How will a fusion power plant work?

A school class in 2100: The futuristic lesson is backed up with documentary photos and animations and gives the viewer an entertaining survey of the principles, development and status of fusion research. Like the sun, a fusion power plant is to derive energy from fusion of atomic nuclei. To ignite the fusion fire one has to succeed in confining the fuel, a hydrogen plasma, in magnetic fields and heating it to temperatures of over 100 million degrees. The next step in world-wide fusion research on the way to this almost inexhaustible energy source is the ITER international test reactor.

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Science & Technology

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• fusion
• nuclear
• hasinger
• stellarator
• environment
• energy
• plasma
• hydrogen
• tritium

[sithalo]

that was really cool and slightly creepy

[cybermarsactual]

This class sucks, can I get an add/drop?

[PirataPower]

Such my dick CHEVRON

[thepower69]

6:53 Why yes it is rather... tremendous

[BTPPaintBallTeam]

@kristiancharlesberg so this has nothing to do with oil or the government, it just isnt possible for us to create fusion yet. Untill scientists can create the right pressures and temperatures fusion will not be possible. Oh and i dont know anyone who has a nuclear reactor to power their car.Oh and you need alot of oil to run all the machines neccessary for fusion to be possible. if your gonna comment do at least a little research or have an actual point please.

[UberCon]

In the meantime, nuclear fission is the best source of baseline electrical power. It's a shame that so much of the energy produced is wasted and that it will be decades before the currently-best designs are, maybe, put to use.

[Keinlicht]

@fakemadereal There is. By using nanostructure shielding, it is possible to construct a photovoltaic cell which will charge by thermal energy.

I'm not actually sure how much more efficient it is, but it seems to me that a good rule is: the fewer energy transformations needed, the better.

[fakemadereal]

"Why?",I cry. "why must we use one of the most advanced technologies to boil water,to create electricity? Is there not another way? A more efficient way of extracting power from plasma.

[lightfdar]

@Baronstone wow that comment was a long time ago <_<. well lets see my comment was not so narrow minded as to not think that fusion power would not be a rather important form of energy if properly harnessed. I was more looking at the propoganda within the vid. Read my comments and compare them to the vid. make another comment would like to hear you opinion.

[Baronstone]

@lightfdar Its not about coal or oil. Its about the fact that a fusion plant is much more efficient than any other type of power plant we use today. Its about the fact that there is no harmful byproduct produced with this type of power plant. Its about the fact that the fuel for a fusion plant is SEA WATER