Fusion Energy Documentary

Al Gore eat your heart out. :) This is a short documentary providing a brief Introduction to Nuclear Fusion Energy. It explains the need for significant government investment in magnetic fusion energy. It also, identifies some shortcomings of renewable energy sources. This power has the potential to provide an unlimited source of energy for the world, and could solve global warming.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Energy
• Fusion
• Nuclear
• Introduction
• Economics
• Global
• Warming
• Climate
• Change
• Oil
• Prices
• physical
• science
• social
• engineering

[kmarinas86]

Chart curvature... wtf.

[joshuaki3]

It was supposed to be a joke referring to a scene in Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth."

:)

[archdeaconj]

In the 1950s the newspapers and broadcast media sensationally declared that cheap, unlimited energy was just around the corner. This was fusion energy. It never happened. It is still just around the corner. It has been explained to us that developing fusion is trickier than we thought. Maybe. Specifically there is a problem with stability. But is it so intractable that it remains unsolved sixty years later? Or is fusion power being put on hold until the oil runs out?

[joshuaki3]

Fusion history in a nutshell:H-Bomb gives over confidence to fusion energy. Countries secretly boast unlimited energy to newspapers. 1958 Geneva Conference removes cloak of classified work to reveal major stability/confinement problems. The 60's, Tokamak experiment shows breakthrough in confinement. Other countries confirm. The 70's macrostability is largely solved and reactor size for making energy is realized. 1980 Carter says lets build it. Regan says no. We've been waiting ITER ever since.

[joshuaki3]

For a thorough history of fusion here are a couple books:

"Fusion: the search for endless energy", Robin Herman.

"Fusion: Science, Politics, and the invention of a new energy source", Joan Lisa Bromberg.

[MrTimothytim]

the single most imporatant mission AND the world today ><

[danworthj]

Three hundred million degrees celcius. That sounds real fucking safe. Let me go to another planet before you fire that stupid idea up.

[rainbowsalads]

The multinationals that have spent quintillions of our money and our man power to create systems for delivering and using oil from (spark plugs to pump stations) are going to do their absolute best to make the public spend as much as possible till every last drop is burned , a long transisition phase. How can we get these oil companies/governments to give us fusion in 10 years? With enough funding and scientists working on this project ,it is achievable. They just want our money to control us.