Upcoming on Oct 2
Added 2021-09-29 15:53:49 +0000 UTCAs I told you in December last year, one of my plans for 2021 has been to cover a larger variety of topics in my channel. Of course this brings the problem that I will be talking about subjects somewhat outside my own research. Luckily, thanks to your support, I now have a fact-checker to work with who helps me sort through the literature and contact experts on those questions that a literature search doesn't answer. And so on Saturday I'll take on a question that many of you have requested: What are we to make of the claims that nuclear fusion power is close to become reality?
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Even though there’s no nuclear waste you need plenty of neutrons buzzing about so blocking them is an issue only soluble with lots of mass. The strong magnetic fields for containing the fusion components require superconduction that require super-cooling unless we can discover alloys that superconduct at higher temperatures. Initially at least a working fusion reactor is going to be much larger than a motor vehicle.
Jonathan Sturm
2021-09-29 18:28:25 +0000 UTCGood rundown on the technological issues here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JurplDfPi3U
Jonathan Sturm
2021-09-29 17:26:58 +0000 UTCIf I could ask a question it would be how come we are not spending more money on R&D? If fusion is feasible, it will solve numerous problems. It would completely eliminate the need to mine and burn coal. Nuclear reactors would be deprecated, so no more nuclear waste. They could power trains and planes, and somewhere in the distant future a fusion reactor could be made small enough that one would fit into my DeLorean. If fusion is not feasible, we should be focusing R&D on better battery technology. Once the battery is constructed, if wind and dam power is used to recharge the battery we in effect have a clean energy source.
D Brown
2021-09-29 16:23:02 +0000 UTC
