introduction to NUCLEAR FUSION as a new source of energy 1/2

[kurtilein3]

cabbotron: our current understanding of the laws of the universe is based on TONS OF EXPERIMENTAL DATA. this understanding suggests that two positively charged particles need to collide at high velocity in order to fuse. this is consistent with all examples of nuclear fusion we know: the bomb, the sun and the stars, particle colliders, inertial confinement fusion, magnetic confinement fusion.

your comment is based on pure ignorance.

[kurtilein3]

``which is NOT caused by the heat--but is actually caused by the soft x-ray flux from a fission bomb t...´´

this is wrong. if you look at the design of thermonuclear weapons, it is clear that the X-rays do not come in contact with the fusion fuel, because the fusion-fuel is surrounded by a pusher-layer of metal, depleted uranium is often used for this, and it absorbs x-rays very well. according to your limited understanding, those bombs shoudnt explode. but our sun should explode instantly.

[kurtilein3]

cabbotron:

your comment about time-dilation and soft x-rays is pure nonsense. its stupidity. i know about general relativity and time dilation, your comment is nonsense because it is impossible to cause time dilation by electromagnetic radiation.

``soft x-rays´´ do not exist, this term is not used in science. x-rays do not cause fusion fuel to fuse, this claim is especially stupid because it is so easy to disprove.

[kurtilein3]

oh, you corrected it... unfortunately, its still wrong. i dont remember which ones, but if i remember correctly, two research experiments managed to produce more energy than is required to sustain the plasma for a short amount of time.

ITER, which will be started in 2011, will be able to produce 10 times more energy than is required to sustain the plasma.

[FIGHTFANNERD3]

we can do it already fool

[kurtilein3]

``magnetic confinement fusion has not produced one iota of nuclear fusion energy--EVER. ´´

this is wrong. many magnetic confinement fusion experiments have proven that it is possible.

[kurtilein3]

the operation of the sun is consistent with all scientific theories that are currently accepted as valid by scientists.

the operation of the sun is NOT ONLY consistent with nuclear fusion, but also with general relativity, qwantum mechanics, big bang theory, the laws of thermodynamics, and so on. we know a lot about our sun.

[ModPCLM]

maybe if you whipe that silly ass smile off your face and take those faggy looking headhpones off, maybe ill be able to take you seriously

[joshuaki3]

Hi,

I liked your video both part 1 and 2. I am studying nuclear fusion in graduate school, and I just made a video about magnetic fusion research and the need for increased government funding in the US. If you are interested you can find you can find it by just going to my channel. Right now it is the only video I have posted. I'm interested in what you think.

[kurtilein3]

i watched it, your video is great :)

[diogenesny]

fuck nuclear asshole. high productivity and zero risk get i?

[MatchstickHorrors]

Sorry what are you on about

[ModPCLM]

gay

[MatchstickHorrors]

O.o....

[0pteryx]

Science talk with heavy German accent is winrar.

[museken]

Everything is lighter in a vacuum

[kurtilein3]

i really dont understand your comments. i get the impression that you dont really know what you are talking about, because some of the things you say really dont make sense. of course you can accellerate stuff. and nothing is lighter in a vacuum, the mass stays the same, if you have air around it or vacuum doesnt matter. and vacuums on our planet in laboratory conditions are more clean than the areas around the sun.

[museken]

It does matter if you have air around it. Air causes friction. Friction just as an atom is small, that small amount of friction ,causes a great amount of difference. Matter Changes in a vacuum. Point, drop feather(matter) on earth it falls slower than the rock. Drop the feather(matter) in a vacuum they hit almost precisely at the same time. This is a massive difference Sir.Let me do the math in equation.

[museken]

Remember you said it, like the spider said to the fly......mass in a vacuum stays the same....so why can't you move at the speed of light....in space....because Einstein's Theory says as you go as fast as light, mass will increase, In your words, not in space ,(and mine). Mass will stay the same in a vacuum. That's why our explorers go 45'000 miles an hour to mars. No atmosphere all vacuum.

[kurtilein3]

you are simply wrong.

vacuum has nothing to do with it, the effects you talk about are called by the air. its called drag. it has nothing to do with the mass of the object.

and vacuums are normal in experimental physics. air quite often causes problems. no air, no problems. but you completely misinterpret and mix up the physics behind it. you can go 45000 miles per hour through air, its just that you get quite a lot of friction. air consists of molecules, particles.

[museken]

Drag has everything to do with an object, are you kidding me. I'm 2 seconds of calling you a quack. Your a know-er of all, a master of none. Friction caused by air of molecules of mass and particles=resistance. If the mass of the object was't there there would be no drag There is no drag in a vacuum there is no air . BYE!

[WellArmed]

It's quite obvious you have no idea what you're talking about museken, the fact that an object is surrounded by air molecules has no effect whatsoever on its mass, i think you're confused as to what the definition of mass is. Also its not an objects mass that determines air resistance but its surface area, something with a mass of 1kg could have exponentially greater air resistance than something having a mass of 1000kg dependent on its surface area.

[MatchstickHorrors]

Ok, one theory is that matter is actually just a condensed form of energy. At the big bang, there was pure energy from that singularity that was before the big bang. This expanded and condensed to form sub atomic particles, and as the universe expanded the sub atomic became hydrogen ect.

Basically the amount of energy needed to travel at light speed = that needed to form matter and thus produces mass, and that prevents us from traveling faster as we need more energy to travel faster.

Bleh :P

[museken]

Fusion no question is the answer to all. Your experiments may not work here on earth because of resistance with the atmosphere. Do it in a vacuum the same environment of the sun. The box is a vacuum. Your accelerating in this experiment. You can't accelerate.

[Andy123321999]

nuclear fusion is a conspiracy theory.

[kurtilein3]

you are an idiot.

[mdma4life]

Tell that to our sun, i'm sure it would beg to differ

[cabbotron]

The Sun would have to agree with Andy. The fusion in The Sun only occurs at it's core. At the surface...it simply *FISSION*

[kurtilein3]

fission?

what kind of fissionable material is present in sufficient quantities at the surface of the sun, and whats your evidence for that?

[levitikuz5]

/watch?v=vDAZsPkTkMM paste that to the end of the reg. youtube adress

watch this video and it will explain how they are building it and actually the first design and "workable" model was built in Moscow Russia in the 1960s called the Tokamak and that is the same design we are going to use...they explain how it wont hit the walls how to get the light atoms to come together and that the tempurture got on to 100 Million degrees F. Hope this answers alot of your guys questions.

[kurtilein3]

thanks for linking the video, but of course i already know it, i watched it months ago ;)

[cabbotron]

That video is no better than the rest of them. Pure speculative nonsense.

[kurtilein3]

we did it we did it

we have the evidence

we can do it again

fuck off

JET produced net energy

[PowerxGlove]

I AM VIGO!!

[timmunozlasvegas]

You say that it's harder to fuse light weight atoms together, right? Well, I have an answer. Use super glue. I swear, that stuff works every time. Also, if we can make a nuclear fusion machine, then it will last for millions of years, right? I can solve that too. All you need to do is put a can of soda in the microwave on high for about three minutes, and trust me, that thing will be red hot. Also, about the plasma hitting the walls, all you do is spray the walls with WD40. It will work.

[kurtilein3]

timmunozlasvegas:

you seem to be proud of your ignorance. get informed, do your research, read some books about science. start out with: Bill Bryson - ``a short history of nearly everything´´ for a short introduction to all natural sciences.

[timmunozlasvegas]

You do realize I was joking, right? It's called simplistic humor. It's mean to praise your knowledge with simple-simpleton replies. Also, I know that the translation of term is different from culture, and country, but when you call someone or claim them to be or have "ignorance", well, that an insult. I'll chalk this up to language difference. I'll know in the future to never joke with a intellect; seems to fall on deaf-ears.

[kurtilein3]

timmunolasvegas: i didnt want to insult you.

this kind of humour is difficult on youtube, even if you want to make a video-parody of a creationist using the most ridiculous arguments against evolution, people wont get it unless they already know you. they will think that you are just another creationist.

for me, ignorance is when you dont know something. its not meant as an insult. many people choose this word when they admit that they dont have knowledge about something.

[ModPCLM]

stop talking about it and do it then jesus christ

[kurtilein3]

thanks for calling me the son of god ;)

scientists are working hard on it, and they make a lot of progress. take a look at the information in the description-box ;)

[cabbotron]

'scientists' are working on their own egoic theories that will fatten their pocket books.

[SAMLAD2k6]

cut  ur hair

[TheGreatestGreatApe]

Way too long from now :( .

[popebenadict16]

ya very good but lets try somthing positive, like putting food in peoples mouthes first

[kurtilein3]

???

this might provide energy for humankind for at least 10000 years, even if our demands for energy might rise, and unlimited energy makes it much easier to feed the masses.

do you want us to stop progressing? do you think that all the problems we have today can be solved without advancing our technology? i think we need to improve in order to be able to solve our problems ^^ i think you are a bit idealistic ;)

[warszawa45]

Idiot , think about it.

[baley7]

to produce food you need energy you know! If we didn't had energy there would be food shortage as agriculture in industrialized countries uses machines and plant food to increase productivity

[phenixwryter]

Your video is awesome.

So is the one you linked. : )

On to Part 2!

[Saukko31]

I small detail, 100 million degrees is a lot hotter than the temperature in the core of the sun (about 15 million degrees), not just surface temperature.

Yeah, it is very promising, but we have to wait to 2050 at least...

[cabbotron]

It matters not what length of time proceeds if currently accepted theories about the interactive nature of subatomic particles continues it's current path.

[kurtilein3]

do you really doubt that nuclear fusion is the source of energy stars use, and can be tapped on our planet as well, or is this a big misunderstanding between us two and the point you want to make is a different one?

[lapislazuline]

i think it,s a pipe dream it,d probably use more energy than it would produce just to keep the containment torus from being compromised and anyway we,ve got a perfectly good fusion reactor right on our doorstep

[kurtilein3]

ITER will already produce about 10 times more energy than required to heat it up. and k-star is already in experimental use. wendelstein 7-x is under construction, it will have a reaction going for several hours.

30-60 years is a reasonable timeframe, the scientists already have timetables up to the working reactor. we will get the answer during the next few years, when iter and wendelstein 7-x are providing results.

[lapislazuline]

well that,s all well and good but if we put a bit more effort into improving solar panel technology we wouldn,t have to worry about all that,Kurt.

[kurtilein3]

solar energy and organic fuel and tidal energy and all that stuff is important right now, because it helps to reduce usage of fossil fuels. we have the global warming problem now, and we need to bridge those 30-60 years until we get nuclear fusion going ^^

and... cmon, were not investing much in nuclear fusion. solar energy has more money for research anyway. and military research gets more public funding than all scientific research combined.

[lapislazuline]

Well i must say i admire your confidence in the nuclear fusion caper,but i think in sixty years from now the scientists will still be scratching their heads.Have you got any views on cold fusion?

[kurtilein3]

cold fusion should be considered impossible.

i think cold fusion is most oftenly cited and discussed in pseudoscience. i dont know much about it, but its quite clear that the experts in the fields of physics and plasmaphysics and nuclear physics dont seem to be interested in it.

[lapislazuline]

so no star in a jar then?

[kurtilein3]

stars use hot nuclear fusion anyway. and im talking about hot nuclear fusion in the video. (also called nuclear fusion, without the hot, because... cold fusion doesnt count anyway)

so, well, we will probarbly get our star in the jar. but it will be at a higher temperature than our sun, quite the opposite of cold fusion. how much would 100 million degrees celsius be in fahrenheit? ^^

cold fusions is nothing more but the hypothesis that you can somehow cheat and do it without heat.

[lapislazuline]

i dunno,about 212,000,000 F

[cabbotron]

Nuclear fusion has always been "30-60 years" away...and will continue to be so, ad infinitum.

[kurtilein3]

i will make a note to come back to you when the ITER experiment goes online.

[DeletedDelusion]

Wow, this is an even more impressive project then the LHC at CERN.

[kurtilein3]

well, the LHC will expand our knowledge about the structure of our universe, while ITER will expand our knowledge only in one very specific but very important field of plasmaphysics ^^

if you could visit only one of those experiments, it would be very difficult to choose, but i would go for the LHC and the atlas experiment. or perhaps the wendelstein 7-X in germany, a different type of fusion experiment, its the channel background on my channel.

[DeletedDelusion]

True, all these experiments are unique and very interesting. It would be hard to choose if I would get the possibility to visit one of them.

The interesting thing about ITER is that it could become part of a solution for our energy problems. The practical solutions we could get from the LHC aren´t that apparent yet, at least to me.

[kurtilein3]

well, i think its a very interesting time right now. atheism is spreading, the brights movement is spreading, and many high-profile scientific experiments/megaprojects are in progress. the new space telescope would also be interesting. and then there is the progress in communication technology like youtube ^^

[Brainmold]

I love this stuff.

[vegrin]

Go Fusion! You know... a Sci fi author once predicted that when we have effective fusion reactors producing energy, energy will be so abundant that we would heat up the athmosphere, not by trapping solar radiation, but by spill heat from our powergrids...

[kurtilein3]

its really hard to imagine what would happen to our economy if the prices for energy drop and the amount of available energy rises.

``spill heat´´ wouldnt be a problem, if we would stop polluting our atmosphere with CO². excess energy would simply radiate off. CO2 keeps that energy from radiating away, traps it in the atmosphere, causing global warming.

[dorbie]

"Spill heat?" What do you thnk happens to the energy we do use? Ya think it just goes away? No, almost all energy used on Earth is converted to heat and a little bit of light, even the noise ends up as heat. The only stuff that isn't converted to heat is converted to chemical energy in products but even that can eventually be released in fires and the raw materials had their own chemical energy which may have been greater. Don't believe me? Feel your computer or the back outside of your fridge.

[kurtilein3]

have you ever noticed that at night, when you can see thew stars, it gets colder?

this is because of heat radiation. it is a type of electromagnetic radiation, long wavelength, travels at the speed of light. and CO² has the bad habit of reflecting it, more CO2 in our atmosphere keeps more heat on our planet, and our planet gets hotter.

[dorbie]

Yes it's called the greenhouse effect. My point is that it's not just spill heat from the grid that would be a heat source, almost ALL energy consumed on the planet ends up as heat unless it's bound as chemical energy, such as plastic making and even then there's so much waste heat in doing that it's only an accounting accuracy issue.

[kurtilein3]

yes, you are absolutely correct, i think i misunderstood your comment a little bit.

[near2earth]

I'm glad you're talking rationally about the future of nuclear energy. VERY glad I finally subscribed.

[Klarkster]

You now that talking about particle physics with your accent, makes you very engaging. haah :)

I say bring it on, a decent efficient energy source would ultimately have a good impact on humankind.