to stave off climate disaster (TheGuardian) UN chief: World has less than 2 years to avoid 'runaway climate change' (TheHill) * This statement was made 5.6 years ago.

I remember reading about fusion when I was a kid that is 50 or 60 years ago. It is about time we perfected it and depended less on oil and uranium.

I'm missing Gauss Fusion. Unlike Proxima, Gauss focuses to go directly to a stellarator-based power plant. No more experiments, use all the gathered knowledge and try a best shot.

Forget more fission - it's too expensive and dangerous for the average consumer. Emphasis should be on renewables with fusion as a future option, hopefully.

There Earth is already supplied with all its energy needs by an extremely powerful nuclear fusion source - the Sun, which has been up and running for aeons.

Helion Energy is a criminal swindle! Fusion energy is a lie based on Einstein's Relativity fantasy! The stars do NOT run on fusion and these fusion reactors are threat to all life in their vicinity. The promise of fusion will never come true but the swindle goes on and on ...

What is 50 MW? Is it consumes or generates , electricity or heat?

Julia's top looks like a CRT image with a noisy horizontal drive.

Fission, here, now, safe, abundant, no new physics needed, and CHEAP!

ITER = FSC = Falacy of sunk costs

The real reason for excitement now is that serious work, likely to work, is being done to remedy the plasma instability problems that have plagued Tokamaks up until now.

Okay not again, Fusion is a 67-year-old scam!..... Most Americans know and realize this so take it somewhere else.

Love the series, thank you! I'm a high-schooler who's interested in the field, and it's great to see more people coming to their senses and realizing nuclear is the way to go.