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 chose 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.
He said things like "we're generating electricity" I would have like to know what kind of Q values they're getting. And what's the ratio of input electricity to output electricity?
The machine they let you see... Well, that has no power generation tech in it. That machine is just way too small. Their 7th prototype is allegedly 25% bigger, but I heard they're running into thermal neutron issues, which is actually not good at all, because that's going to make all their equipment into radioactive isotopes
@@kayakMike1000 The D-D reaction could generate neutron, and as long as they use D-3He as the fuel, they could not avoid the side reactions. What's more, more frequent pulse will generate more heat and ultimately make their current design a problem. I heard they also proposed to cool the who thing with water and that will increase their overall efficiency. But my feeling is that fission is simple to take the boiling water strategy, but look at the fusion design, it is too complicated and too delicate to have the boiling water design. If they can use 3He-3He reaction, they can avoid the problem of neutrons, but they will have lower output and should need higher temperature to make it work.
Amazing interview, love to see people like David working so efficiently and enthusiastically towards great future of humanity. Thank you Age of Miracles for providing us with this great converstation!
Further to my point about D-D reactions giving tritium as well as helium3, one must then expect the easier reaction between deuterium and tritium to take place. This will give 14 MeV neutrons and will add some nasty complications to the system.
D-D reactions occur at a lower energy input than D-He3 and emit high energy neutrons that must be shielded against to protect equipment and humans in the vicinity. Both D-D and D-He3 reactions will be produced in the method described here, however the neutron energy is ignored . What is to be done about this wasted energy, excess heat, required shielding, and what that shielding does to the overall efficiency and viability of the system? They need to show a plan for handling the neutron problem, neutrons can not be manipulated with electric or magnetic force.
Solar power is a non-solution. The panels get cracked or broke or clouded and they stop working well. Clearing habitat to build large solar farms is eco-lun@cy. The only location it makes any sense to put up panels is locations with a lot of sun on the roofs of existing structures where there is limited damaging weather. Wind-power is an ecological catastrophe. The blade-assemblies wear out in less than a decade and if we generated base-load with wind we would generate more h2zardous w@ste every year (fiber-glass c@uses c@ncer like @sbestos) than the current global total waste production. It's so much waste the only thing we could do with it all is burn it. It is important to note how over-blown CO2 is but we can't emit it for forever so the only options are fission or fusion..
For 5 years the Eirex Technology in Canada has discovered the powerful forces of cavitation and any type of water or contaminated waste plastic is ideal besides oil with poor utility.
Cavitation can break the water molecules without energy intensive electrolysis of water. Any type of salt, polluted or pond water can be utilized to produce the lowest cost hydrogen gaseous fuel is what Eirex Tech in Canada has discovered.
The correct question is can mankind survive climate change with any quality of living without nuclear energy (fission & fusion) in a timely fashion. The answer is NO! We will never get close to where we need to go in the time frame we have to get there, without nuclear (fission & fusion). The solar+batteries at $/KwH is an inadequate analytic framework of the climate change challenge. The clock is ticking and the S is hitting the fan at an accelerating rate. Mankind must have a balls to the wall nuclear build out, with urgency.
Well, those human pests seemed to do very well during the Roman Climate Optimum and Medieval Warm period. During that time, there was a longer growing season and with warmth, the air carried more water in the planetary hydrological cycle. Much of that planet surface is also covered in water that contained significant amounts of dissolved CO2 that was also able to escape the natural warmed oceans. This caused a slight bump in atmospheric CO2 that aided humans with their primitive agriculture technologies. So... Historically, humans will probably thrive on a warmer earth. The are, after all, a tropical primate species that has adapted well to colder climates, but often return to tropical regions in their older ages
@@kayakMike1000 Fallacious argumentation based on an inapplicable comparison. Either your intent, or you are ignorant of the fact. Look deeper at the many differences in the situations.
If you review the real math we have hundreds of years to make the transition but it's going to happen this century. Waste-stream is our biggest environment issue.
His D-D reaction to give He3 also produces tritium. I have not seen this discussed but dealing with the tritium might not be easy. It is fairly nasty from the radiological point of view and I gather not easy to handle - none must be allowed to escape.
I still think there is more study to be done with bifilar transformers containing magnets to find the correct resonant frequency for more power out then power in. I have seen it on a scope that extracting power from magnets is possible Pacific frequencies and coil arrangements in transformers
Some questions: A) what is the cost per mwhr of the fuel, esp tritium/helium 3? B) tritium, very similar, is naturally produced in Canada's heavy water fission reactors. Is that the plan initially?
The real cost would be the cost of deuterium, since Helion plans to breed their helium 3 from it, and tritium can also be bred from deuterium - deuterium fusion reactions. So basically their only real feul source is deuterium, which is readily abundant in see water (it makes up a third of it).
Hi voltage power lines to transfer the electrons around the country or better yet the world from wind/solar/battery(WSB) sources is a far more likely to happen scenario than fusion. fusion is still a process that needs major breakthroughs in the future and it may or may never happen. Hi voltage transmission combined with WSB can be implemented now now breakthroughs required for baseline energy needs. Local solar/battery at individual homes and larger scale community WSB projects can replace the Peaker demand now supplied by fossil burning plants. If fusion is ever a viable source of electricity and if fusion can compete with the ever decreasing total cost of energy that WSB we can add that to the grid sources, one of the main reasons that the fusion industry is being bankrolled is so that the fossil fuel industry can continue to slow the replacement of fossil fuel generated electricity by WSB.
Because of high risk of war and human race not changing for any better very soon(10000y) small size fusion reactors are way the leaders will go. Small local fusion reactors simpily in terms of national security is the only correct solution.
This pipe dream never burns out. In ten years, if David is still around, no one will even remember this company other than as a foot note. Listen to speculation treated as fact. Even worse is describing all the wonderous possibilities of a fusion reactor even before you have one. Lots of natural processes generate fusion. None of which are commercial. All this talk excites investors, but non of this will turn on a light bulb. Just because you can imagine a world powered by fusion, does not mean it's a real possibility. Half a century of research by brilliant engineers and scientists and hundreds of billions spent have turned up nothing that remotely dovetails with the statements in this videos.
You’re not getting energy from nowhere. You are getting it from the lost mass, as the outputs are lighter than the inputs. E=MC^2, thermodynamics isn’t violated
As a model Y owner I think ICE cars don't make sense. The idea of going to a gas station and paying $50 per week more than the cost of electricity, Is it true you have to take an ICE car and have the oil changes twice a year and pay another $50 Is it true you have to get your brakes changed every 30,000 miles? Is it true that the fuel you put in your car is one of the main causes of war that over the last 100 years and those wars have killed hundreds of thousands of people? is it true that millions of barrels of oil have been spilled into the ocean?
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 chose 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.
He said things like "we're generating electricity" I would have like to know what kind of Q values they're getting. And what's the ratio of input electricity to output electricity?
The machine they let you see... Well, that has no power generation tech in it. That machine is just way too small. Their 7th prototype is allegedly 25% bigger, but I heard they're running into thermal neutron issues, which is actually not good at all, because that's going to make all their equipment into radioactive isotopes
They were at 0.95 a year ago.
@@kayakMike1000 The D-D reaction could generate neutron, and as long as they use D-3He as the fuel, they could not avoid the side reactions. What's more, more frequent pulse will generate more heat and ultimately make their current design a problem. I heard they also proposed to cool the who thing with water and that will increase their overall efficiency. But my feeling is that fission is simple to take the boiling water strategy, but look at the fusion design, it is too complicated and too delicate to have the boiling water design. If they can use 3He-3He reaction, they can avoid the problem of neutrons, but they will have lower output and should need higher temperature to make it work.
Amazing interview, love to see people like David working so efficiently and enthusiastically towards great future of humanity. Thank you Age of Miracles for providing us with this great converstation!
Further to my point about D-D reactions giving tritium as well as helium3, one must then expect the easier reaction between deuterium and tritium to take place. This will give 14 MeV neutrons and will add some nasty complications to the system.
D-D reactions occur at a lower energy input than D-He3 and emit high energy neutrons that must be shielded against to protect equipment and humans in the vicinity.
Both D-D and D-He3 reactions will be produced in the method described here, however the neutron energy is ignored .
What is to be done about this wasted energy, excess heat, required shielding, and what that shielding does to the overall efficiency and viability of the system?
They need to show a plan for handling the neutron problem, neutrons can not be manipulated with electric or magnetic force.
What types of machine degradation are envisaged and over what time scale could events happen?
There’s going to be tons of heat as a byproduct. Will there be any heat capture?
Don't you mean that most of the energy is released an high energy neutrons?
Actually much of the energy does come from neutrons andi sexpressed as heat and damaging radiation .
This is not acknowledged by this company.
isn,t the heat used for energy creation , so that there is no waste or byproduct , ?
What is 50 MW? Is it consumes or generates , electricity or heat?
How will it compete with solar+batteries at $/KwH?
Solar power is a non-solution. The panels get cracked or broke or clouded and they stop working well. Clearing habitat to build large solar farms is eco-lun@cy.
The only location it makes any sense to put up panels is locations with a lot of sun on the roofs of existing structures where there is limited damaging weather.
Wind-power is an ecological catastrophe. The blade-assemblies wear out in less than a decade and if we generated base-load with wind we would generate more h2zardous w@ste every year (fiber-glass c@uses c@ncer like @sbestos) than the current global total waste production. It's so much waste the only thing we could do with it all is burn it.
It is important to note how over-blown CO2 is but we can't emit it for forever so the only options are fission or fusion..
For 5 years the Eirex Technology in Canada has discovered the powerful forces of cavitation and any type of water or contaminated waste plastic is ideal besides oil with poor utility.
Cavitation can break the water molecules without energy intensive electrolysis of water. Any type of salt, polluted or pond water can be utilized to produce the lowest cost hydrogen gaseous fuel is what Eirex Tech in Canada has discovered.
The correct question is can mankind survive climate change with any quality of living without nuclear energy (fission & fusion) in a timely fashion. The answer is NO! We will never get close to where we need to go in the time frame we have to get there, without nuclear (fission & fusion). The solar+batteries at $/KwH is an inadequate analytic framework of the climate change challenge. The clock is ticking and the S is hitting the fan at an accelerating rate. Mankind must have a balls to the wall nuclear build out, with urgency.
You fission lobby victims are such programmed half wits.
Most people just don't grasp how much energy we are talking about.
Well, those human pests seemed to do very well during the Roman Climate Optimum and Medieval Warm period. During that time, there was a longer growing season and with warmth, the air carried more water in the planetary hydrological cycle. Much of that planet surface is also covered in water that contained significant amounts of dissolved CO2 that was also able to escape the natural warmed oceans. This caused a slight bump in atmospheric CO2 that aided humans with their primitive agriculture technologies.
So... Historically, humans will probably thrive on a warmer earth. The are, after all, a tropical primate species that has adapted well to colder climates, but often return to tropical regions in their older ages
@@kayakMike1000 Fallacious argumentation based on an inapplicable comparison. Either your intent, or you are ignorant of the fact. Look deeper at the many differences in the situations.
If you review the real math we have hundreds of years to make the transition but it's going to happen this century. Waste-stream is our biggest environment issue.
His D-D reaction to give He3 also produces tritium. I have not seen this discussed but dealing with the tritium might not be easy. It is fairly nasty from the radiological point of view and I gather not easy to handle - none must be allowed to escape.
I believe it's the weakest beta emitter of all with a short biological residence, it's only a public relations risk
@@CanucklugNuclear regulators take tritium fairly seriously and they are more concerned with safety rather than public opinion.
Julia's top looks like a CRT image with a noisy horizontal drive.
I still think there is more study to be done with bifilar transformers containing magnets to find the correct resonant frequency for more power out then power in. I have seen it on a scope that extracting power from magnets is possible Pacific frequencies and coil arrangements in transformers
If anyone shows you something that has more power out than power in, it's fake.
Save Our Planet Now!
Some questions:
A) what is the cost per mwhr of the fuel, esp tritium/helium 3?
B) tritium, very similar, is naturally produced in Canada's heavy water fission reactors. Is that the plan initially?
The real cost would be the cost of deuterium, since Helion plans to breed their helium 3 from it, and tritium can also be bred from deuterium - deuterium fusion reactions. So basically their only real feul source is deuterium, which is readily abundant in see water (it makes up a third of it).
@justiceifeme Definitely not 1/3 of natural water, only 1/6,400 th . Still considered common and low cost.
I really hope they can get this to work, but I doubt they ever will.
I REALLY hope
that HELION, can get their FUSION generator
to WORK !!!
omg again with this scam....... YOU'RE HARMING THE REST OF THE FUSION COMMUNITY DAVID I HOPE YOU'RE READING THIS
CO2 is plant food, the plants grew and were geologically made into carbon fuels.
light weight waffle
Hi voltage power lines to transfer the electrons around the country or better yet the world from wind/solar/battery(WSB) sources is a far more likely to happen scenario than fusion. fusion is still a process that needs major breakthroughs in the future and it may or may never happen. Hi voltage transmission combined with WSB can be implemented now now breakthroughs required for baseline energy needs. Local solar/battery at individual homes and larger scale community WSB projects can replace the Peaker demand now supplied by fossil burning plants.
If fusion is ever a viable source of electricity and if fusion can compete with the ever decreasing total cost of energy that WSB we can add that to the grid sources, one of the main reasons that the fusion industry is being bankrolled is so that the fossil fuel industry can continue to slow the replacement of fossil fuel generated electricity by WSB.
Because of high risk of war and human race not changing for any better very soon(10000y) small size fusion reactors are way the leaders will go. Small local fusion reactors simpily in terms of national security is the only correct solution.
Much easier and cheaper to scale up the joule thief demonstrated by steven jones.
I don’t believe anyone in this video has ever built anything.
Scam. They intend to produce tritium commercially and it will consume power, not make it.
This pipe dream never burns out. In ten years, if David is still around, no one will even remember this company other than as a foot note.
Listen to speculation treated as fact. Even worse is describing all the wonderous possibilities of a fusion reactor even before you have one. Lots of natural processes generate fusion. None of which are commercial. All this talk excites investors, but non of this will turn on a light bulb. Just because you can imagine a world powered by fusion, does not mean it's a real possibility. Half a century of research by brilliant engineers and scientists and hundreds of billions spent have turned up nothing that remotely dovetails with the statements in this videos.
What generating electricity directly takes is violating the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. It won't work. :-)
You’re not getting energy from nowhere. You are getting it from the lost mass, as the outputs are lighter than the inputs. E=MC^2, thermodynamics isn’t violated
Scam. Look at the equation - now look for neutron shields around. This thing is one big scam.
Earth will be almost carbon neautral come 2035, hopefully fusion is cheaper than Solar some day
Earth will be using more fossil fuels in 2035 than it does today.
Fossil fuels: LOL. Get a more appropriate name. Plants grow with carbon. LOL.
This guys either a liar or delusional
Fusion in 2053. MAYBE
The first Helion power-producing reactor will built by 2028.
@@shannonbarber6161 I hope so. Best wishes
There's nothing that fusion promises for some magical future that fission can't provide today.
I must disagree, EV's still don't make sense.
And why do you think that? Because that statement doesn't make sense
As a model Y owner I think ICE cars don't make sense.
The idea of going to a gas station and paying $50 per week more than the cost of electricity,
Is it true you have to take an ICE car and have the oil changes twice a year and pay another $50
Is it true you have to get your brakes changed every 30,000 miles?
Is it true that the fuel you put in your car is one of the main causes of war that over the last 100 years and those wars have killed hundreds of thousands of people?
is it true that millions of barrels of oil have been spilled into the ocean?
What a load of horseshit.