Scientists are expected to announce today that they have finally achieved a “net” energy gain inside a nuclear fusion reactor. ABC News’ Lionel Moise has more.
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Scientists are expected to announce today that they have finally achieved a “net” energy gain inside a nuclear fusion reactor. ABC News’ Lionel Moise has more.
Original source (ABC/Youtube)
Greenhouse emissions? That scary white cloud that comes out of those "big smoke stacks" on fission plants is literally just water. Clean water that has never touched the inside of a reactor.
Fusion also generates nuclear waste, by the way. Fusion reactions release A LOT of neutrons. Those neutrons make the reactor components radioactive. Furthermore, we are actually able to recycle spent nuclear fuel rods from fission reactors.
There are a lot of reasons why fusion can become a far better energy source than fission. But let's not pretend that fission is an ecological disaster(when it is currently the cleanest and safest energy source we have), and fusion is without consequence.
I can see the next mission impossible movie 🍿
This fusion nuclear energy is very dangerous. It more deadliest than any nuclear weapon ever existed. If one day exploded then whole States will wipe out in the face of the earth
So am I the only one here who has seen the second Spider-Man
This is very impressive the "minor" tidbit they keep leaving out from these newscasts, is that it took 500MJs to power the LASERS to create the fusion reaction. So, although the fusion reaction required 1.5MJ and we got 3MJ out they keep forgetting the 500MJ needed to power the LASERs.
At 0:43 he made a mistake, helium weighs more than hydrogen. Helium gas 2 protons whereas hydrogen has 1 proton.
But they are risked of blowing up
The difference needs to be stressed over and over. People do not know that fusion energy reactors can’t melt down like nuclear.
And it will disappear why because greedy rich will never want this
Ugh, so many errors and so much missing information here. It's not a first step. Maybe a milestone, but even then not a first.
They out powered the lasers, not the whole system. So, they still can't produce more power than the entire system consumes. Also, the power they created is heat and radiation, which by themselves cannot power machines. This means the power will be even less when converted to electricity.
Also, the process is highly dependent on fusion and cannot exist without it, as Tritium, a vital fuel component of the process is extremely rare, the only natural process that creates it really, being cosmic rays that slam into the atmosphere. Also, if a fusion reactor was up and running and capable to taking on a chunk of normal power demand, it would consume the entire Earth's supply of Tritium in a matter of months.
The only real way to make the stuff is to harvest it from fision reactors or the using fision to destroy larger atoms like Lithium to make smaller atoms, one of which can be Tritium. Doesn't work so well if you destroy Litium though, a high demand element used in batteries, a vital component of fighting climate change. Plus, nothing can be that good if it destroys elements when all we get is all that Earth has to give.
Adding to the fun that is fision, they were also wrong about it being clean in another way. The process shoots off Nuetrons as a byproduct, which will smash atoms anyways, which can create radioactive byproducts.
I would love for fusion to work, really I would. These high over optimistic announcements are just to try and get investors for these companies. The tech is still facing mountainous challenges ahead. Look into the details before investing and don't believe that this will help anytime soon with respects to climate change.
Good lord, did they just day Helium weighs less than Hydrogen? I know he's a tv reporter and all, but it's basic high school stuff that Hydrogen has half the parts Helium has, so it obviously weighs much less. The closest they ever get is when comparing Tritium (Hydrogen with two Neutrons) and Helium-3 (Helium with only one Neutron). In that case, they are nearly the same weight.
Always asking for 30 more years even after claiming that they got the reactor working😑
This is so cool.
It is always safe until it is not.
NETFLIX WILL MAKE A MOVIE ABOUT THIS AND ALL THE SCIENTIST WILL BE AFRICAN.
Holy moly
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0:42 – Lionel Moise needs to go back to school for an actual education. Helium does NOT weigh less than Hydrogen.
Great. Combine self running generators and power walls in homes and businesses for seemingly endless clean energy everywhere all the time. Have a mechanical direct connect to the axle of EVs and solar, to super charge them. No more plugging in. We have the tech to make our world and lives far better, vut we aren't using it!
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After the whole backrooms thing I don't trust scientists in California 🤣
Fake news
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The republicans better scramble to destroy this or this will take all their greedy little money ventures from destroying the planet for their greedy gain.