ITER- The Way to Fusion Power 2

Clip 2 from a video by the European Commission regarding the principles of fusion and interviews with various people from the fusion community. Source- http://www.efda.org/

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• nuclear
• power
• fusion
• energy

[recliner9876]

The EU throws a whole lot of money out the window, but at least they got this right.

[BonScottAC]

Too bad cars don't run on stupidity cause we have that in abundance, for reference look at how many views do videos with cats have compared to this one. I rest my case.

[CognitiveNetwork]

5:50 I want his job.

[CognitiveNetwork]

Wrong. Eventually, the energy supplies will be used up from the earths crust, taking millions of years.

[VarykGerai]

@PopArt because there are lots of people interested in delaying it.

[hrbear]

@eitan71 At 4:06 they say that they will construct it to 800 cubic meters in order to use less outer energy to heat the plasma.

[spiritronin]

Start big, end small.

Just like computers, the first ones were huge room sized bulky things, now you have something the size of a book that has 100 times more power then that old huge one.

[reistje]

thanks for uploading.

[DaWolf805]

@eitan71 Because the larger scale it is, the easier it is to maintain because the plasma can stay hot with less outside intervention. Such a small-scale fusion plant would actually be *more* complex to build and maintain than this one.

[shkotay]

The best part is if an incident happens, theres no fallout. The reaction merely stops, and the containment unit is the only thing to worry about. Safe, cheap and easy. Support the research so they can get there!!

[eitan71]

ok, this big scale fusion is really cool.

but why so big?

why not start with something smaller like using it for home electricity, or cars...?

(and sorry for my broken english)