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  • Fusion is safer, I'm sorry.

  • You can gather energy from these reactors much like a fission reactor we use today. Instead of radioactive material you use plasma and fusion to boil water and spin a stream turbine to generate energy. Fission is safer with little radiation and little to no chance of catastophic meltdown, or any melt down for that matter.

  • I am still not 100% clear on how we are going to gather energy from these reactions, any ideas, anyone, i want it to work, I just don't understand.

  • Wow you can make a fusion reaction with a laser pen and some wire. Awesome.

  • While you are checking ... the place to look is Fusion Power Corporation's web site and view the YouTube video "StarPower for Tomorrow" !! This is real FUSION using Deuterium and Tritium. A solution to the energy problem that is real.

  • While you are checking ... the place to look is Fusion Power Corporation's web site and view the YouTube video "StarPower for Tomorrow" !! This is real F

  • It might have a blue glow, but Cherenkov radiation is nicer.

  • @Freeflyer91 First time I saw it in a cooling pond I was moved. Great colour.

  • Our energy future is going to lie with Star Scientific's Muon Catalysed Fusion. Check out their you tube video " in the footsteps of fusion"

  • i`m not familiar with the scientific term but i think thats what i ment, :D great job

  • @ashman102 actually there are. Fusion research have more money to spend than the rest of the energy sources combined. But they not work with this type of fusion, it the giant donut that got everyone attention. Btw, great video!

  • this is just a simple neon light, the reaction is un stable because you don't have enough if any mercury in the chamber

  • Excellent demonstrations of a farnsworth fusor, well done!

  • nice laser. u can clearly see the laserlight to the pointer

  • @darzuadrian you mean the plasma tail? all fusors do this.

  • I fail to understand why anyone would dislike this.

  • @oftenloriendo2865654 GeH_sChê!SseN

  • this is the Hirsch Feinhold/Feynman (can't remember) reactor right? How many Volts are you running the inner grid at?

  • Scientists are scary! Just posted "The Boron Song" (aka "The Boron Rap") with lyrics. Have fun!!!

  • Haha, you created plasma - only a small step away from a sustained fusion reactor. Well done! Who would have thought the solution to all of the world's energy problems would be found here on Youtube...

  • @danc222 Yeah, I hope you meant that in a ironic way.. cause these people havn't invented shit.. they merely replicated what scientists have been experimenting with in the last 5 years..

  • oh if only we could find a sustainable method of producing fusion, all this crap about coal and petroleum would be a thing of the past. :\

  • would it cause a lethal does of radiation if the experiment failed?

  • @newcomer9747 Not lasting radiation. There is only direct radiation, so no fallout.

  • Dr. Octavius?

  • power MOAR POWER!!!!

  • how did you make your inner and outer grid, me and my friend want to make one and we need some help, thanks!!

  • too little catastrophic failure

  • ooo Shiny...

    That there is a pretty light!

  • dueterium IS NOT nuclear only tritium is

  • @Xu53r1X

    u mean non-reactive with itself?

  • @fodete01 no i mean the isotope does not give off any radiation i.e. beta / alpha decay and it does not have a half life so i mean it is not radioactive

  • @Xu53r1X one would say it is a stable isotope of hydrogen, whereas Tritium is an unstable isotope.

  • @ConnorXV yes

  • so called cold fusion

  • where do you go to school? Mine has a similar senior design project going on

  • Enriched uranium must grow on trees where you live.

  • @jrbpyro101 i know how both work and i have my own fusor.... And when you said that's not what he ment..., well either way its not a nuclear process cuz D2 is a non nuclear isotope of hydrogen and the larger reactors such as the tokamak use D2 + tritium

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  • @SorenaAurora It is not a nuclear reactor, you have no tritium just dueterium and D2 is not a nuclear isotope of hydrogen

  • @Xu53r1X He didnt say it was a nuclear reactor, he said nuclear fusion reactor. Nuclear reactors that use a fissile material are nuclear fission reactors which are completely different. They dont use tritium in nuclear fission reactors or fusion reactors for the most part. Some of the larger reactors use tritium I believe, but deuterium is usually the fuel. And finally deuterium is an isotope of hydrogen.

  • @Xu53r1X Its refered to as Heavy Hydrogen, Its called a Nuclear Fusion Reactor.

  • Danger, X-rays also!

  • cuanta energia puede generar?

  • @MaQuGo119 en un segundo puede generar la misma cantidad de energia

    que gasta la ciudad de chicago en 6 meses

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  • life does fusion

  • ...and so, when the evil Spider Mastermind and the Cyberdemon send their minions of hell down to earth through the portals... we'll be ready with our PLASMA RIFLES! =3

  • Just out of curiosity, why is there a beam of plasma leaving the reactor through the bottom left corner?

    Sorry if I sound dumb, but I am new to this kind of thing.

  • Whateva the other comments are!!! This is so exciting clip for me :)

  • Does successful fusion release a significant amount of neutrons?

  • @mobbindag it depends on the type of fusible material used. For Deuterium- Deuterium reactions, you can expect one neutron per fusion event.

  • and thus the sun Jeffery was born a star!

  • making baby stars

  • Talk turbulent water, talk fusion!

  • a very interesting.....

    I believe corresponding to a diameter of about 6 nucleons may not be stable enough because the four most tightly bounded nuclei are decreasing in order of the binding energy itself, ....that is to say 62Ni, 58Fe, 56Fe, and 60Ni.[4] require an adequate supply of deuterium-tritium fuel which the resulting energy barrier is limited to about 0.01 MeV.

    ...nickel isotope is clearly the problem here.

  • Fusion from water!

  • Iron man, here we come!

  • Nuclear fusion goes on in the air

  • You just successfully built the reactor of Iron Man =D

  • Deep life is water powered

  • Nuclear fusion is our definitive answer to climate change and the depleting resources of oil. Why the hell aren't research projects more heavily funded?

  • I invented a breakthrough energy source which violates the law of energy conservation. I have a PROOF that there are electrodynamic phenomena violating the law of energy conservation. I am looking for $6M for a prototype and patents.

    H. Tomasz Grzybowski

    tel. +48-512-933-540

  • @henrykay01 how do we know u wont take our money and screw us over with somthing that will not work

  • @gravedigr12 For $10 000 I can perform an experiment that will confirm my theory.

  • Hello , it's sounds good that camera pics up only blue instead purple, only few Infra red are produced as heat : this is a good point § Just One intuition.- the "laser diode effect proves a polarised ligth. : Why don't you build a resonant cavity in order to tune, amplifies and eventually self sustain the process ? ;-P

  • hmmjemnd bei laune mit mia zu chaten oder am tele oder auch per cam ^^ bin gelangweilt

  • assista videos proibidos no meu canal

  • Blue Ray diode Fake !

  • @ElyanSun You are not as clever as you think you are!

  • @acapone84 Can you explain why it won't work? It's one thing to say something doesn't work, but if you don't explain _why_ it doesn't work, it just sounds like an arrogant dismissal.

  • @mike4ty4 Fusion does work and the physics is solid, but in the real world we haven't been able to get more energy out of a fusion reaction than we have put into it. IE you put 1000Watts into it to make it go and you only get 500Watts back out of it...

  • That's just a farnsworth fusor; the wire mesh sphere in the center is the negative terminal to attract the nucleons, the positive terminal is a concentric sphere of larger diameter. I independently came up with the design for one myself before I learned it had already been invented 40 years earlier. Put in 1 joule of electrical energy, get out 1.0001 joules of heat if you're lucky, and no heat engine is good enough to turn that into anywhere near the original 1 joule of useful energy. Try again.

  • If you can run it on a commercial basis you will be the richest person on earth...

  • Nice!

    I saw a similar thing on a forum but it was not producing energy, it was using energy to keep plasma hot.

    Fusion reactor is a overunity reactor, if you spend 1 unit of energy to initialize the reaction, than the fusion reactor gives you much more than 2 unit.

    I there's not overunity , it's not convenient.

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  • just in case anyone's wondering.... no it doesn't have anything to do with your Plasma Television =/

  • lol

  • u nvr knw man.. some pe

    cya

    pce out

  • try beam a powerful laser beam at that thing

    see if we get any reaction

    or try to put a strong magnetic field around that the with some hydrogen gas around!

    :D

  • what´s the EROEI for this?

  • no it isn't.

  • you don't exist either, no point commenting :@

  • A steam plasma does nuclear fusion: Using onyl a small v oltage to set it up.

  • Plasma fusion 4 energy of the 21st century!!

  • how u do dat? what materials did u use

  • if this were fusion would there be a huge explosion?

  • maybe not HUGE explosion...but this is not fusion. just ionized air (plasma)

  • now you idiot, only if the energy is released in a large amount in a small area at the same time

  • almost, but not quite there :)

  • this is ion multipacting, not fusion

  • It's a precursor. They don't have the time, money, energy, or equipment to go from plasma to fusion.

  • not even nearly

    plasma is as easy to do as shit, but fusion... (!!)

    tho there is realy a -comparatively- easy way to get fusion, its used as a neutron source, but this reaction consumes much more energy as it produces

  • why does it have a "tail"?

  • Cerenkov light

  • doesnt gas needed to be like 200 million degrees to create plasma?

  • the electrostatic confinement compress che plasma until it reach the extreme pressure and themperature to start the D+D fustion reaction

  • 100 million i think for actual fusion

  • No, I think this is a plasma of eletrons.

  • @22rodneymullen22 No, something like 5000 C is enough. Lightning is plasma, so is the mercury in a fluo tube, so is neon or argon in the pizza man's sign, so is the plasma in a plasma TV.

  • A steam plasma does molecular nuclear fusion: On Earth, today.

  • as sad before it´s no problem to create your on plasma, just distinguish ionizing and non-onizing radiation, all you need for it is a strong magnetron, think about about it and create your own "star" xD

  • who is the leader today in the running for the controled nuclear fusion ?

  • mmmmmmeeeeeeeee

  • Probably EFDA-JET.

  • Europe

  • watch the movie

    watch?v=vDAZsPkTkMM&feature=re­lated

  • wow what is that

  • a fransworth fusor

  • What can you tell us about the setup?

  • Don't confuse this blue glow with the Cherenkov radiation you see in a water-regulated fission reaction. This blue glow is almost entirely from hot plasma (not too different from a neon light), not the result of nuclear reactions.

  • ...what do you think a star is?...its plasma...all plasma...an ionized gas......and a star does fusion...fusion creates plasma

    nice try...but it is an actual nuclear reaction

  • Neon lights shine due to plasma discharge -- do you think beer signs rely on nuclear reactions?

    Plasma is simply gas whose electrons are no longer bound to individual atoms. In a star, a nuclear fusion reaction heats the gas until it becomes a plasma. In a fusor, almost all of the energy heating the plasma is from the electricity being pumped through by the driving circuits. The temperature effects of the fusion are negligible.

    The neutrons tell you there is a nuclear reaction. Not the glow.

  • and what exactly is a driving circuit...since when is their electricity doing at the point of fusion??

    and you proved my point...nuclear fusion creates a plasma from the heat...

    I don't know if you realized this...but when we create self-sustaining fusion....thats pretty much just a mini-star...so yes...there is plasma

    No...neon lights don't rely on nuclear fusion....but plasma will always...ALWAYS...be caused by nuclear fusion

  • plasma is just another state that matter can exist in

    generally from coolest to hottest it goes:

    solid>liquid>gas>plasma

    Plasma is a convenient state of matter when trying to achieve fusion

  • plasma is the ONLY state of matter when trying to achieve fusion

  • how would you know? its foolish to say something is impossible. I doubt you understand the current accepted paradigm let alone emerging ones

  • Look At Some ITER Videos

  • Kool, good job. Thos thigns are complicated without experience. Yout title is misleading though.

  • is this simular to a flame inside i glass inside a microwave? still creates plasma

  • im 14 and im half way done with my iec

  • Fusion? this is just a plasma, there cant be a fusion reaction going on..

  • Actually, if you hold a neutron counter up to this thing, you will get an increased neutron flux count. Thus, it is actually fusing isotopes of hydrogen. However the device is indeed an energy sink, not a source.

    Google "fusor" for details.

  • were do you get a neutron counter from? ANd how much do they cost?

  • Fusion reactor!?!? there is some contradiction!

  • Cerenkov light is so pretty.

  • So then where is your Nobel prize?

  • You think that deserves a Nobel Prize?  Fusion reactors are so easy to make. I made one for only $80, although mine looks a lot crappier than that. Thousands of people have built these things, they are pretty easy to make. You can find directions online. Basically its just high voltages running through a wire grid in a vacuum. The electrons given off ionize what little gas is left and due to electromagnetism the the ions will all cluster in the center, if hydrogen is present you get fusion.

  • If my mom knew about the things I build hehehe

  • @DarkStar1uav but honastly whats the point of spending 80 bucks to watch this thing glow seems pointless and useless

  • This is another one of those amazing demonstrations that proves that we as a species are capable of anything. Keep up the good work and I hope to see a Nobel Prize in the future for you.

  • Nobel Prizes are political stunts nowadays, not that this even qualifies for a hand clap... no disrespect but you can make this for like 60 bucks and a couple hours work

  • Then I'd like to see you do it and post a video, smartass. =D

  • No shit why does everyone on youtube have to be an armchair quarterback.A couple hours work?Please....

  • How do you know he already didn't?

  • 60$ might be enough to buy the plexiglass sheet....

    But I agree with the Nobel prize comment.

    This award used to mean something. Nowadays Nobel Peace Prizes are being handed out to war-mongering presidents, and lying politicians such as Barack Obama and Al Gore.

    Alfred Nobel is spinning in his grave.

  • Looks like a cathode ray tube demonstration without the cross...

  • no cache :B

  • y kual es la gracia?

  • producir energia.

  • what happens is they have .5 of a gram of both tritium and deuterium together. Its compressed and heated to an extent that it ovecomes the coloumb barrier, releasing helium-4 and neutrons along with heat. The problem with the D/T fusion method is that over 80% of the energy potential is in the neutrons, which can't be used for energy production and can damage the reactor walls.

  • I thought the problem was that you can only get the fusion reaction at about 10 000 000 degrees, there for no metal can take. Which is the whole point of using a magnetic force to keep contained instead. But then it's the fact it takes to much fuel to get it that hot?

    (I'm only 16, doing GCSE science, so correct me if I'm wrong lol)

  • what is a fusion here?, much electricity in those wires can exiting electrons?. What results you get?

  • Fusion is possible, It has been for a great while, the problem is that it is not as efficient as needed, you put in alot of fuel, and get all the energy in form of neutrons, wich are really hard to "harvest" and turn into other forms of energy, and the neutrons heat the metal to some extreme temperatures, wearing on the very expencive plating and parts..

  • OLED's

  • do you magnetically charge the wires?

  • If you are impressed with the Farnsworth fusor you should look up the Polywell reactor pioneered by the late great Robert Busard, its way better than the Farnsworth fusor and it has no physical internal grid so no grid losses. Hell, they've gotten closer to net power than any tokamak reactor ever made.

  • the descriptions said they didnt achieve fusion

  • to be honest fusion is very easy if you have the right equipement ok here is the simple version get the fusion fuel, get the chamber, now make the eletric current at 25k negetive

    and have it on the ground, pump in the fuel there you go

  • Um...I'm vaguely impressed, but to be honest I'm really not convinced. This is FUSION. 100 million degrees C, where did you get the energy from, which fusion reaction is it, deutrium-tritum or helium-3-helium-3, is the magnetic field supplied by those wires really sufficient to contain the plasma, fast moving neutrons, not safe. Basically, I need to see an explanation video before I accept you've managed it. The JET tokamak barely manages a few seconds...

  • The big tokamak reactors people think of when it comes to fusion operate by heating up a gas to great enough temperatures so that the average particle energy is greater than the coulombic repulsion forces between nuclei. They depend on magnetic confinement of the plasma.

    This type of fusion is called Inertial Electrostatic Confinement. IEC uses two concentric grids, the samller central one is at high negative potential and accelerates the nuclei towards the center, the ions confine themselves.

  • Tokamak tech is a deadly born tech, since it suffers from severe COP problems. Take fusionable elements below Fe, ignite an el. plasma, perform a well timed magnetic hyperspace transfer cycle, where Coulomb barrier decreases with 1/n^2 (n=nth hyperspace). On return, the elements fuse and energy (el. COP>9) can be harvested. Black holes do it, suns do it, Sandia does it. Google for +Sandia +"Linear Transformer Driver". Since EHT is not an accepted theory, they don't talk about. They do it. ;-))

  • You didn't read my description of the video, obviously. I didn't say we achieved fusion, I said we created plasma, which leads up to fusion at a greater level of vacuum and power. A bottle of Deuterium is expensive and if you able to get your hands on a bottle, there are so many other safety concerns i.e. radiation, among others, that would take the price well out of the range of most COLLEGE students.

  • Atomic clock. Can be powered and energized by a solar clock but doesn't use sun light power, only uses laser light(Or also fiber optic laser light) which is absorbed in clock's solar panel cells or photo voltaic cells which absorb laser light and sends it to it's atomic clock.The reason to use this,not smart to have any electrical wires any were around atomic things,could cause radiation;Use safe laser light it can charge any device,even if under water it can charge from a distance of 10 meter.

  • Are you sure that was 100,000,000 C?

  • Now, I wonder what gas they have inside there, and what evidence that fusion is occurring. I have read that Hirsch-Fransworth fusors (the device in the video) actually can and do produce fusion, but still not enough to balance out the energy put into them.

  • no shit not break even enrgy, no has done that yet, but ppl are trying, not these things though, tokamaks. This was invented in the 40s. If you think these havn't been tested by scientists to see if they work your dumb, they do work, but are useless. You do get minor sporatic fusion events in the plasma if its hot enough, you can detect the neutron emissions. Any anpdr-70 will show the neutron flux if it exists, even at less than 1cpm.

  • tis helium 3

  • E.T had a red one in his chest. haha i'm so not funny.

  • HAHAHAHA shit that was funny

  • Aliens like to hide near the reactor cause its nice and warm

  • before i read the ino i thought you were claiming to have built a nuclear fusion reactor. i was getting ready to majorly criticise or congratulate lol. very well done. how was this plasma created by the way? ive seen plasma before but none this stable...

  • for real, this is really nice, howd u pull it off?

  • Beautiful Artificial Star =)

  • so how powerfull did that one get?

  • A campfire is a plasma too... but this is a long way from fusion!! Read up on the Farnsworth Fusor... this is the simplest fusion method I've seen... it uses an E field (as opposed to a B field, like in Tokamak) for confinement to fuse hydrogen into helium... BTW... have fun!! and don't blow up your neighborhood! ;^)

  • How can you confine with E field?

  • I would say inside a hollow uniformly charged torus but that would be wrong, so Ill go for the not so practical around a uniformly charged sun.