A scientific ‘breakthrough’ in nuclear fusion is announced



The Department of Energy announced a major step toward developing a new, sustainable form of zero-carbon energy. WATCH THE FULL EPISODES OF WORLD NEWS TONIGHT: https://abc.com/shows/world-news-tonight WATCH THE WORLD NEWS TONIGHT ON HULU: https://bit.ly/3iQLwPp #worldnewstight #abcnews #science #technology #nuclearfusion

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30 comments

  1. If this really works than f*** climate change. With unlimited energy we could literaly heat or cool the earth as we please.

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  3. If this works its a gigantic milestone.
    Iter is just a project, but if this is true then within 15-30 years we will save the climate.. and most of all russia will be fucked and could fockus on better things.

  4. I predict…sometime in the future that FORD will bring back their FUSION car model utilizing this technology.

  5. THESE EGGHEADS ARE GOING TO BLOW US ALL UP!!!

  6. This announcement seems to be remarkably over-hyped. The experiment actually consumes over 300 mega joules of energy to produce 3.5 mega joules of power if you don't include energy accounting trick that skips the real power input requirements to fire the laser. AND the laser damages itself each time it fire. More appropriate headline would be "Evil Nuclear Weapons Lab produces fusion reaction that uses an order of magnitude more energy than it produces and blows up their lasers in the process". Why exactly this huge promotion is being undertaken by the LLL and US government is unclear. The technique used is considered by most to be impractical and is not the 'future' of fusion, but a technical breakthrough in a purely statistical sense, demonstrating something that was already theoretically a well established fact (fusion is real and it can produce a lot of energy from hydrogen isotopes when they fused, which happens naturally within the cores of stars due to the immense pressures and temperatures that exist therein).

    The real breakthrough is still more than 20 years away, when someone can demonstrate that a fusion reaction generates more energy than the TOTAL amount of energy in (with no energy accounting tricks, and at costs and via methods with some practical possibility of being commercialized).

  7. This is a completely fraudulent and overblown “breakthrough”. Just another money grab for something that will never produce grid energy.

  8. Don't put that on the ocean

  9. The real question is governments are asking…How can we weaponize this??😟

  10. This is significant but everyone should know the only knee thing here is that it produced more energy than what was put into it. That’s it fusion has been around for decades we’ve had hydrogen bombs and doing this in labs for decades

  11. I am going to laugh my absolute ass off when this becomes mainstream and the climate keeps warming bc it’s actually a result of the earths changing relationship to the sun rather than human interference which btw has been the case throughout earths history. 😂

  12. Holy Grail is when they actually get the machine running for long enough periods of time to get any work done. So in the meantime, it’s still in its infancy.

  13. Tesla would be, oh yeah, i gave you a solution for the unlimited energy a hundred years ago

  14. And yet when they can't quite get it to work it will get reported as somehow Trumps fault. Imagine that.

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  17. A total scam! Okay?! Stupid.
    Nuclear fusion? Do you know how much temperature is the nuclear fusion? Do you have a container for it?! How long to hold it? There is no such container yet, not in earth. Bookworms go back to your books 👽🤡🤣😂😎
    Okay, you have to find a good way how to hold the nuclear fusion in the air!that's why it costs so much energy, and you hope, for return, it gives back energy more than you spend on its processing. Decades to go? Maybe will never success….

  18. Ahh the key word was just spoken at the end, "Commercial" its all about the money and control and nothing about saving the planet. What a Fu*king Con. GL.

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  21. Could this power our grids across the US? You scum, this could create power across earth. But of course, gotta have capitalism, gotta sell that infinite energy

  22. To ABC News: Thumbs down because if I have to watch George at the end of every video, I'll just block ABC News altogether. Why would ABC do this and promote him like this? Not saying that he's bad or anything but there is NO need to put this trailer on every ABC news video. It's actually pathetic. I really hope that you guys read and understand this.

  23. Nobody is talking on air on the real elephant in the room. Whatever greedy capitalists pigs will make this a monthly paid subscription model or not.

  24. The beginning of the end…nice glad to see the making of the end

  25. But what are the numbers? They didn’t tell anything with evidence