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Whilst I agree with the other commentators here that any progress on fusion is exciting, let alone what we see, are we just swapping one geopolitical dependency for another. Do we need exotic materials to assemble one of these plants? Where do we get them?

None is saying how they scale it up for economic power delivery even if fusion is achieved , 100s tons super cooled magnets with stupid cool down and warm up times with any detected problem . Is it not the stupidest way to boil water imaginable unless your an engineer wanting a job for life ?

Thank you so much!

I would be really interested to hear about the superconductor magnet use in Tokamak Energy's project. It sounds like they have come close to holding the reaction in a tokamak.

story 3: they rely on fossil fuels??? - Man, you are neglecting the impact of grid scale battery backup! it s having a PROFOUND impact on the utility of renewables and that impacts the rate at which renewable facilities are being built, and these grid scale battery backup systems are being bought by power companies just as fast as they can be made, with some companies having a 2 year backlog of orders. This is allowing renewables to be used as base load power, and some renewable facilities are now competing against peaker plants for spot power generation, AND WINNING!!! so...people are ALREADY turning away from fossil fuels.

very strange.. why are you not mentioning the Chinese fusion development new today.. there has been some kind of a break through.. its news is all over the world of the global majority.. dude.. they are way ahead.. western propaganda is setting everybody backward..

Love these updates. Thanks for doing what you do.

It's good news, that Commonwealth Fusion is building its first power plant in VA. This seems VERY optimistic since the SPARC facility isn't yet functional. I'd like to know more about how they've grown so confident. Now, isn't the location's nearness to those AI datacenters also helpful if they're going to use AI to run the facility? Or can they run the AI on local hardware in the plant?

Yup, just like the free beer tomorrow jokes, controlled fusion energy is just a few years away. I’m not holding my breath. I’m quite happy with our current fusion reactor being the sun. Hell, we can directly harness its photons to create electricity. No need to mess around with boiling water to run a turbine. Talk about a giant gulf between theory, the lab and industrial scale energy production. ITER just announced another delay in their plans for sustained fusion capability. Sheesh.

Really great Fusion Industry News update Dr. Cyd!! I share your enthusiasm for the current stage of Fusion power development. It's so great that sites for actual Fusion powerplants are selected and actual down to earth things like Fusion grade steels are being more efficiently made to produce the Fusion powerplants we will soon be building!! Excellent!! Thanks for this great update Dr. Cyd! Exciting Times!!

Some bad cuts in there... Seams amateurish. You guys need to do better on your editing to not cut the speaker off mid word.

Fusion is still two generations away. At best. We can achieve it in thermonuclear weapons because of the massive influx of energy provided by fission. But that environment is not achievable on an industrial scale.

Love the idea of fusion, it will be transformative. However, at 70 y.o., I’m doubtful I’ll live to see commercially scaled fusion. It’s always 30 years away, and I’m unlikely to survive that long, so hurry up!

Thanks again!

I love these 60 second updates. Honestly, this is all the information that I think I want to consume at this point of fusion development.

Keep up the good work, guys! Well done Cyd! How does RAFM bear up better than normal steel?

I'm excited about the CFS plant, but how sure are they it's going to work? I see everyone else is still testing their own ideas; is CFS really that far ahead of the game that they're ready to build a plant that will deliver electricity to the grid? What's their secret sauce?

But Bro why you no cover the Chinese 1000 second fusion breakthrough? english.news.cn/20250120/1d4e392ccaef48f29e8e9cdd0f9360c5/c.html

Exciting news, I feel like as the months go by we're hearing more and more promising things around Fusion, I hope it means the meme of it being "only 20 years away" will disappear soon.

Interesting news

Woefully undersubscribed.

Love your presentation Dy Cyd! Sometime, you have to share that joke you're grinning about the whole presentation 🙂

Near the beginning of the above presentation was mention of the ‘break-even’ fusion experiment announcement from the National Ignition Facility’s (NIF) December 5, 2022, laser shot. Omitted was the following facts. That break-even goal was supposed to have taken place by 2012. The experiment took about a week to set up but the fusion reaction lasted for only 0.000,000,000,08 second. The force of the reaction, at the center hotspot, then blew away 96% of the expensive supplied fuel before it had an opportunity to fuse. That was then sucked into the target chamber vacuum pumping system. The quoted input energy, that heated and compressed the plasma, was less than 1% the energy required to pump the lasers. NIF has always been primarily funded as a thermonuclear weapon (H-bomb) research tool, not as a viable path to a future fusion energy power plant. Over $11 billion USD in federal revenues has already been sunk into that project that created enough fusion energy that could have boiled a few liters of water. Those, behind the FIA, could benefit from a course in critical thinking skills.

Fusion energy fans have learned to capitalize upon the fear of global warming to promote their love affair with this technology. The FIA is a promotional organization that has learned to financially benefit from the interest that they create. Their sales pitches focus on advances that have been made while not covering such things such as the ITER grossly exceeding its original budget and now being well over a decade behind its original schedule. The FIA is composed of people who fell for the claims that the hydrogen fusion fuel is almost limitless. Their love affair prevented them from searching for the current commercial price of the radioactive tritium component of the fuel. It happens to be greater than $30,000 per gram. Of course, when confronted with that fact, they have numerous solutions to that problem, such as once the fusion technology is proven to be practical the fusion reactors will breed just enough tritium to fuel themselves. Search for the following article in the scientific journal Science. OUT OF GAS 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 6.3 years ago.

If the presentation starts about money. The rest must not be important.

Tokamak generates Whistler waves at a certain frequency. This is also found in atmospheric sprite production when Antihydrogen plasma flows through the electromagnetic field lines of the ionosphere. The signature is helium production. While the electromagnetic field is available the separation of matter and antimatter is possible. The reason why there’s no annihilation is the rematching of those two properties. Antihydrogen fusion is reproducible and will outperform all fusion.

"Let me know in the comments" Just use compressed air to drive the machine. Air circulating at hypersonic speeds cam seriously decrease the pressure at the center of a cone.

total fantasy

Please ask someone at Thales how to pronounce their company name!

Aside from growing bank accounts and egos, realistically how is this tech any good for God given life and bio rhythms on earth?

The South Korean magnetic fusion device KSTAR is valued at over $1.2 trillion. Why isn't it mentioned anywhere in any of the Fusion Industry Association podcasts or reports?

Amazing progress for fusion this year! The world is truly waking up to the promise of fusion energy, which is no longer a "forever away"- thing but is becoming tangible in the very near future. Helion is leading the charge right now but many others are right behind. Not everyone will make it, but if only one of the teams succeeds, the world will change dramatically! Btw, always love to see people with an "alternative" style in science (like Dr Kesler). I think it makes the field feel more accessible to the general public.

What about Helion? th-cam.com/video/_bDXXWQxK38/w-d-xo.html

Happy New Year!

8.92k subscribers - 274 views - 56 thumbs up. Are these good numbers? It doesn't seem so. The material will change the world. Why is it so invisible? Keep up the good work, though!

Great presenters. Happy New Year!

The FIA exists to promote fusion energy and it’s clearly rather successful but this presentation reported nothing new. Where are for example the reports on DT experiments, methods of enriching lithium, high energy neutron irradiation experiments and tritium breeding experiments - all absolutely essential before any fusion reactor can be built. The only result mentioned was the irrelevant NIF ‘more energy out than in’ work - irrelevant since it ignores the massive energy used to put the energy into the target.

Before the end of the 2030s we will need geoengineering to stop a climate catastrophe, that's too late to use it to do direct carbon capture which would take massive amounts of energy.

Long before fusion gets onto the grid, a fusion machine that drives a HEAT EXCHANGER will need to demonstrate it can operate for months at a time with reasonably low maintenance. I am very suspicious, because no one has talked about this. Only a sustained heat-exchanger demonstration will prove the thermodynamic gain, reliability, and running costs.

Excellent summary, thanks for an eventful 2024. Lets have a brilliant 2025!

The phenomenon of nuclear fusion does not have any reasonable theory; the mechanism of fusion is unknown to now. The present theories of quantum mechanics, quantum chromodynamics, electroweak theory and nuclear forces are unable to explain reactions of nuclear fusion. Until there is a clear theory of this phenomenon, there will be no reliable experiment focused on an industrial result, that is, a continuous nuclear fusion reaction of light elements. So, where is the theory? Are leading journals capable of publishing such a theory, as it would certainly bring a significant revision to the existing theories listed above?..

Our reactor uses ion pressure instead of heat and we use an electromagnetic piston to compress the ions that are made by passing a small current through the neutral gas. we are looking for funding. The three prototypes cost us about £500 each. lit a 3 watt m.e.s lamp.

thanks for the udates

nice

Thanks for the update! much love :)

When we transition to fussion energy and start generating enough to do some serious terofforming. Is all the excess energy being created expected to cause any global heating problems?

Fusion will never work and it is a total scam and a swindle that will always be just around the corner and anyone who believes the propaganda is a sucker and a fool!

Fusion... yes... when I was recent engineering grad, like yourself, there was equally optimistic news on fusion. Since then (40 years) we have managed to harness energy from the only, 'local', working, fusion reactor. And now we're creating a terawatt+ of power every day - pollution-free. Over the years it has become abundantly obvious that even if net power-positive fusion is ever created, the power will be far from pollution-free. In fact things are going to get radioactive pretty quickly and we'll be back to the fission nightmare were the instant a power plant is started, that is the last time that piece of land will be used for farming, housing or indeed anything other than a pit in to which vast quantities of money are poured for a hundred plus years (see Sellafield). To power our civilization on this planet, we only have to look to the sun, the wind and the inexhaustible supply of heat beneath our feet to supply every kWh of energy we will ever need.

OK you’re using panels anyway which means segmented and you can have sensors watching the plasma in each area. It looks like the wave of energy travels around the reactor, and you can use a feedback loop to control the magnetic containment field. The feedback from panel one is fed into panel two so as the energy wave arrives, it can use the magnetic field to choke the energy.