Building Green - Sun on Earth
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There are different ways of going about it. Three main competing paths are currently being explored :
-Tokamaks, which confine a hot plasma at a temperature of one hundred million degrees in a steady state within a magnetic field.
-Lasers, which are used like hammers to compress a target and make it explode.
-The Z-pinch machine, which attempts to light a nuclear fire by compressing a tiny pellet of gas through an intense X-ray pulse.
While the construction of Iter, the international super tokamak, is about to start in Southern France, teams are working flat out to solve physics and engineering problems. Let’s follow the team of the Tore Supra tokamak as they develop their machine and install new heating antennas.
At the Megajoule Laser, 240 giant lasers are being assembled. They will fire a target in a 30-feet diameter metal sphere. Everything must be immaculately clean as a speck of dust could burn and ruin extremely costly equipment.
In the Sandia laboratories, as the entire Z-machine has just been modernized to double its power, the team is already looking towards the future. In collaboration with Russia, revolutionary components are being tested.
Putting their rivalries aside, all these scientists share their knowledge of plasma, the fourth state of matter after its gaseous phase. Only when the secrets of plasma are mastered will the gates to fusion open. -
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コメント (21)
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I helped create a son on earth. I can’t get him to cut the grass let alone fusion energy.
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.. to sum it up: you presented 3 approaches, out of which only one is originally meant to have a hope of achieving a break-even, while ignoring the two most promising ones entirely... what a documentary on fusion power
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25 Years and he still goes home with passion thinking of ways to improve fusion. That is a life not wasted.
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Fission is still a viable option. The Nuclear power plants in US are on average 40 years old. Upgraded designs and exploring thorium as a fuel could go a long way.
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John has a type of insomnia that only fusion can tame. GO JOHN!!!
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All those men working to get that huge part into the hole. Incredible focus and dedication. That is a life not wasted.
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and we have created net energy gain in a Hydrogen fusion reaction. Let's do this !!!
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I read read other comments I saw some saying the Iter will be the one that will work, my bet is on the Z machine the reason I say so it's because of the less complicated way on how it operates. The unfortunate part is the long waiting period for this system to become functional, we have to wait until 2070 wow that's a long way, however good luck on the much dedication by our Scientist as for the Scientists who even fetched the equipment from the Airport that's pure love and dedication to his job Big up to him.
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Solar, wind, battery technology and molten salt thorium fission seems to me to be a pretty good combination. Continuous operating fusion is a long way off. Boiling water, steam turbines, mechanical generators seems kinda antiquated too. Conversation of gamma, x-rays, neutrons and thermal energy directly to electricity seems like a good idea too.
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The scientific community works in metric units not imperial.
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I'm thinking the hadron collider could be improvised to accommodate some of the requirements.?
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17 billion for the site - that’s good seeing as though the NHS Test and Trace covid app was double that amount!
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Whether will anyone ever make a movie about those people who designed and built equipment as this reactor? It would be amazing plot.
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Now you can sun-breathe indoors with your own man made sun. 🌞
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My money is on ITER. The Z machine is like trying to turn a generator by hitting the blades with a bolt action rifle
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We have like 10 crazy super computer's but yet they still arnt good enough, that's insane to think about
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This proves the sun distance is a fable, along with the CGI in this video about it.
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Are they in a sense trying to harness the power of nuke explosion and control the rate of witch the explosion releases its energy as well as sustaining the explosion for a very long period of time
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Hopefully a possibility in our lifetime For mother earth
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Stars are started in a weightless environment of compacted gas that gets warmed to high temperatures. Maybe we should try building a tiny structure in space to see if it would work without the Earth’s gravity interfering with the first fusions?
