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Uploaded on Oct 8, 2007

Google Tech Talks
November 9, 2006

ABSTRACT
This is not your father's fusion reactor! Forget everything you know about conventional thinking on nuclear fusion: high-temperature plasmas, steam turbines, neutron radiation and even nuclear waste are a thing of the past. Goodbye thermonuclear fusion; hello inertial electrostatic confinement fusion (IEC), an old idea that's been made new. While the international community debates the fate of the politically-turmoiled $12 billion ITER (an experimental thermonuclear reactor), simple IEC reactors are being built as high-school science fair projects.

Dr. Robert Bussard, former Asst. Director of the Atomic Energy Commission and founder of Energy Matter...

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  • MrLivePositive8

    MrLivePositive8 1 year ago

    Thorium.

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  • holderoftheflame

    holderoftheflame 10 months ago

    Perhaps youtube is trying to better you?

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  • TheDestruct0r

    TheDestruct0r 3 months ago

    Hmmmn kickstarter anyone?

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  • mikefromspace

    mikefromspace 3 months ago

    No need to use elements for energy any longer. You can imitate any element using magnets and proper control of frequencies. Fusion and fission of elementary particles, not of elements, is more importantly they key to understanding the universe in time and space infinite.

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  • Takura4

    Takura4 3 months ago

    Hmm.

    en wikipedia org/wiki/Robert_W._Bussard#The­_Polywell

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  • Takura4

    Takura4 3 months ago

    And I see Bussard passed away in 2007. :\

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  • Takura4

    Takura4 3 months ago

    So what's happened since this video? Has Google, or anyone else even, picked this project up?

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  • thepcguy01

    thepcguy01 3 months ago

    ''every star is a fusion reactor, every single one of them and not one of them is toroidal'' just brilliant!

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  • DustyWiyrick

    DustyWiyrick 4 months ago

    fuck us more please--------NO REALLY ---FUCK YOURSELF!

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  • spacedecoy

    spacedecoy 4 months ago

    Awesome man … I understood the process and history and tech as I’m an electronic engineer working on cool stuff and I really respect these older geniuses with a passion for common sense in tech advancement…. It’s a shame that invested interest and jealousy back stabs these very precious to mankind people… good on you mate release the information and don’t let them gag you again…. Top man!!!

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  • Aussie50

    Aussie50 4 months ago

    Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR) is the future of power generation!

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  • comicbstudios

    comicbstudios 4 months ago

    damn it they didnt die

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