Neil deGrasse Tyson shares why fusion discovery could change the future of energy
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- Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson discusses U.S. scientists making a major breakthrough in ‘limitless, zero-carbon’ fusion energy on 'Kennedy.' #foxbusiness #kennedy
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Politics aside. This is a win for humanity.
Only if we spread it to the entire world and don't let one country/organization/set-of-humans control it.
Everything is politics. Saying, "I want to save the planet" is fundamentally political. You're alienating the people who don't want to save the planet.
Sadly, this seems to be a press release that says "Pretty soon, we'll have a press release."
Look into it, before you count your chickens... and youll understand the " why and when " they just dropped this. Nothing is as it seems anymore.
@@bill5316 My thoughts exactly. Abundant, decentralized and cheap energy is the opposite of what the globalists want...so this is either a ruse, or it will be buried.
We're still YEARS away from fusion as a practical energy source... However, every step forward is a step in the right direction. I hope I can see it in my lifetime.
Decades at least, probably centuries.
A.G.I Will be man's last invention
@@richb2229 more funding and it would only be decades
No, it won't take that long. Once engineers get their hands on it and start messing around, you're going see rapid change.
@@nyteshayde1197 Easier said than done to design, build, create safety protocols, revise, etc for fusion processes that are complex to manifest into something viable and cost effective.
Hell even the storage of plasma is complex. Good luck. I give it at least a few decades.
Can’t believe we went from banging rocks together to make fire to literally harnessing the power of a star. What a time to be alive.
🦟‼️🦟‼️dude I literally banged two rocks together yesterday and it was awesome what is your problem
That's what my grandfather said, when he came here in 1903, and the wright brothers flew the first plane!
Yeah
Have you taken the vaxx?
@@themalaailaanaa1347 How did you jump from fusion to vaccines? Big leap. Not even near the topic.
Been praying ages for this. Hopefully the States puts all the effort needed to see it's fruition.
If the world were shown more physics, science, engineering and technology advancements , perhaps some young great minds could be inspired contribute the advancement of humanity instead of what we’re currently being shown;
Sports, entertainment politics and war.
This brings up my question. How will the military-industrial complex use this? And with that politicians?
Unfortunately, for real science and engineering, you can't count on feelings or group think. It's so hard for snowflakes.
Carbon isn't the problem, lying about it is. Fear mongering.
You're shown whatever you want in most of the world, did YOU contribute to the advancement of humanity today? 🤪
@@nunyabusiness5075 No. My contribution is limited to being kind and caring to humanity. It’s nothing when compared to that of those physicists and engineers who have used such knowledge for geopolitical dominance.
Well, imagine all the money saved if we didn't go to war, or if we had no profiteering companies where profits are all that matters. Of course a certain amount of defense spending would be needed, but if we all focused our efforts toward human and world betterment we would be a much happier and advanced civilization. We have instead profiteering, and so a vast majority of our engineers are spent trying to get you to waste your time by being addicted to a game or your phone or screen in some way. Politicians maintain their power by outraging and dividing the people. It's quite a shame.
This is literally like when people were finally able to make fire, before that nights were cold. Now we are at the beginning of harnessing fusion, millions of times more powerful to make electricity. We knew we could make more energy with fusion, and now we all know it's possible.
Calm down they have only performed an experiment not an actual application for a power station.
@@bighands69 Getting a net energy gain for the first time in history after just 60 years of research is monumental. Don't underrate this huge achievement just because it's not a commercial reactor yet. It took us over 200 years to figure out solar power and a similar amount of time to figure out batteries. We're going at a crazy pace right now and I'm here for it.
@@bighands69
Half the size of a bb they said. Imagine going bigger soon and or scaling up. It's going to be amazing.
@@SubtleHawk solar isn't cheap and either is batteries
There are over 50 fission reactors being built and over 100 fission reactors planned. It will unfold over decades.
Are they wasting a gazilion dollars for an obsolete technology???
When I’m outside and my legs are tired,
I Neil on deGrasse
this is gonna be so awesome, can’t wait to hear the discoveries
I was fortunate enough to take an astronomy class in 1987 at the University of Maryland in which Neil deGrasse Tyson was the guest lecturer that semester. It was definitely one of those classes that you wanted to go to.
@ TAFKAEH Mr. deGrasse joins showmanship talent and scientific knowledge. That is why he appeals to the masses but if you studied basic physics before getting into astronomy, you would know that the principle of conservation of energy is unshakeable while Mr deGrasse is skillfully using his words to make believe the general public that it is possible to get more energy out than you put in. The interviewer may not know that but a scientist with integrity should carefully explain that the simplistic interpretation given on the video is not what really happend in the lab.
Which only means you don't know much about him.
Couldn’t get a word in
How could you take a class in 1987 if you weren’t born until 2233?
Great, more information from the celebrity who still denies the existence of UFOs', even after the military released the proof.
Zero interest in the opinions of Mr. deGrasse.
This self-important man has more interest in his own opinions than in recognizing proof in science.
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Best succinct description. What I hear them saying (betwee the lines, but not saying) is that fusion is unstable and can explode, just without all of the residual effects. The difficulty it seems, in fusion is maintaining stability, so you may have outages or explosions. I look forward to learning more.
Read the scientific data! I have! I had to take a course in physics lol but it makes sense! No explosion whatsoever
@@lgonzalez1154 Well that is great news then, if there is no unstable explosions involved. Thank you for sharing. Also, please point me to that scientific data you found.
Neil is a legend.
As a retired material scientist, I have been following this "HOLY GRAIL" of ENERGY (though not really FREE🤣🤣) generation from controlled FUSION. This is an epic moment just like the FIRST DEMO of TRANSISTOR, CONNECTED COMPUTERS which led to the internet, etc. Well done by the brilliant team at NIF of course with the bold investment by DOE&DOD with our TAXES. This is the sort of science that has just WORLD changing implications and WE THE PEOPLE OF the USA should be very proud and supportive of such work for solving BIG&DIFFICULT TECHNOLOGY PROBLEMS
agreed this is what taxes should be used for, preparing for the future
Thought you were sending an encrypted message with all those captalized words 😂
It is a waste of research dollars that is less worthwhile than the transmutation of distilled water into gold, which is more economical with current fusion technology and any future advances in fusion than the production of energy ever could be. That is to say, both of them are useless.
The reactors are even more radioactive than fission reactors unless they have this magic pixie dust fuel called helium-3 that is effectively impossible to get in even gram quantities. The only way to get it in decent quantities involves mining the moon, which is a ridiculous proposition. The reactors have an issue where the superconductors needed for field containment spontaneously stop superconducting, which effectively turn the reactors into bombs. Also, the timeline for maybe producing a reactor that is net energy positive keeps slipping by decades. The entire thing is a scam orchestrated by the physics community.
It would be nice if journalists asked Dr. Tyson about how the physics community solves the radiation problem with fuels that we can actually obtain (they do not). Saying it is an engineering problem is a cop out. That is like saying that going to another galaxy in your lifetime is an engineering problem. It is an insurmountable problem. Also, asking him about the problem of the field containment spontaneously failing from the superconductors spontaneously failing to superconduct would be interesting too, although I suspect he will say it is an engineering problem, despite nobody knowing why it happens.
All efforts here would be better spent on photovoltaic research, which could give us more energy than we could possibly use for centuries. It is better known as solar energy and unlike nuclear fusion, it is not a scam.
Right here is the radioactive heart of the matter (pun intended).
How do you know what it is? He just said it hasn't actually been disclosed yet chicken little.
To be able to sit down with him for an hour and talk about physics would be so much fun.
Call him and ask if you could visit his house. I bet he would welcome you with open arms. 45 minutes talking and 15 minutes pillow fighting. Best day of your life. Act now!
If you can handle being treated like an idiot and being disregarded and interrupted relentlessly haha. Watch him on Joe Rogan, it's rough. So yeah, try the pillow fight instead, better way to spend the night
@@FatTracksMusic If you think you're not an idiot when around NDT, you're an idiot all the time.
He isnt as smart as he sounds. He has an agenda.
@@kanttarellivaara 😂😂😂😂
Buy that book. I bought a signed copy the other day and not only is it a treasured possession memento wise, it is genuinely a good read that makes you feel small. Which is good. ♥️
I agree!
4:44 what it’s like talking to your crush lmaoo
As soon as I heard the news, I was waiting for Neil
We cannot even imagine 100 years from now, or even just 25 years!
Nothing will change
@@bidensucks2922 Spoken like a typically narrow-minded, unimaginative conservative.
@@bidensucks2922 average low iq individual who believes they live at the peak of technology
That’s why we need to save our democracy now!
How ignorant. Compare technology from 25 yrs ago to now
Not a moment to lose. I guess what might be on the minds of viewers is how much surplus energy divided into cost. Kudos to the physicists. We needed them now more than ever
Several industries are going to try to squash this wonderment...guard it with great courage and fortitude!
You know it’s big when Neal DeGrasse is giddy, as if he is a child before a birthday. 🎉
On fusion energy, he has little idea what is actually happening in the field.
@@kreek22 guarantee he has more idea than you, tiny nobody
@@ryantogo8359 Charismatics turn people like you into zombies. Well, at least we get a few dumb Hollyweird shows out of you sub-humans.
Human wisdom..... the irony of our downfall
@@Nathan-hc2bb Really? So you prefer ignorance or all human wisdom is in your bible?
“Niel Degrasse Tyson the type of guy who will wake everyone up just to tell them he’s going to sleep”
Right…
He is such a phony.🤣😂🤣😂
Your a comment stealer. Attention much?
@@guyguyver7552 A phony with a PHD in astrophysics? Lmao.
@@menotyou7314 ...he is just another Bill Nye 7reak..😊
This is the type of NEWS this country needs more of
Nice to see a fox comment section that’s positive
That is one in a million.
It's educational without hatred and I I I'm fallliiinnggg out of my chair !
@@Gogalen789
Don't get used to it.
They will go back to being pro ignorance fasc!sts tomorrow.
You go to hell, loser! 😉👍
I'm not so sure about that. For a moment I was surprised to see Degrasse selling this on Fox and the presenter seemed all the willing to talk about it but then the moment he starts condemning fossil fuels by name she shuts him down.🤔
It's just another stalling tactic. Since the first tokamak (fusion reactor) was built in 1958 it became a joke that fusion on tap would be decades in the future. And the latest briefing is again that it will be decades before this new tech can be useful for the grid. The materials needed for the process are too rare for any regional let alone global power supply. That's too late for the climate crisis. The oil markets will love this news bc they know it will distract people from the need to invest in already reliable renewables.
Brilliant presentation. If we had more teachers of this calibre, the cluelessness of this world would not stand a chance.
Observation: Just one Neil deGrasse Tyson can power an average-sized American city for 30 years - let's just build more of him...
Agreed!😊
National treasure and resource that man.
@HandbrakeBiscuit The announcement of this undeniable scientific achievement is rightly deserved but obscured by the fact that it gives the public the false impression that the basic law of conservation of energy has been defeated. Mr deGrasse should have clarified by giving an honest explanation to the word play taking place, that it is impossible to breach that law and that the offcial version leaves some things out. Any physics undergrad knows that if it was possible to get more energy than what is put in means that the universe as known to us cannot exist.
Lies again? Dallas Bull S**t Deaf Blind
You would need a Neil deGrasse Dyson (sphere) to do that (if you get what I mean)..
What a wonderful explanation from Dr. Tyson.🎉
We all need to acknowledge what an historic moment this is. Fox Business has brought on a black man to talk about something other than sports. This is world changing.
The horse sound bite/ analogy was proof of a master at work
That "BREAKTHROUGH" is 30-40 years OLD!
He pushing a book!
Pretty sure it happened yesterday
well we seem to going the route of hot air atm
Well explained
My cousin is an engineer who worked in the Princeton Fusion project.
He thought Nuclear fusion would replace fission in the future but we had not figured out how to use it, and maybe we never would.
He says We don't have to worry about another meltdown like Chernobel
I love listening to NDT, especially when he's on Rogan's show. He makes insanely complicated scientific concepts and technologies understandable for someone who didn't go to MIT or have some scientific background
A lot of stuff he tells Rogan is wrong. And Rogan's listeners tend not to notice. So it doesn't seem like he imparts understanding.
@Hollister David Give an example of what he was wrong on. And please do not respond with something that physicists disagree on.
@@HopDavid "Rogan's listeners tend not to notice" lol are you kidding me? look at the comments section on one of neals videos on rogan, its just everyone roasting on him and rightfully so.
@@zeffez8161 (Doing a search for the Rogan interview where Neil tells Joe some infinities are bigger than others...) Oh my gosh, you correct. There are a lot of people dogpiling on Neil for his incorrect explanation.
Maybe I should stop dissing Rogan's fans.
@@HopDavid You should see the "joe rogan recommends lex fridman" clip, Neil really shows his true colors there its kind of insane
Neil Tyson is such an animated speaker....love watching his explanations.
He has a hard time admitting when he’s wrong though
My uncle had been working on this project for 20 years at lawerence Livermore. Pretty excited to see this
Neil is the only human that could make me watch FOX..
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Love this guy how he explains joyfully complex things with very simple and easy to understand examples.
I bet he had a boner this whole interview
I didn’t know the word equilibrate existed and now I’m going to use it regularly.
Its a term from chemistry
@@fu1ck1you
equilibrate is a word. It's used a lot in Chemistry, but it's in in the English lexicon.
spaghettification is a term used in astrophysics to describe what happens near the event horizon of black holes. It's not a Neil word.
It's less that he's inventing words, and more that you're discovering the depths of your ignorance.
I’m very happy with the questions
This is great, just imagine we could have this in a hundred years time.
Fantastic
As someone majoring in Power and Energy (Electrical subfield) Engineering, I'm excited for what the future of energy consumption looks like
Watch the forbidden truth! 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥👀🔥
Oh it’s gonna change everything alright. Especially since it’s going to be controlled by the government. Time to go fully off grid.
"Unlimited power!". That was an excellent impression of Emperor Palpatine.
Yeah i liked that reference. She's a nerd and i hope NDT and her made passionate nerd love together
Great to see Neil appear on this show to help educate these simple folk
I'm happy to see Fox isn't shooting this down and instead backing big oil.
Neil DeGrifft Tyson will bandwagon anything mainstream science
we may be a long time away but now this concept is in our grasp stunning
This should be major headlines.
We need a sit down with Neil and Jordan
I would to shake this man's hand for Christmas. He is so awesome.
Watch the forbidden truth! 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥👀🔥
Happy to see a great channel like fox being a guest on Neil’s program
I couldn’t find the words to describe this “pairing” but you did lol
Great innovation and great timing
I'm not sure if this is true but I just read that they used 2MJ laser to produce 3MJ output which sounds great but they also mentioned that they used 200MJ to power up that 2MJ laser. Then it doesn't sound so good any more. Does anyone have more info about it?
Correct! This is just a small step in the journey of fusion energy. The energy required to ignite the reaction is tremendous, and the return is low. But we hope to maintain the return of energy to pay back the ignition cost and then continue running the reactor. (And, well, making the return more efficient wouldn't hurt either)
Our current tech is similar to making sparks. It takes a lot of energy to start a fire, but then all it requires is easily accessible fuel.
Didn’t you watch the news conference.. all you need to know is that there was more output than input. Getting a net gain, even if it was a small amount, currently there’s no other energy system or energy source in the world that can do this.
@@Editthem But that's his point. There wasn't an actual net gain. They haven't told us the whole story. It actually took 400MJ to create the lazers which in turn created a concentration of 2MJ to create fusion, and the output was 3.15MJ. This is what wasn't in the conference. Look in to it.
@@trevordelaney3144 the purpose of the experiment to prove a successful capture of the nuclear fusion reaction was the input of the 2MJ and output of 3MJ. Clarifying the other factors is just to tamp down the expectations that this is the endgame. Basically a HUGE scientific discovery was made with this announcement proving that it is possible to achieve a capture of a net positive in nuclear fusion. You can akin this to like the discovery of atoms. But like Neil said, this will now boil down to an engineering problem. How do we scale it up? Can we make it more efficient? Can we get that reaction to happen 10X in a few seconds and continue doing that for extended periods of time? Thus, overcome all the other energy it took to start up the initial input/output. It’s so exciting to just know it has been done, but we are a long way away from practical applications.
@@elivelazquez4729Yea fair enough I get ya👍
This is the only ever time he has been extremely clear about explaining the topic to the public.
Hopefully in my lifetime this will become the breakthrough that helps save ourselves from ourselves
how will it do that? The world's problems are caused by selfishness, greed, xenophobia and hatred (hence the exitance of Fox) how will cheap energy change the political right's nature and make the world better? Will it create universal respect for or Universal healthcare or universal respect for scientific truth (looking at you there De Santis)? I think not. But it might make AR15s and body armour cheaper, so that's a win for the GOP and its private army.
it is called God
@@jeffhruska8626 Nope there is no invisible wizard flying around in the clouds.
An excellent lecture from the world's astrophysicist.
One more giant step for mankind. ❤️
I can listen to Neil deGrasse the whole day
I might listen if he said stuff worth hearing.
This is all false Hope.
And be the stupider for it.
The scientist for non-scientists.
There are at least three programs currently indicating they are close to having a demonstration fusion reactor up and running in the next three years. If any of those three can demonstrate they can produce more power output than input, they'll have a leg up. The question is how much and what type of resistance will they encounter from the fossil fuel industry and the environmental movement.
there will be no pushback from the environmental community, this is them at their best.
France is working on a reactor that can 10x the energy input from the laser.
There won't be pushback. A pivot to new energy is coming and they know it. They're getting ready to invest in the technology and they will likely train the work force that will build it.
@@jtchaney310
Apart from those that do not want nuclear energy.
As an environmentalist (I guess), the only thing that worries me about fusion energy is the prospect of "unlimited power" to "fuel capitalism". That's not good news for planet Earth. We should scale _down_ our "exploitation" of "natural resources", not increase it. The biodiversity crisis doesn't get as much attention as the climate crisis, but it too threatens our existence. With great power comes great responsibility. We don't seem to be a very responsible species.
This doesn't much much because the power used for the laser is more than you get out... but the media loves a good "BREAKTHROUGH" story :)
Politics aside, Tyson is a joy to watch. He really is passionate.
They've got the physics down. Now, we just need to wait for the Engineers to make it tangible. A few years to a decade. Let's see what the future beings.
No, they don't, not even close.
I'll bet $10k there is no commercially-viable fusion reactor operating a decade from now.
@@toddrf 2 decades and id take that bet
@@davidchang5265 Considering there's already functioning Tokamak reactors that can't sustain a reaction (which this solves), you should end up a rich man.
@@kreek22 Didn't take long to transform a computer from the size of a skyscraper into your pocket. Don't underestimate human ingenuity.
I’m glad he simplified it 😂
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this is HUGE for Humanity!!!! Well done!
Finally something positive from Fox. Science is a great equalizer.
Charisma is a great stupifier, like a pacifier for adults.
This is the type of tec you need to progress to a type 1 civilization
With the immense amount of gravity causing the fusion reactions in stars, it’s always seemed unlikely to me that we’ll be able to replicate that immense gravitational energy in a controlled way.
Kennedy your freaking awesome.. Great interview. Why i recall way back when you finaly meet trent reznor.. had some choice comments about his dreads.. come a long long way since then....
Fusion could make the world a peaceful place no more war for energy.
People will always find reasons for war.
Somehow I doubt that.
It depends who is allowed to have this technology or is even able to build it with the resources they have.
or it will make war
Human nature is a problem.
Fusion is going to be so fantastic. “It will be the wave of the future when it is perfected in 20 years. “ said every physicist for the last 75 years.
and yet Still Steam Power. Fusion heat ?
Ugh... I get so tired of "they said blah blah blah . . . decades ago and it didn't happen!" Complaining about humans making bad predictions, and then using _that_ to _predict_ that things will fail is the definition of futility.
It's grant time💰
I would be very happy to be wrong.
The saying "the boy that Cried Wolf" will be replaced with " the scientist that cried sustainable fusion ".
@@dafrasier1 steam is highly efficient in turning heat into electricity. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Fusion does not create free electrons, so we need a way to convert the heat produced by it into electricity and steam turbines are a great method.
We have picked a lot of low hanging scientific and technological fruit in last 170 years. Most of our most important discoveries were made before 1960s. According to Pareto principle, further progress is dealing with much harder problems (like this fusion or energy storage density or true AI or space colonization) and it will take us long time to make progress on all that. That is natural. But this event is a major inflection point.
Thank you for inventing it.
“The Power of the Sun at the palm of my hand” -Doc Ock 😳. Where’s Spider-Man 😂
The magnetic containment required for plasma.... is also the key to (for lack of better terminology) the ability for 'tuning' gravity in propulsion.... and thus how UAP's move seemingly devoid of normal atmospheric friction/gravity effects on the 'mass' of objects.
They do that because the recordings are taken from moving jet fighters and the vast background of ocean and sky create apparent movement.
oh dear oh dear. Tinfoil hat for Bob please!
@@michaeldavison9808
Size 2 for Michael as well !
Mr. Tyson is the high school science teacher we all should have had. He is awesome at presentation. Harnessing plasma with a electrified gyro sphere is similar to Doc. Oc from spider man "the power of the sun in the palm of your hand". A faraday cage is used to block energy from the outside. Reversing that same principle to "contain" energy is just awesome. The future is now... LOL (movie quote).
I don’t think so. I had excellent science teachers in high school. I don’t see Tyson as a high school teacher.
I didn't have Mr Tyson as a teacher at school, but I went to Mt Tyson state school, does that count?
Except a magnetic bottle for non-neutral plasma confinement is literally nothing like a faraday cage...
@@GH-oi2jf I agree - he has been successful at lampooning flat Earthers and using that as a sort-of grift to promote his masterclass. That's about all I see in terms of his "high school science" acumen. That being said, in fairness he would be up to task to be sure.
Nope. I hate his ego.
Fusion generators at every home solves our failing grid problem
Hopefully this will get everyone fighting about which power source is more efficient & environmental friendly to start finding common ground. Seriously, this is great news. Being able to control & contain nuclear power without potentially any to little waste or spill is absolutely amazing.
Prob one of his best interviews . Humble
Well, he's thoroughly wrong about the current state of fusion research. On the other hand, wrongness doesn't seem to bother people when the wrongful one is charismatic.
Maybe time to watch PBS or BBC?
Love it!
I'm usually not the biggest NDT fan, but he did a great job this time!
Finally. We're well overdue for Mr. Fusion
Time to build a starship, a massive starship.
great interview. excellent interviewer. and a top scientist who can relate to the common man. thank God for science and smart people.
Wonderful educator 💕
We live in a time where Neil degresse still explaining science stuff to us, thats so lucky.
Nice for you, maybe. The rest of us got a science education when we were in college.
Yeah some of us already in high school- it’s kinda pathetic so many folks need it
@@johnnastrom9400 Come on, the guy is just being positive. It would be amazing if Feynman was alive to comment on this. I have a math and cs degree, btw.
Only in America - Orion successfully splashes down and then this a couple of days later. Cheers from Australia!
or China or India? Or the ESA? if that had been their goal. America isn't the world technology leader it used to be. Europe and the advance Pacific rim countries (and Aus!) are in the same league.
This is exciting.
I would love to buy NDT a beer and listen to him talk about science.
find better physicists - by "Astrophysicist standards" he's more like Bill Nye than Stephen Hawking (RIP) or Kip Thorne.
@@danmccarron0 Yeah Neil believes nothing created everything. Then there is the eternal universe, where matter and energy is from everlasting to everlasting, just like God. Neil is religious because he has Faith in things that can't be seen or proven.
He thinks the trans movement is reasonable...
@@kreek22 average FOX viewer
Yeah, he’s more of a bong guy
A lot of hot air!
then shut your mouth.
Shut up dumbass.
Lets not have any science on Fox News
This will be a HUGE benefit for space travel!
this lab is in partnership with CAL Berkeley. I earned an MSc in Biochemistry there. It''s such an incredible place, this comes as no suprise to me. They have some of the brightest working there. That university is top notch when it comes to physics and chemistry. Would recommend to anyone.
Neil is the best ambassador for science to the general public that there is today, he is a spiritual descendant of Carl Sagan we need more guys like him and Carl.
Nothing spiritual about this guy in the slightest.
@@HOPEincLONDON. lol
Two guys who believe anything, and I mean anything is possible in the realm of theoretic physics (multiverses, infinite possibility theory, 11+ dimensions, etc) BUT, scoff at the possibility of a creator to the universe (God)...for that, I scoff at their pretentiousness and pomposity, as well as their hypocritical 'it's okay to believe in anything you can imagine, EXCEPT God' standpoint.
Sagan's eloquence and deeper cogency can't really be found in Neil. Perhaps he shouldn't have turned Sagan down all those years ago. Some of Sagan's greater cosmic romanticism might have rubbed off on him, to the benefit of us all.
I'll believe that they have solved the fusion problem when it becomes applicable, used and widespread.
Like nuclear facilities that generate electricity?
But this is the most critical hurdle. The next one is pushing the fossil fuel industry out of the way so we can move forward and implement energy solutions using this new discovery
@@Turn420 It’s not happening we can see next 20-25 years of lobbying , buying politicians to suppress this.
@@eon1779 ...Run a car.
@@Turn420 Sure...as soon as it's practical. I'm not holding my breath. We'll see. Miracle power sources are claimed every year.
We are getting into Spiderman and Dr Octavius territory now and I am not sure we are ever going back…
Awesome news!
Water vapor is a GHG as effective as CO2 according to GHG Theory. There is 50 times as much water vapor in the atmosphere as CO2.
True but the water vapor isn't the source of the problems. Water vapor doesn't impact climate change on it's own. It can't. There is a limit to how much water vapor the atmosphere can hold, and then it just starts to rain.
Temperature determines how much water vapor the atmosphere can hold. However, what happens is that the other greenhouse gases don't condense into water and rain like water vapor does. So those gases do continue to heat the atmosphere by trapping more heat. Then, as that happens, more water vapor is also able to remain in the atmosphere too. Because of the higher temperature. So together it creates a positive feedback type of loop. However, more clouds and rain cycling a higher volume of water through the water cycle may have a cooling effect. It is very hard to model accurately.
welcome to the beginnings of a Quantum-flux Fuel Generator !! this is unequivocally an underrated breakthrough
It's not a breakthrough. Gell-Mann amnesia eats everyone.
:) i am glad all the smartest persons have work in these
"The course of the world does not require to be changed by the agency of any person. What is necessary is to change our outlook on this world."
Big step forward but as NDT said the engineers will have to design a system where this excess thermal energy can boil water, create steam and turn a turbine. Once that happens, there will be mega jobs setting these things up everywhere. Automobiles did take over for horse and buggy, steam engines did take over for sailing vessels, but the majority transition did take decades.
The crazy thing about fusion is that there is theoretically a way to directly extract energy from the system without turbines. I don't know the specifics of the concept (you can find it if you look for it) but it's being worked on by some big minds with a lot of money and would be a huge step in human energy production.
@@Riskofdisconnect Interesting. I'll have to check that out.
That, and the problems were much simpler to tackle. People discount the tremendous complexity of contemporary engineering, which is not to discount the imagination and aptitude of past engineering, but to cast current issues in realistic light.
if this is achieve, and we get more energy than invested , then its will be self sustainable, its would be idiotic to use any other type of energy even natural solar would be a thing of the past, of course unless harnessed at the source with a dyson sphere, anyway im getting of point, this energy would be cheaper than any other and with no waste being produced... its a no brainer even solar would be more harmful to the environments
@@gerardovelazquez724 natural solar, wind, and hydroelectric power will still exist with fusion. This solves our reliance on non-renewable energy sources like coal, oil, and even nuclear fission (which is far better than the first 2), but our energy grid still needs to be backed up by other means in the event of failures. A civilization can’t rely on one single source of energy, it must use all the resources around it.
Ok …. Show me the money!