Fusion News, February 5th, 2025
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- Jeff Peachman, PhD student at the University of Washington, gives today's Fusion News update, summarizing the recent major headlines on fusion energy. Links to all of the stories mentioned are included below.
1. Helion raises $425M to help build a fusion reactor for Microsoft
techcrunch.com...
2. Deploying Advanced Energy Tech Faster
www.weforum.or...
3. UKAEA to invest £200m to advance fusion fuel development
www.neimagazin...
4. SMART: One step closer to nuclear fusion with its first plasma
phys.org/news/...
Bonus:
Exclusive: Images show China building huge fusion research facility, analysts say
www.reuters.co...
Private companies aim to demonstrate working fusion reactors in 2025
www.science.or...
always remember there are people waiting for these updates no matter the no. of views
Thank you so much for these updates, much appreciated.
Jeff, extremely well articulated articles. You have a natural talent for communication. I’m often bamboozled by complex jargon in these updates, but somehow in your delivery I understood eve. Well done, keep it up and I look forward to your next show!
Thank you for the updates. Current Fusion news is so hard to find, this is a great way to find out everything!!
That's because there's nothing, and never will be anything.
Thanks for the Fusion News! As someone outside the industry, I love the updates.
Good to hear what people are up to, thank you!
Subscribed! I literally watch every video you post.
Thanks you and all the other host for the updates. I'm praying for your success.
I'd appreciate an update on the research & experiments being done by Lawrenceville Plasma.
Science will and always remain non-controversial. Science is always based on standing on the shoulders (discoveries) of those who came before them. Listen to his initial statement then observe what he says. Mundane bickering is not what this is about. I looked forward over the years to listen to this cutting-edge news intently. Don't ever go to a PHD conference where they who argue about a finding. You better know your facts. Love you the news, keep up the good work
I thourght science was controversial in the past, when it claimed earth was not the center and orbited the sun, it became non-controversial recently but I don't consider this a good thing.
@@arkatub Yeah, I agree. Ever since the age of enlightenment and Newtonian physics, science has look upon to solved problems. Now it has become politicized. The Chinese have not given up and are moving forward.
Good Audio!
We do fusion not because it is easy, but because it is hard.
General Fusion in Canada already uses DTF in their Magnetic Tunnel Fusion MTF reactor.
As a physicist that worked among Nobel Laureates from around the world at a high energy nuclear physics lab (Fermilab), the lesson learned was that superior physics often wins out over settling for just simply good physics that need overly compensated by engineering. Tokamaks are good physics but require an endless amount of engineering iterations which likely will not achieve the goal of producing the "Wall Plug Efficiency" Figure of Merit for a fusion power plant.
The key to practical fusion is recognizing that density and confinement should drive temperature, not the other way around. Magnetic confinement, as used in tokamaks, fights against this principle and has not produced anything close to a path.
Look for Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion or even Muon Catalytic Fusion (room temperature advantages). They start from very sound physics which makes the engineering possibilities more plentiful. Not saying they are easy . . . but it probably would not take 70 years+ like it has for Tokamaks.
Still 20 years away and always will be.
Good Morning! 🇺🇲☕️
Thanks, Jeff. Your video caption still says, “PhD student at the University of Wisconsin,” not Washington.
I cannot believe the UKAEA is going to waste millions on a tritium breeder testbed when they can just simulate it for free using OpenFOAM. I thought the government labs designed their simulation software so we wouldn't have to run expensive real-world experiments. What am I missing?
I meant OpenFOAM **combined with OpenMC**. OpenFOAM is a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code. FOAM = Field Operation And Manipulation. OpenMC is a Monte Carlo neutron and photon transport code. Both codes are verified to be accurate, cutting-edge, open source, and fast. :-)
@@michaeldeeth811 They want to obtain H-3 atoms, not simulations
@@alanfolmsbee4916 Thanks, Alan. I don't understand why you think the LIBRTI experiment is designed to "obtain H-3 atoms" rather than to determine a blanket's tritium-recovery efficiency. According to the article, they plan to purchase a neutron source that can produce 50 trillion neutrons per second. That sounds impressive, but a commercial fusion plant would consume over a million times that many tritons per second. Also, the testbed requires 14 MeV neutrons, implying they come from D-T fusion. Overall, this system would be consuming H-3 atoms, not supplying them.
That is super bold for Microsoft to be online in 2028. I hope so. Is their process patentable?
Time for a lapel mic. People who are serious about putting out content have great audio.
I just love these science fiction shows.
In the news that China reaches 1066 seconds of stable plasma
Is there any information about this
Fusion,
All starts and ends with our active neurons.
Our active neurons live and die @-10nce, from 0 to T.E.N. - 010 dimensions.
The Bad thing about private funding of research (any kind of) is the fact that. As with any other invention big or small, the funders will want to get ROI for it. Which means that while the initial target for fusion energy production is ten times the energy needed to run the fusion reactor. The target of ROI for private investors will be ten times that, that means that they will seek for 100 times ROI.
And this therefore, means that once again they will finally convince the rest of the world that we should be happy about the ecological results of fusion alone, but we should continue to pay for energy not as commodity but as a product and ... An expensive one!
Don't get me wrong, I'm excited about the advancement of science and technology, but I'm not enthusiastic about the ethics and the minds of private investors who are NOT following the same path of progress.
So, Let's just hope that fusion energy will follow the path of AI ...
We will KNOW FUSION IS FOR REAL when we get a message from our power companies saying the RATES ARE DROPPING. Until then, keep dreaming.
Why be so modest about fusion, it is the cheapest form of energy available. However trying to build your own Sun down here on Earth, that's just crazy, even if you manage it the cost must be astronomical.
my comment was censored
why? what did you say?
This sounds dishonest.
I’m the presenter and I’m sorry that you feel that way. Is it the content or the delivery that made you feel that way? I admit that I’m a beginner at science communication. Talking to a camera is a new skill that I am working on.