The next phase of the National Ignition Campaign (NIC), a series of experiments and simulations to prepare NIF for fusion ignition tests in the coming months, began last fall. Shortly after the dedication of the NIF facility in May of 2009, NIC began conducting test shots to fine-tune the performance of NIF's lasers, calibrate its diagnostic equipment, and verify the sophisticated computer simulations that help to guide the design of NIF's fusion targets.
A world record for neutron yield was set by the National Ignition Campaign on Oct. 31, 2010, when 121 kilojoules of ultraviolet laser light was fired into a glass calibration target like this one filled with deuterium and tritium (DT) gas.
@swack22 amplifying joules and concentrating them on one TINY spot to make more energy. amplifying joules takes a lot of energy to do. But using it to make fusion, and actually succeeding in that, makes the motion machine you're speaking of possible. Because to my knowledge, fusion makes a LOT more energy than what is required to amplify and concentrate joules. Which then means this could be done endlessly, producing all the energy needed for anything including the motion machine
when the lasers hit the hydrogen and the temperature and pressure is increased to similar to that of the suns core, how is it possible for this pressure to be contained? the whole facility will explode and will probably cause an earthquake or somthing
@mrmurphymil Well ofc, all that energy has to go somewhere and I believe they do recycle energy that is left over or generated. Putting all the energy of all the United States power plants into one tiny space would be pretty stupid without some type of collection system.
This project is absolutely stupid!!! It is not more than an explosion! I know thier intentions... that project is only for weapons technology. Fusion bombs, like hydrogen bombs.
We have been making fusion bombs for years. We already know how to use it for weapons.
Trying to use fusion as a power source is what's the issue. Nuclear energy that we use now, fission, is also "not more than an explosion", its just controlled. The same way that they are controlling this.
@rbender49 umm... you must be a little ahead of your time. You're talking about fusion bombs, and we can't even make fusion in containment and a controlled environment. Fission bombs are what we have been using, that's what the atomic reaction is all about,
This project is absolutely stupid!!! It is not more than an explosion! I know thier intentions... that project is only for weapons technology. Fusion bobs, like hydrogen bombs.
my dad was one of the guys who worked on designing the structure. he took me to his office and showed me the plans and all that stuff on his computer. cool huh? haha
Now the ITER can not be a makerstars, because the his specialists know not how work the Sun with his principal components. In outside of incandescent solar mass exist: principal magnetic field(solar magnetospher with magnetic trap); secondary magnetic fields(made by whirl's tubes); radiations belt; the "butterfly" diagram(with solar spots position in the ends of the whirl's tubes, which pass through the solar mass); whirl's pressure; magnetic pressure by principal magnetic field
The conditions of thermonuclear controlled fusion: temperature, concentration, confinement and duration - can not obtained never in a tokamak installation, because the her incapacity of the magnetic trap, which can not dress and sourround whole the thermonuclear plasma. The plasma can not be restrained, can not be maintained and thus can not be heating. Till now 2011 - was confined not the plasma on the tokamak installations.
Through divertor it remove the impurities from the chamber of thermonuclear combustion and it consider the single zone where the plasma is leted free let touch the walls. Really is good? really is logical this construction? If will be not existed the solar magnetosphere with her magnetic trap as let dress complete the incandescent solar mass, then the our planet can burn and remain without water.
The Sun shows us how it prepare and how it produce the thermonuclear reaction, and the resonant generator of the Tesla show us how it can extract the electricity= the particles of the electrical ether, without to utilize the switchs of heat. The ethereal explanation of phenomenon is necessary because in outside of electricity= electrical ether, all ethereal substances are: the electrons, the inductive magnetic field, as and the electrical field.
The test for nuclear fusion realisation on Tokamak's installations and with LASER cannot bring anything new for the energetics' future. I bind the thermonuclear controlled reactor schedule by the Sun model , by the reactive electromagnetic motor schedule from Palenque stone's tombe.
This is all very exciting, but I don't see the practical application? Is creating a sustained fusion reaction the reason for it being built? Is this really worth the billions of dollars invested in its construction?
WHY SHOULD YOU DO THIS UR JUST KILLING THE EARTH U DONT HAVE TO DO THIS AND UR JUST WASTING SOME MONEY AND GOD WILL DECIDE GOD MADE THE EARTH FOR US WITH ONLY HIS WORD AND YOU JUST GONNA WASTE IT AND TO THE EARTH BEAUTIFUL YOUR NOT BEING SATISFIED THAT WHAT GOD GIVE US GOD GIVE YOU EVRYTHING GOD LOVE'S ALL OF US LOOK AT YOU U JUST WASTE A BILLION MONEY THERES ALOT OF PEOPLE THAT THEY DONT EAT AND THEY DYE BEACAUSE THEY DONT HAVE A MONEY AND SOME FOOD IF U DONT STOP DIS ALL OF US WILL DIE.
@MrCrackerwood hydrogen fusion bombs have been detonated before without ending the world as we know it, and if we actually achieved controlled fusion it would free up trillions of dollars for charity and forwarding of peaceful goal. SHUT UP, and do your research.
Um... if that thing ends up generating THAT much energy, "1000x the electrical generating power of every power plant in the united states," then why the FUCK are we still having an energy crisis! Can this not be converted from a laser beam to usable energy!?!? I'm just sayin. I don't know shit about this stuff but is that not plausible????
@karthius hm so you put energy in a laser to afterwards transform it in electrical energy again? physics dictates that you cant have more energy output than input. and by the way: the high energy output lasts only for a very small amount of time. so its not plausible.
@channel32 So If I take a match which has a small amount of energy and light a pound of gunpowder there isn't more engery released in the gunpowder than in the match? You argument doesn't make sense.
@damarul Umm has any hydrogen bomb ever converted the earth into a sun if your answer is no then there is no need to worry about this safe clean and practically unlimited source of energy
So it seems like they already build that laser didn't they? So why haven't they already tried putting it to work?
But anyways, it seems like they were able to amplify the laser power exponentially. Try it and if that's not enough, just amplify it more. Doesn't seem like there is a limit to how much you can amplify it.
MercenarySlick and flollowthefleet1 have good points, this isn't likely to work and even if this idea works it can have problems. At 7:35, this is a possibility of Earth if they get this wrong. With astronomical #s people can drastically underestimate how big the bang will be. Imagine a "mini sun". Would the factory survive? would we survive?
Great project but don't like the naration much as it doesn't really mention some real projects that are underconstruction and which are more likely to achieve better stuff that SLNIF
@BIoodyldiot it won't melt anything because it won't be sustained the ignition will last a fraction of a second. on the other hand on project that will really achieve nuclear fusion reaction inside nuclear reactor , to harvest the Plasma which is at about 100million°C scientist use electromagnetism to control the plasma flux .
Ok. So that thing will give off Billions of times more gravitational force then earth. Question. Would something that strong pretty much suck everything around it in? I honestly don't think a steel chamber will do much against a star. lol. I hope this idea was thought over thoroughly.
Gravity is caused by mass. The reason that stars have more gravity is not because they have fusion, it's because they have a lot of mass. Creating a miniature sun on the earth won't all of a sudden just create mass.
@MercenarySlick no. distance or size matter as well, actually the effect of distance is more important than the mass one. Even the simplest Newton equation says so or the Einstein Gravitational field equation....
@MercenarySlick ironically, the amount of mass being injected into things like magnetically confined reactors is minute. the NIF will produce a shit power station, it is good for testing the properties of fusion bombs. but, we're assured, that's not what it's there for. like Iran doesn't want that enrichment plant for nuclear weapons. :P
@DrMsIrKK nah, just a degree in molecular cell biology and I helped write the final paper for a physics student on crystallography, and another for a banker, who then got his highest marks for that paper. i also told the technicians running the molecular beam epitaxy units about things like lattice strain in superconductors and quantum hall sensors, which they didn't know about. what science do you have a PhD in? & what makes me have the brain of a bean? that may be more constructive
@Netkiller3714 don't mistake, we are talking about pressure here not gravitation.
Even on the LHC which is more likely to create micro black holes, these black holes won't last more than a fraction of a second and even supposely we give them the energy to sustain they won't be able to do much
@Computator1 3times is about the mass of a stellar black holes you would need a stars that can go hypernova a dozen of times heavier than the sun if not a hundrent
@Jah044445 No not every stars ends into a black hole, for that you need huge gravitational power, and that is only achieved on stars of at LEAST 10-20 times the mass of our sun, which actually will die as a white dwarf...
So micro sun just vanish once they run out of fuel and power to sustain them(gravity and internel heat sustain the sun , here is the laser beam)
@InitialDAmine Ok I see, I'm just in high school so I don't know too much about it. Thanks for answering nicely, I thought there would be people calling me stupid and stuff haha.
100.000.000 will bie in the very tiny little and the rate of energy will decrease by 1/r^2, so after several meters, you have much less energy.
sencond, heat is nothing else than elctromagenetic energy, which can be closed or sealed by huge magnetic fields
and third: a functional fusion reactor will be fired by continous burning material, which will cool down the the surroundings bevor they go off in the fusion. comparable to a rocket nozzle (e.g. Saturn V).
100.000.000 will bie in the very tiny little and the rate of energy will decrease by 1/r^2, so after several meters, you have much less energy.
sencond, heat is nothing else than elctromagenetic energy, which can be closed or sealed by huge magnetic fields
and third: a functional fusion reactor will be fired by continous burning material, which will cool down the the surroundings bevor they go off in the fusion. comparable to a rocket nozzle (e.g. Saturn V).
100.000.000 will bie in the very tiny little and the rate of energy will decrease by 1/r^2, so after several meters, you have much less energy.
sencond, heat is nothing else than elctromagenetic energy, which can be closed or sealed by huge magnetic fields
and third: a functional fusion reactor will be fired by continous burning material, which will cool down the the surroundings bevor they go off in the fusion. comparable to a rocket nozzle (e.g. Saturn V)
if they could miniature-ize this and install it on a spaceship or some sort of space travel thing, that would be awesome :D
seriously. the only problem i see with this is the way the energy would be harnessed and/or stored. all i see is a chamber where they shoot thousands of beams on to a small sized capsule. where's the harness part? :D
Note that the NIF is not designed as a powerplant prototype, but to test the radiation hardness of new materials and to imitate properties of nuclear bomb explosions.
well if it leaks i guess they will tell i mean gosh a football stadium size machine say a tiny peak size thingy does more for sure will be notable temperature will only be reached when the laser's all focus in the tiny chamber an as the video showed it got destroyed ( i think a mini super nova) so well its not like it was planned to resist the heat it will get destroyed( the hydrogen container not the machine).
The NIF will produce the world's first fusion igntion with lasers in 2 or 3 years. It seems this is close to happening. But for this to be realized a laser fusion power plant, science will need to achieve this 10 times a second. The NIF will do it once every three hours. So there is a road ahead to make the potential of virtually unlimited clean electric energy commercially feasible....as I understand it. It's clearly worth trying.
.Plasma energy breakeven has never been achieved: the current record for energy release is held by JET, which succeeded in generating 70% of input power. Scientists have now designed the next-step device - ITER - which will produce more power than it consumes: for 50 MW of input power, 500 MW of output power will be produced.
@nicksynnz ..Isn't the NIF expected to complete its break even experiment quite soon? And though the NIF can not actually produce sustainable fusion...as in a plant....what is your view on Laser Fusion vs. Containment Fusion...Laser vs. ITER? Is there yet any emerging consensus that one approach will be better / more practical than another?
@followthefleet1 I think the laser idea is a great initiator but the ITER containment is the only way to at the moment to sustain the reaction safely. We of course have created fusion aka thermonuclear bomb.
Again you guys are missing the Big ass ingredient and will dump all that energy into lasing the BB of H2 or Frozen Dueterium ....told you this long time ago but keep getting all that FIAT money from OBAMA. You will never get it
if the us built one of these in orbit, the Russians will steal the acs module and fire at the us. It will be like call of duty, but all the soldiers would be vaporized. :P
Btw black holes req aprox 9 times the sun size preventing the explosion from managing to throw away the stars matter, gravity making it collapsing back generating almost infinite gravty with minimum mass...acording to theory as it`s practically impossible to comprehend how we could ever get real measurements from beyond the event horizon (sry bout my crap english;)
Fusion power will be the key to clean energy, the question is when we`ll be able to develop and comercialize it...no waste products like with fision plants :D
LoL The comments about it going super nova, or becoming a black whole. Well that's literally impossible. Since a black whole simply put is super gravitational heavenly body. We all should no it takes something the size of a planet to produce gravity. This thing is no where near the size of a planet. About super nova. A star is really really really big. When something that big blows up. It's gonna cause a lot of damage. This thing is no were near the size of a star.
Right but gravity is almost none exist the more you scale down. Below heavenly bodies. You have gravity but it isn't a force to be reckoned with nor does it make a huge impact on the environment around you. My point...
I read somewhere that in northern India the Himalayas actually make a plumb line kick out a fraction of a degree, the gravity caused by the mass of the mountain range, not sure if its true but interesting.
My interest in gravity has been renewed thanks to the LHC. If it actually generates micro black wholes. It would mean that density makes a gravitational field more intense and mass makes it's range greater. If this is true it might actually be a way to produce artificial gravity without having a huge amount of mass. Just my speculation however.
And that would use a incredibly unbelievable amount of energy just to have a gravity we can recreate anyway with centrifugal force or constant acceleration in the case of a spaceship.
no that only happens to large stars that when run out of fuel no longer have the explosive force needed to stop itself collapsing in on itself and only if the star has enough mass does it become a black hole otherwise it would just become a white dwarf
a miniature star will be born? what happens when that star stops receiving energy to sustain fusion? has anybody ever heard of a black hole? we've gone too far...
i agree, we shouldnt be tampering with things we think we know but we really dont ,this will destroy the world, eather with a miniture colapsed black hole that will suck every thing in it , or a super nova explotion that will blow up the universe( over exageration) but this still isnt good, whats wrong with solar or wind power?
This is not a weapon, potentialy it's a very cheap form of energy that will open the universe to exploration and greatly increase the quality of life for everyone
Attempt to control another source of energy. Instead of spending the millions and billions to up the efficiency of solar cells, just spend 10 x that much on something else so that they can be the sole purveyor of that else. Solar is too free. Anyone can tap into it hence does not make a few individuals into a monopoly.
Cells average 15% efficiency when the records in labs but not produced hits 40%. Sounds like automotive suppression to you? Sounds so to me.
Talk about clean energy. Plus, it''s got great energy output, unlike solar or wind. If we could perfect fusion, the energy crisis would be a thing of the past.
Fusion isn't the "key" to our future, only a possible one. So far you use more power to create the reaction than you produce after excluding the heat energy as waste. the idea is cool, but the sun already gives us enough energy per day to power the world for a year! Start there, harness that, and move towards.
Solar energy essentially is fusion energy. The sun is just so powerful that it throws energy all the way here. We'll never be able to build a reactor even close to the sun. New solar panels are in the works that are smaller, lighter, and many times more effective at drawing in and storing energy. So really I'm saying we already have the best fusion reactor at work, it's just billions of miles away, ha ha.
Critics are dick heads. Fusion is the key to our future. Everything depends upon it's success, everything! No cost is to great! Keep the funding rolling, and the projects coming!
Fusion, the ticket to space for the human race. I'm happy that Ill be around to see mankind take such an enormous stride towards the future, but sad that I wont live to see the day they fit fusion reactors to space craft.
SHIVA NOVA This has been worked on since 1974... they are just going bigger Also they don't mention the weapons aspect
"When the United States ceased nuclear testing, laser facilities became even more important for defense research, and the portion of Nova shots dedicated to the weapons program increased considerably. Researchers using Nova continued obtaining high-energy-density data necessary to validate the computer codes used to model nuclear weapons physics." LLNL
Yeah I mean it was created as a weapon.. I mean the first reports on it mention it was made in a weapons lab. Fusion power is great although think of what they could do with this.
2 questions too think about, 1. what if we create something that cant bee put out and it melts this palce from inside out, and 2. how will this energy be controled?
I would imagine that you get more energy out of the system than you put in, in a similar way to how an implosion based Nuke works.
You get some material you want to effect on an atomic level, apply a comparatively weak force to it in a very specific way, and boom (pun intended), you have a Nuke, or a fusion reaction in this case.
Or not, I'm not a physicist. But that's the way I've come to understand how the thing works.
This machine is not a power plant, it is just an experiment. We will learn a lot about fusion and fission both from this experiment, so much so that other countries are concerned about it. The knowledge gained from this may allow us to one day build fusion reactors.
Using a 5mm Deuterium-Tritium fuel capsule, the reaction is anticipated to produce 10-20 time the amount of energy than that required to power the 192 lasers in 50 billionth of a second
We still don't have it :(
omg123596 1 month ago
To quote Stephen Colbert: "WE HAVE A DEATH STAR!!!"
wxyzabcd 1 month ago
the output of this laser complex is in petawatts about 1billion times the energy of nuclear plants...
jasonchuu 1 month ago
where is this thing now??
bencinurts 1 month ago
This thing looks like a "way too big" nuclear bomb!! DON'T TURN IT ON!!!!
bencinurts 1 month ago
The next phase of the National Ignition Campaign (NIC), a series of experiments and simulations to prepare NIF for fusion ignition tests in the coming months, began last fall. Shortly after the dedication of the NIF facility in May of 2009, NIC began conducting test shots to fine-tune the performance of NIF's lasers, calibrate its diagnostic equipment, and verify the sophisticated computer simulations that help to guide the design of NIF's fusion targets.
BobRoberts1492 1 month ago
A world record for neutron yield was set by the National Ignition Campaign on Oct. 31, 2010, when 121 kilojoules of ultraviolet laser light was fired into a glass calibration target like this one filled with deuterium and tritium (DT) gas.
BobRoberts1492 1 month ago
without carbon there wont be life in earth
shaerkhan82 2 months ago
"normal" nuclear weapons are fission bombs yes, Hydrogen bombs on the other hand are fusion bombs.
mammothmeat 3 months ago
I left my leanback for this
tehhawtstuff 3 months ago
but... they disproved E=mc2...
pugfugly1989 3 months ago
@pugfugly1989 is disproved even a word?
robby123ism 2 months ago
If your amplifying jewels, then is this not defying the said to be impossible perpetual motion machine?
swack22 4 months ago
@swack22 amplifying joules and concentrating them on one TINY spot to make more energy. amplifying joules takes a lot of energy to do. But using it to make fusion, and actually succeeding in that, makes the motion machine you're speaking of possible. Because to my knowledge, fusion makes a LOT more energy than what is required to amplify and concentrate joules. Which then means this could be done endlessly, producing all the energy needed for anything including the motion machine
gaswerti 3 months ago
I F*CKING LOVE SCIENCE!!
imafood1 4 months ago in playlist 2012 Doomsday 2
nif nif nif
xjacktaylorx 5 months ago
when the lasers hit the hydrogen and the temperature and pressure is increased to similar to that of the suns core, how is it possible for this pressure to be contained? the whole facility will explode and will probably cause an earthquake or somthing
mrmurphymil 6 months ago
@mrmurphymil Well ofc, all that energy has to go somewhere and I believe they do recycle energy that is left over or generated. Putting all the energy of all the United States power plants into one tiny space would be pretty stupid without some type of collection system.
zimtower 4 months ago
Nuclear tests,supercomputers,laboratory......METAL GEAR.
onewhopwns 6 months ago
i have a llaaaaaazzzooorrrr and its pointed at your planet! shaka laka! . . . boooooomm . . .
mikestand2020 7 months ago
This project is absolutely stupid!!! It is not more than an explosion! I know thier intentions... that project is only for weapons technology. Fusion bombs, like hydrogen bombs.
Chemoplasma 7 months ago
@Chemoplasma
We have been making fusion bombs for years. We already know how to use it for weapons.
Trying to use fusion as a power source is what's the issue. Nuclear energy that we use now, fission, is also "not more than an explosion", its just controlled. The same way that they are controlling this.
Check your facts and don't point fingers.
rbender49 5 months ago
@rbender49 We have been using fission bombs not fusion. fusion is joining atoms, fisson is splitting them "check your facts".
thehugh100 3 months ago
@rbender49 umm... you must be a little ahead of your time. You're talking about fusion bombs, and we can't even make fusion in containment and a controlled environment. Fission bombs are what we have been using, that's what the atomic reaction is all about,
gaswerti 3 months ago
This project is absolutely stupid!!! It is not more than an explosion! I know thier intentions... that project is only for weapons technology. Fusion bobs, like hydrogen bombs.
Chemoplasma 7 months ago
but will it blend??
jehmen 8 months ago 14
my favorite color is 9
killak2115 8 months ago
What could possibly go wrong
HeadSHOT604 8 months ago
i hope this type of energy will help us in the future and will make us free from the nuclear energy
marcobory95 9 months ago
@marcobory95 this is nuclear to but not the same
HeadSHOT604 8 months ago
Right, but under special conditions, it can produce radioactive radiation. But it is not as much as it produced by normal power stations.
Chemoplasma 7 months ago
my dad was one of the guys who worked on designing the structure. he took me to his office and showed me the plans and all that stuff on his computer. cool huh? haha
bikeiswhatido 9 months ago
Can we uses these lasers and concentrate them into one beam to destroy those pesky Mon Calamari Star Cruiser, or even a disrespectful planet?
jnthnbush 11 months ago 4
Spiderman 2 in real life
kirbyman1kanden7pf 11 months ago
SandustanBrasov
You see my project for thermonuclear controllabe reactor!
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Now the ITER can not be a makerstars, because the his specialists know not how work the Sun with his principal components. In outside of incandescent solar mass exist: principal magnetic field(solar magnetospher with magnetic trap); secondary magnetic fields(made by whirl's tubes); radiations belt; the "butterfly" diagram(with solar spots position in the ends of the whirl's tubes, which pass through the solar mass); whirl's pressure; magnetic pressure by principal magnetic field
sandustanBrasov 11 months ago
• SandustanBrasov
The conditions of thermonuclear controlled fusion: temperature, concentration, confinement and duration - can not obtained never in a tokamak installation, because the her incapacity of the magnetic trap, which can not dress and sourround whole the thermonuclear plasma. The plasma can not be restrained, can not be maintained and thus can not be heating. Till now 2011 - was confined not the plasma on the tokamak installations.
sandustanBrasov 11 months ago
• SandustanBrasov
Through divertor it remove the impurities from the chamber of thermonuclear combustion and it consider the single zone where the plasma is leted free let touch the walls. Really is good? really is logical this construction? If will be not existed the solar magnetosphere with her magnetic trap as let dress complete the incandescent solar mass, then the our planet can burn and remain without water.
sandustanBrasov 11 months ago
• SandustanBrasov
The Sun shows us how it prepare and how it produce the thermonuclear reaction, and the resonant generator of the Tesla show us how it can extract the electricity= the particles of the electrical ether, without to utilize the switchs of heat. The ethereal explanation of phenomenon is necessary because in outside of electricity= electrical ether, all ethereal substances are: the electrons, the inductive magnetic field, as and the electrical field.
sandustanBrasov 11 months ago
SandustanBrasov
The test for nuclear fusion realisation on Tokamak's installations and with LASER cannot bring anything new for the energetics' future. I bind the thermonuclear controlled reactor schedule by the Sun model , by the reactive electromagnetic motor schedule from Palenque stone's tombe.
sandustanBrasov 1 year ago
This is all very exciting, but I don't see the practical application? Is creating a sustained fusion reaction the reason for it being built? Is this really worth the billions of dollars invested in its construction?
tonebenderx 1 year ago
@tonebenderx
If it's leads to fusion reactors, then yes.
behinder 1 year ago
Imagine having a little sun you can carry around.
intheshitter 1 year ago
or you could create a subatomic nuke bomb and BLOW UP OUR COUNTRY!
RedCodeStudios 1 year ago
We'll still need fossil fuels for material shit that we make (plastics, etc), but this is definitely sweet -- I hope they succeed.
depletable 1 year ago
Total Cost of NIF - $3,000,000,000
Total Cost of Iraq War for OIL: $3,000,000,000,000+
Is there something wrong here?, manking needs this energy now!.
AwakenFromTheSlumber 1 year ago
@ilovebrasilful why you so irritate buddy? You dunno what I think... lol!
Retard!!
Be positive thinking buddy... grow up!!
caesaroctavianz 1 year ago
i got a Yuge burst of energy...
Rasengan020 1 year ago
This vid makes me wanna play civ v and invest in science lol
SilverGunZoO 1 year ago
I smell something behind it...
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WHY SHOULD YOU DO THIS UR JUST KILLING THE EARTH U DONT HAVE TO DO THIS AND UR JUST WASTING SOME MONEY AND GOD WILL DECIDE GOD MADE THE EARTH FOR US WITH ONLY HIS WORD AND YOU JUST GONNA WASTE IT AND TO THE EARTH BEAUTIFUL YOUR NOT BEING SATISFIED THAT WHAT GOD GIVE US GOD GIVE YOU EVRYTHING GOD LOVE'S ALL OF US LOOK AT YOU U JUST WASTE A BILLION MONEY THERES ALOT OF PEOPLE THAT THEY DONT EAT AND THEY DYE BEACAUSE THEY DONT HAVE A MONEY AND SOME FOOD IF U DONT STOP DIS ALL OF US WILL DIE.
MrCrackerwood 1 year ago
@MrCrackerwood Are you mentally challenged?
ridonkulous192 1 year ago 2
@MrCrackerwood hydrogen fusion bombs have been detonated before without ending the world as we know it, and if we actually achieved controlled fusion it would free up trillions of dollars for charity and forwarding of peaceful goal. SHUT UP, and do your research.
Murtage33e 1 year ago
@MrCrackerwood I'm 12 years old and what is this?
TehNetherlands 1 year ago
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karthius 1 year ago
Um... if that thing ends up generating THAT much energy, "1000x the electrical generating power of every power plant in the united states," then why the FUCK are we still having an energy crisis! Can this not be converted from a laser beam to usable energy!?!? I'm just sayin. I don't know shit about this stuff but is that not plausible????
karthius 1 year ago
@karthius hm so you put energy in a laser to afterwards transform it in electrical energy again? physics dictates that you cant have more energy output than input. and by the way: the high energy output lasts only for a very small amount of time. so its not plausible.
channel32 1 year ago
@channel32 So If I take a match which has a small amount of energy and light a pound of gunpowder there isn't more engery released in the gunpowder than in the match? You argument doesn't make sense.
ZXLNT 1 year ago
if they power up this laser, it can blind a man only by looking at the beam!!!
foibos899 1 year ago
the NIF is a fusion weapons program in disguise. you know the saying, best place to hide a pot of gold is on the doorstep
lexichronicle2 1 year ago
they could destroy the earth if this fails enough XD
kookie195 1 year ago
2010...?
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it will not work!
bankots8 1 year ago
I sure hope this doesn't turn Earth INTO a Sun...
damarul 1 year ago
@damarul Umm has any hydrogen bomb ever converted the earth into a sun if your answer is no then there is no need to worry about this safe clean and practically unlimited source of energy
Darkwizzrobe 1 year ago
So it seems like they already build that laser didn't they? So why haven't they already tried putting it to work?
But anyways, it seems like they were able to amplify the laser power exponentially. Try it and if that's not enough, just amplify it more. Doesn't seem like there is a limit to how much you can amplify it.
NaceLunk 1 year ago
what im trying to understand is where the energy is coming from taking conservation of energy into account
jacobi2393 1 year ago
I would really like to see our planet using nuclear fusion as an energy source in my generation.
L3M0Nlol 1 year ago
does this mean they can make new elements by fusing not hydrogen but ununquadium?? :L that would be cool
TizHancock 1 year ago
MercenarySlick and flollowthefleet1 have good points, this isn't likely to work and even if this idea works it can have problems. At 7:35, this is a possibility of Earth if they get this wrong. With astronomical #s people can drastically underestimate how big the bang will be. Imagine a "mini sun". Would the factory survive? would we survive?
easy236 1 year ago
where do they house the shark?
1nakey1 1 year ago 2
They should have let Bruce Banner talk, but he was probably busy...
chrischrisdaledale 1 year ago
I wonder what would happen if you could turn heat diretly into electricity?
meatisdeliciouse 1 year ago
Nuclear fusion goes off in the air
JonThm 1 year ago
Great project but don't like the naration much as it doesn't really mention some real projects that are underconstruction and which are more likely to achieve better stuff that SLNIF
InitialDAmine 1 year ago
it looks like spiderman2
pissar100 1 year ago
@pissar100 basically IS spiderman 2
gayglue 1 year ago
@gayglue lol JUST thinking that
damarul 1 year ago
how is the energy going to be harvested? wont the whole thing melt?
BIoodyldiot 1 year ago
@BIoodyldiot it won't melt anything because it won't be sustained the ignition will last a fraction of a second. on the other hand on project that will really achieve nuclear fusion reaction inside nuclear reactor , to harvest the Plasma which is at about 100million°C scientist use electromagnetism to control the plasma flux .
InitialDAmine 1 year ago
Ok. So that thing will give off Billions of times more gravitational force then earth. Question. Would something that strong pretty much suck everything around it in? I honestly don't think a steel chamber will do much against a star. lol. I hope this idea was thought over thoroughly.
Netkiller3714 1 year ago
@Netkiller3714 No.
Gravity is caused by mass. The reason that stars have more gravity is not because they have fusion, it's because they have a lot of mass. Creating a miniature sun on the earth won't all of a sudden just create mass.
MercenarySlick 1 year ago 30
@MercenarySlick no. distance or size matter as well, actually the effect of distance is more important than the mass one. Even the simplest Newton equation says so or the Einstein Gravitational field equation....
InitialDAmine 1 year ago
@MercenarySlick You are right in fact is should loose some mass in conversion to energy
Darkwizzrobe 1 year ago
@MercenarySlick ironically, the amount of mass being injected into things like magnetically confined reactors is minute. the NIF will produce a shit power station, it is good for testing the properties of fusion bombs. but, we're assured, that's not what it's there for. like Iran doesn't want that enrichment plant for nuclear weapons. :P
lexichronicle2 1 year ago
@lexichronicle2 your brain must have the size of a bean
DrMsIrKK 1 year ago
@DrMsIrKK still ten times the size of yours then.... molecule mind :P
lexichronicle2 1 year ago
@lexichronicle2 so u got a PhD in science as well ?
DrMsIrKK 1 year ago
@DrMsIrKK nah, just a degree in molecular cell biology and I helped write the final paper for a physics student on crystallography, and another for a banker, who then got his highest marks for that paper. i also told the technicians running the molecular beam epitaxy units about things like lattice strain in superconductors and quantum hall sensors, which they didn't know about. what science do you have a PhD in? & what makes me have the brain of a bean? that may be more constructive
lexichronicle2 1 year ago
@MercenarySlick more specifically mass warps space time and we perceive this distortion as gravity.
rexregum 1 year ago
@MercenarySlick Yay! Someone who isn't an idiot!!! I hope you're American Mercenary.
alexwilsonNC 1 year ago
@alexwilsonNC I am American.
MercenarySlick 1 year ago
@MercenarySlick or is mass caused by gravity?
jnthnbush 11 months ago
@jnthnbush That might be the case.
MercenarySlick 11 months ago
@Netkiller3714 You been terribly misinformed about physics if you believe that.
i7887 1 year ago
@Netkiller3714 I think you're confusing stars with black holes dude...
kaikou1098 1 year ago
@Netkiller3714 don't mistake, we are talking about pressure here not gravitation.
Even on the LHC which is more likely to create micro black holes, these black holes won't last more than a fraction of a second and even supposely we give them the energy to sustain they won't be able to do much
InitialDAmine 1 year ago
For a brief moment, they will create a miniature star. Will it really be a star or will it just look like a star?
Because, don't stars end in black holes?
Jah044445 1 year ago
@Jah044445 Stars don't always end in black holes. It's actually extremely rare.
smiledammit24 1 year ago
@Jah044445 Only stars that are about 3 times the mass of our sun so I don't think this qualifies
Computator1 1 year ago
@Computator1 3times is about the mass of a stellar black holes you would need a stars that can go hypernova a dozen of times heavier than the sun if not a hundrent
InitialDAmine 1 year ago
@Jah044445 No not every stars ends into a black hole, for that you need huge gravitational power, and that is only achieved on stars of at LEAST 10-20 times the mass of our sun, which actually will die as a white dwarf...
So micro sun just vanish once they run out of fuel and power to sustain them(gravity and internel heat sustain the sun , here is the laser beam)
InitialDAmine 1 year ago
@InitialDAmine Ok I see, I'm just in high school so I don't know too much about it. Thanks for answering nicely, I thought there would be people calling me stupid and stuff haha.
Jah044445 1 year ago
@Jah044445 you are welcome
InitialDAmine 1 year ago
lol, the first time they do it, they mysteriously create a black hole and eats the earth within seconds and no one ever knows what happens :P
a10fjet 1 year ago
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no, there is not, but:
100.000.000 will bie in the very tiny little and the rate of energy will decrease by 1/r^2, so after several meters, you have much less energy.
sencond, heat is nothing else than elctromagenetic energy, which can be closed or sealed by huge magnetic fields
and third: a functional fusion reactor will be fired by continous burning material, which will cool down the the surroundings bevor they go off in the fusion. comparable to a rocket nozzle (e.g. Saturn V).
wendysimmens 1 year ago
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no, there is not, but:
100.000.000 will bie in the very tiny little and the rate of energy will decrease by 1/r^2, so after several meters, you have much less energy.
sencond, heat is nothing else than elctromagenetic energy, which can be closed or sealed by huge magnetic fields
and third: a functional fusion reactor will be fired by continous burning material, which will cool down the the surroundings bevor they go off in the fusion. comparable to a rocket nozzle (e.g. Saturn V).
wendysimmens 1 year ago
no, there is not, but:
100.000.000 will bie in the very tiny little and the rate of energy will decrease by 1/r^2, so after several meters, you have much less energy.
sencond, heat is nothing else than elctromagenetic energy, which can be closed or sealed by huge magnetic fields
and third: a functional fusion reactor will be fired by continous burning material, which will cool down the the surroundings bevor they go off in the fusion. comparable to a rocket nozzle (e.g. Saturn V)
wendysimmens 1 year ago
any scientists watching this channel, come over to my channel and help converse more between different disciplines
TheSciTalk 1 year ago
Well these scientists seem to be getting too smart for their own good.
Guess we'll have to kill them off....
lucaschallenger 1 year ago
Locally. And the 'hohlraum', the target, gets destroyed in these bursts.
HiAdrian 1 year ago
they cant make it because free energy would keep ass holes from making more money than they need.
tesla tried this a long time ago!
defect530 1 year ago
@defect530 Why would it be free?
I can easily acquire water for free but instead pay for convenience...
teddyAllah 1 year ago
if they could miniature-ize this and install it on a spaceship or some sort of space travel thing, that would be awesome :D
seriously. the only problem i see with this is the way the energy would be harnessed and/or stored. all i see is a chamber where they shoot thousands of beams on to a small sized capsule. where's the harness part? :D
kpbotbot 1 year ago
the capsule seemed to get destroyed after the process which endure less than a second so it means it has to constantly be replaced?
Blazerelf 1 year ago
Yes, it has to be replaced after each shot.
Note that the NIF is not designed as a powerplant prototype, but to test the radiation hardness of new materials and to imitate properties of nuclear bomb explosions.
HiAdrian 1 year ago
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Blazerelf 1 year ago
Anyone know whats the name of the song playing in the background at 4:37 ?
intheshitter 1 year ago
Man is the bomb
Cschive 1 year ago
makes me wonder what hapens IF that temperature in that chamber leaks a bit or if it even can hold such temperature.
hunteranubis 1 year ago
well if it leaks i guess they will tell i mean gosh a football stadium size machine say a tiny peak size thingy does more for sure will be notable temperature will only be reached when the laser's all focus in the tiny chamber an as the video showed it got destroyed ( i think a mini super nova) so well its not like it was planned to resist the heat it will get destroyed( the hydrogen container not the machine).
Blazerelf 1 year ago
How we r going to store all those energy? Great step though. Kudos to all behind this project.
pravicpu 1 year ago 3
That would be a big ass power-plant.
piraat6666 1 year ago 2
with this laser they might do fusion but how (with this machine) are they going to store the energy that will be released?
Rednael12 1 year ago
Wow. Amazing. How do they achieve such a high pressure in the target chamber?
Beatbot 2 years ago
The NIF will produce the world's first fusion igntion with lasers in 2 or 3 years. It seems this is close to happening. But for this to be realized a laser fusion power plant, science will need to achieve this 10 times a second. The NIF will do it once every three hours. So there is a road ahead to make the potential of virtually unlimited clean electric energy commercially feasible....as I understand it. It's clearly worth trying.
followthefleet1 2 years ago 19
.Plasma energy breakeven has never been achieved: the current record for energy release is held by JET, which succeeded in generating 70% of input power. Scientists have now designed the next-step device - ITER - which will produce more power than it consumes: for 50 MW of input power, 500 MW of output power will be produced.
nicksynnz 1 year ago
@nicksynnz ..Isn't the NIF expected to complete its break even experiment quite soon? And though the NIF can not actually produce sustainable fusion...as in a plant....what is your view on Laser Fusion vs. Containment Fusion...Laser vs. ITER? Is there yet any emerging consensus that one approach will be better / more practical than another?
followthefleet1 1 year ago
@followthefleet1 I think the laser idea is a great initiator but the ITER containment is the only way to at the moment to sustain the reaction safely. We of course have created fusion aka thermonuclear bomb.
nicksynnz 1 year ago
Again you guys are missing the Big ass ingredient and will dump all that energy into lasing the BB of H2 or Frozen Dueterium ....told you this long time ago but keep getting all that FIAT money from OBAMA. You will never get it
deltaalpha21074 2 years ago
if the us built one of these in orbit, the Russians will steal the acs module and fire at the us. It will be like call of duty, but all the soldiers would be vaporized. :P
daflammablechicken 2 years ago
I'm ah firin mah laza!! Shoop-da-whoop!
renegade2142 2 years ago 3
excellent work!
1888junkteam 2 years ago
in other words another potential device that could be used to actually destroy the earth
mymothersmeatloaf 2 years ago
intelligence can always be used for constructive or destructive purposes, yes, look at the atomic bomb
tiptiptapable 2 years ago
not really. there are physical limits; you can't use a pea to destroy anything, can you?
NwZ2 2 years ago
If you eat a pea and it becomes lodged in your trachea then you just destroyed yourself lol
musicgetto 2 years ago 2
Read a physics book
gigiraducanu 2 years ago
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Epicuree 2 years ago
Btw black holes req aprox 9 times the sun size preventing the explosion from managing to throw away the stars matter, gravity making it collapsing back generating almost infinite gravty with minimum mass...acording to theory as it`s practically impossible to comprehend how we could ever get real measurements from beyond the event horizon (sry bout my crap english;)
Epicuree 2 years ago
Fusion power will be the key to clean energy, the question is when we`ll be able to develop and comercialize it...no waste products like with fision plants :D
Epicuree 2 years ago
ok great now we have a new weapon.. its a "Ion cannon"...
so in America nukes are Waste.. welcome to the world of Laser Technology =P
pandoratommorow 2 years ago
reminds me of generals :D
kpbotbot 1 year ago
@kpbotbot
Particle cannon activated.
SergeantUcarn 1 year ago
LoL The comments about it going super nova, or becoming a black whole. Well that's literally impossible. Since a black whole simply put is super gravitational heavenly body. We all should no it takes something the size of a planet to produce gravity. This thing is no where near the size of a planet. About super nova. A star is really really really big. When something that big blows up. It's gonna cause a lot of damage. This thing is no were near the size of a star.
repatte 2 years ago
everything has gravity
biw1 2 years ago
Right but gravity is almost none exist the more you scale down. Below heavenly bodies. You have gravity but it isn't a force to be reckoned with nor does it make a huge impact on the environment around you. My point...
repatte 2 years ago
I read somewhere that in northern India the Himalayas actually make a plumb line kick out a fraction of a degree, the gravity caused by the mass of the mountain range, not sure if its true but interesting.
randomuser2036 2 years ago
My interest in gravity has been renewed thanks to the LHC. If it actually generates micro black wholes. It would mean that density makes a gravitational field more intense and mass makes it's range greater. If this is true it might actually be a way to produce artificial gravity without having a huge amount of mass. Just my speculation however.
repatte 2 years ago
unfortunately this isn''t how gravity work.
And that would use a incredibly unbelievable amount of energy just to have a gravity we can recreate anyway with centrifugal force or constant acceleration in the case of a spaceship.
Tribersman 2 years ago
no that only happens to large stars that when run out of fuel no longer have the explosive force needed to stop itself collapsing in on itself and only if the star has enough mass does it become a black hole otherwise it would just become a white dwarf
spawnof200 2 years ago
a miniature star will be born? what happens when that star stops receiving energy to sustain fusion? has anybody ever heard of a black hole? we've gone too far...
CyanideSprinkles 2 years ago
WOW. you obviosly no nothing about astro phyics. your just one of those dumb anti technology idiots. go read a physics book XD
ethan1142028 2 years ago
you dont know much about quantum and astrophysics do you...
cambridget 2 years ago
i agree, we shouldnt be tampering with things we think we know but we really dont ,this will destroy the world, eather with a miniture colapsed black hole that will suck every thing in it , or a super nova explotion that will blow up the universe( over exageration) but this still isnt good, whats wrong with solar or wind power?
haggard969 2 years ago
This is not a weapon, potentialy it's a very cheap form of energy that will open the universe to exploration and greatly increase the quality of life for everyone
cornskid 2 years ago 2
Attempt to control another source of energy. Instead of spending the millions and billions to up the efficiency of solar cells, just spend 10 x that much on something else so that they can be the sole purveyor of that else. Solar is too free. Anyone can tap into it hence does not make a few individuals into a monopoly.
Cells average 15% efficiency when the records in labs but not produced hits 40%. Sounds like automotive suppression to you? Sounds so to me.
SoCAL Edison SES is the key.
Anothercoilgun 2 years ago
Are you retarded?
vagusnerve89 2 years ago
Talk about clean energy. Plus, it''s got great energy output, unlike solar or wind. If we could perfect fusion, the energy crisis would be a thing of the past.
Nodrog666 2 years ago
I am wondering how this will compare to the Z machines that have been around for quite some time.
skinut76 2 years ago
Fusion isn't the "key" to our future, only a possible one. So far you use more power to create the reaction than you produce after excluding the heat energy as waste. the idea is cool, but the sun already gives us enough energy per day to power the world for a year! Start there, harness that, and move towards.
drummasterxxx 2 years ago
But the sun runs on fusion, doesnt it? How could we get that (solar energy wont do it...)
zakkmiester 2 years ago
Solar energy essentially is fusion energy. The sun is just so powerful that it throws energy all the way here. We'll never be able to build a reactor even close to the sun. New solar panels are in the works that are smaller, lighter, and many times more effective at drawing in and storing energy. So really I'm saying we already have the best fusion reactor at work, it's just billions of miles away, ha ha.
drummasterxxx 2 years ago 2
They actually DID make more power out of a fusion reactor than it uses already...for two seconds :P
Helge129 2 years ago
Critics are dick heads. Fusion is the key to our future. Everything depends upon it's success, everything! No cost is to great! Keep the funding rolling, and the projects coming!
EpochOfReason 2 years ago
Fusion, the ticket to space for the human race. I'm happy that Ill be around to see mankind take such an enormous stride towards the future, but sad that I wont live to see the day they fit fusion reactors to space craft.
EpochOfReason 2 years ago
SHIVA NOVA This has been worked on since 1974... they are just going bigger Also they don't mention the weapons aspect
"When the United States ceased nuclear testing, laser facilities became even more important for defense research, and the portion of Nova shots dedicated to the weapons program increased considerably. Researchers using Nova continued obtaining high-energy-density data necessary to validate the computer codes used to model nuclear weapons physics." LLNL
clip and google it
standauffish 2 years ago
It's you again....
"bump"
Yoetah 2 years ago
Yeah I mean it was created as a weapon.. I mean the first reports on it mention it was made in a weapons lab. Fusion power is great although think of what they could do with this.
dardonZ 2 years ago
2 questions too think about, 1. what if we create something that cant bee put out and it melts this palce from inside out, and 2. how will this energy be controled?
llw53172 2 years ago
How is the heat supposed to be turned into a usable form of energy? Will the reaction produce more power than the lasers consume?
oisiaa 2 years ago
I would imagine that you get more energy out of the system than you put in, in a similar way to how an implosion based Nuke works.
You get some material you want to effect on an atomic level, apply a comparatively weak force to it in a very specific way, and boom (pun intended), you have a Nuke, or a fusion reaction in this case.
Or not, I'm not a physicist. But that's the way I've come to understand how the thing works.
Jagent 2 years ago
This machine is not a power plant, it is just an experiment. We will learn a lot about fusion and fission both from this experiment, so much so that other countries are concerned about it. The knowledge gained from this may allow us to one day build fusion reactors.
thespacecowboy420 2 years ago
Using a 5mm Deuterium-Tritium fuel capsule, the reaction is anticipated to produce 10-20 time the amount of energy than that required to power the 192 lasers in 50 billionth of a second
vandermast9 2 years ago
for energy or for war?
treeman2007 2 years ago
usually both - unfortunately.
h2ophilter 2 years ago
Got work
SchneemanPenner 2 years ago