The structure of the ITER central solenoid-the large, 1,000-tonne electromagnet in the centre of the machine is heavy, give me a shout-out and i will help you lift it.
@@LabRat10101 Awesome! Thanks! 🙏 I'll hit you up as soon as I get the kit from wish. Might be a tight fit around the staircase but we'll cross that bridge when we get there. 🤝👍
This animation is the best so far, theoretically fusion is so simple but achieving it IRL in big quantities is such a challenge, thanks ITER for taking the challenge personal and bring this to reality.
Agreed, the music completely ruined segments of the video. Good information, good animations, terrible segment segues with that awful music and corny text.
Subscriber of day one here. Great project on all fronts: energy, technology, international cooperation. Love you! However for the huge impact you represent your videos desperately need two or three people that are equally good at understanding TH-cam as the rest of your staff is good at building a fusion reactor.
I appreciate that this is a communication to those who aren't technical but I have two issues with this video... 1st - who chose the music and thought that was a good idea? Really cheapens the video. 2nd - Use of the word "magic" in relation to describing physics. A disservice to our understanding of the universe and its properties.
thank god I am not the only one.... this video was painful to watch. Took good information by professionals and made it into some weird cringey video with that music.
Get some people who know the youtube game to edit your videos. This kind of editing is not going to get you far in term of publicity. Also, do shorts, a lot of them. You will probably reach 100x more audience with shorts. Don't notify your subs! or the algorithm will punish you.
Really cool! Would be interesting to hear them also explain how energy is harvested from the fusion after it's started. One thing I've also never grasped is where does the energy come from? How do we actually get more energy out than we put in?
It is just like a chemical reaction. The ingredients have more internal energy than the products. The difference is used up in speeding up the products and you get heat.
@@PaddyPatrone Most of the usable energy energy comes out of the fusion reaction in the form of fast neutrons. The neutrons have no electric charge, so they don't care about the magnetic fields. Thus they travel on until they hit the blanket where they deposit their kinetic energy. The blanket is heated and the heat can be carried away be a coolant.
they have 3 different energy recollection systems, they are planning to test one by one to check which is the best, aka produces the highest energy ratio
ITER is a testing facility. The heat will not be used as it is not a power plant. Many systems could be implemented to get the heat out, though, with the most obvious being a liquid heat pump.
The neutrons escape the tokamak, and should be captured in a blanket, which has two roles: 1. Breed tritium through reactions with lithium, and which will be eventually injected back into the tokamak. In other words, breed fuel for the reactor. 2. Heat up, and the heat will be transferred to a liquid sodium circuit. This heat will heat water to produce vapour, which will power the electricity producing turbines. One of the many roles of ITER will be to test blanket designs for pilot (demonstration or DEMO) reactors, it's still not designed to produce electricity.
He soñado varias veces con un lugar asi, como un lugar hecho de metal y en medio parecido a un reactor nuclear. Con gente con bata blanca. Nunca he estado en un lugar asi😮 asi que empece a buscar en youtube y esto es mas parecido a mi sueño
The nuclear reactions emit a neutron with high kinetic energy. Neutrons do not care about magnetic fields, so they crash into the wall and thus heat up the wall. The heat from wall, aka blanket, can be used to drive a steam turbine, just like in any old fission or coal plant.
Nice, but how do you gather this energy that is produced? Dont tell me that i will generate heat to spin old steam turbines like nuclear fission crap....
Would love to see the presentation of the content do justice to the quality of the content. The editing of this video is literally worse than high school level.
One thing that i never heardt was how they will transfer the heat of the reactor to boil water. In fission reactor the water reachts 320ºc pressurized and still liquid.
The general idea would be to have a layer outside the magnetic confinement that absorbs the neutrons from the fusion as the neutrons aren't effected by magnetism. ITER is more about understanding running fusion at scale so won't be aiming to generate energy. Follow on reactors will build upon the learnings.
The neutrons escape the tokamak, and should be captured in a blanket, which has two roles: 1. Breed tritium through reactions with lithium, and which will be eventually injected back into the tokamak. In other words, breed fuel for the reactor. 2. Heat up, and the heat will be transferred to a liquid sodium circuit. This heat will heat water to produce vapour, which will power the electricity producing turbines. One of the many roles of ITER will be to test blanket designs for pilot (demonstration or DEMO) reactors, it's still not designed to produce electricity.
Every decade they say "fusion will work (probably with positive energy output) next decade" Now give us more taxpayer's money and we tell you same old tales about how wonderful will be to have a sun in a cage.
A scam would imply that they promised a given outcome and aren't delivering on it. This is an experimental facility so delivering on promises other than trying something and reporting the findings is outside the scope of this project. This is the price of scientific and technological progress. If you're not willing to make mistakes you're setting yourself up for failure.
Finally something I can easily recreate at home!
The structure of the ITER central solenoid-the large, 1,000-tonne electromagnet in the centre of the machine is heavy, give me a shout-out and i will help you lift it.
I'll supply you with tritium
I get you a doner kebab
@@LabRat10101 Awesome! Thanks! 🙏
I'll hit you up as soon as I get the kit from wish. Might be a tight fit around the staircase but we'll cross that bridge when we get there. 🤝👍
@@DigalogYou will be the Backbone of this whole operation! Much appreciated!
This animation is the best so far, theoretically fusion is so simple but achieving it IRL in big quantities is such a challenge, thanks ITER for taking the challenge personal and bring this to reality.
Aside from the horrible blaring rock music, an excellent video on the basics of ITER and Fusion!
Agreed, the music completely ruined segments of the video. Good information, good animations, terrible segment segues with that awful music and corny text.
This is probably the best visual explainer of tokamaks I've ever seen. Well done iter. Just work on the music lol it's too all over the place
music is strange and i wish it was a 10 or 20 minute version of this. Pretty sure we're capable of holding our attention for more than 3 minutes ;)
Thanks, now i'm omw to make a fusion reactor 👍
Subscriber of day one here. Great project on all fronts: energy, technology, international cooperation. Love you! However for the huge impact you represent your videos desperately need two or three people that are equally good at understanding TH-cam as the rest of your staff is good at building a fusion reactor.
Great video but awful music.
The cool kids love that stuff, apparently.
Agree, cringeworthy music
The cool kids loves the old-school style music
Oof
Agreed, awful music, and the cool kids do not like that sort of music.
I appreciate that this is a communication to those who aren't technical but I have two issues with this video...
1st - who chose the music and thought that was a good idea? Really cheapens the video.
2nd - Use of the word "magic" in relation to describing physics. A disservice to our understanding of the universe and its properties.
thank god I am not the only one.... this video was painful to watch. Took good information by professionals and made it into some weird cringey video with that music.
Cringey as all get out, fam.@@HankDevos
Great!
Hopefully people will look back at this state of the art reactor like we do the model T.
Get some people who know the youtube game to edit your videos.
This kind of editing is not going to get you far in term of publicity.
Also, do shorts, a lot of them. You will probably reach 100x more audience with shorts. Don't notify your subs! or the algorithm will punish you.
One day these reactors would be as small as laptop or phone
Really cool! Would be interesting to hear them also explain how energy is harvested from the fusion after it's started.
One thing I've also never grasped is where does the energy come from? How do we actually get more energy out than we put in?
It is just like a chemical reaction. The ingredients have more internal energy than the products. The difference is used up in speeding up the products and you get heat.
@@bernhardschmalhofer855 How do they harvest the heat? Since it`s contained in a magnetic field, where are they putting the heat exchangers?
@@PaddyPatrone Most of the usable energy energy comes out of the fusion reaction in the form of fast neutrons. The neutrons have no electric charge, so they don't care about the magnetic fields. Thus they travel on until they hit the blanket where they deposit their kinetic energy. The blanket is heated and the heat can be carried away be a coolant.
they have 3 different energy recollection systems, they are planning to test one by one to check which is the best, aka produces the highest energy ratio
@@bernhardschmalhofer855 thank you!
I had hopes this would tell me something I didn't already know, but alas not.
Fusion: How to blow money with no results….forever!
how does the "lit the sun energy inside cage" heat gets out of the cage/magnetic field to be used without losing the vacuum/magnetic field ?
ITER is a testing facility. The heat will not be used as it is not a power plant.
Many systems could be implemented to get the heat out, though, with the most obvious being a liquid heat pump.
@@AdelaeR This is obviously already the case because the machine would melt if not.
The neutron (who get 80% of the energy) is not affected by the magnetic field so it crash into the wall and generate heat
The neutrons escape the tokamak, and should be captured in a blanket, which has two roles:
1. Breed tritium through reactions with lithium, and which will be eventually injected back into the tokamak. In other words, breed fuel for the reactor.
2. Heat up, and the heat will be transferred to a liquid sodium circuit. This heat will heat water to produce vapour, which will power the electricity producing turbines.
One of the many roles of ITER will be to test blanket designs for pilot (demonstration or DEMO) reactors, it's still not designed to produce electricity.
@@TheFrenchGamer So you make the wall into a heatexchanger?
One-hundred MILLION degrees! Humans over here creating temps hotter than our very own Sol! 🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞
This fusion problem keeps coming back, I need to solve it in order to go on
Should be ready in about a millennium.
Awesome!!! Keep up the good work!
I want to be in your apprenticeship program, if u have one😢
Let there be light
He soñado varias veces con un lugar asi, como un lugar hecho de metal y en medio parecido a un reactor nuclear. Con gente con bata blanca. Nunca he estado en un lugar asi😮 asi que empece a buscar en youtube y esto es mas parecido a mi sueño
I wonder how they will build the informatic component as it was outsourced to Russia.
Actually Russia is a full partner of ITER, so you can't call it outsourcing. I agree the question is if they will be able to deliver.
I have been waiting for years, turn it on already
"Fusion: The energy source of the future that will always remain so."
Weird transition music choice?? Good vidoe tho
THE FCKING MUSIC GUYS, IT IS TOO LOUD
No!, I never confused tokamak and tomahawk. Scientists are odd people
This does not explain how you harvest & convert the produced energy into useful electricity.....
LIF says you're spending too much on Fusion....
And how do you harness the energy of the Tomahawk? This question remain unanswered?
The nuclear reactions emit a neutron with high kinetic energy. Neutrons do not care about magnetic fields, so they crash into the wall and thus heat up the wall. The heat from wall, aka blanket, can be used to drive a steam turbine, just like in any old fission or coal plant.
Great video. Horrendous interstitial music. Please hire professional video editors to do future videos!!!
1. Start building a fusion reactor
2. 500 years pass
3. ????
4. PROFIT!
How is nobody else talking about this massive worldwide accomplishment? I hope it doesn't burn a hole through earth 🌎
Nice, but how do you gather this energy that is produced?
Dont tell me that i will generate heat to spin old steam turbines like nuclear fission crap....
It will generate heat to spin steam turbines.
@@bernhardschmalhofer855 what a crap
@@RodolfoARaimundo Well, if you get fast neutrons there is not much choice in what you can do with them.
Would love to see the presentation of the content do justice to the quality of the content. The editing of this video is literally worse than high school level.
😎👌
I bet on Wendelstein 7-X, not ITER.
One thing that i never heardt was how they will transfer the heat of the reactor to boil water. In fission reactor the water reachts 320ºc pressurized and still liquid.
The general idea would be to have a layer outside the magnetic confinement that absorbs the neutrons from the fusion as the neutrons aren't effected by magnetism. ITER is more about understanding running fusion at scale so won't be aiming to generate energy. Follow on reactors will build upon the learnings.
The neutrons escape the tokamak, and should be captured in a blanket, which has two roles:
1. Breed tritium through reactions with lithium, and which will be eventually injected back into the tokamak. In other words, breed fuel for the reactor.
2. Heat up, and the heat will be transferred to a liquid sodium circuit. This heat will heat water to produce vapour, which will power the electricity producing turbines.
One of the many roles of ITER will be to test blanket designs for pilot (demonstration or DEMO) reactors, it's still not designed to produce electricity.
@ROEPK3
You may "never (have) heardt" it, but if you were to read a few of the comments, you would already knowd it several times.
Easier said than done. "Fusion: The energy source of the future that will always remain so."
'for the benefit of mankind' what a lie
Every decade they say "fusion will work (probably with positive energy output) next decade" Now give us more taxpayer's money and we tell you same old tales about how wonderful will be to have a sun in a cage.
That's the price of making science, we need to investigate more until we get the results we are looking for
this is a scam. Grifters
A scam would imply that they promised a given outcome and aren't delivering on it. This is an experimental facility so delivering on promises other than trying something and reporting the findings is outside the scope of this project. This is the price of scientific and technological progress. If you're not willing to make mistakes you're setting yourself up for failure.