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1. Investment for the future, where can I buy shares?

2. @GIFT1FROM1THE1GODZ you need to get the toast back up again =/

3. @TheJamesrocket Lithium won’t be used in batteries in 5 years time. Science in the field has only really begun in the last 15 years – so theres still alot of room to grow.
   To put into context the science that the current batteries are based upon was developed by only a single research group (around 5 individuals) looking into what was at the time believed to be a dead end. Now theres several hundred in the field

4. @neverfearchrisishere Oh, theres more than enough deuterium, that was never in doubt. The problem (potentially) is lithium, which we derive tritium from. Lithium will be in short supply when we want it for our carbon free vehicles. That could cause a serious supply bottleneck. Reaching the breaking point with fusion power will be a great difficulty, but it should happen, of course.

5. @KygonG If you want to gamble the worlds future of something which has yet to be proven as a viable power source…………. Fusion power was 25 years away 15 years ago – and its 25 years away now.

6. @TheJamesrocket …..water is NOT D2O. It is H20. This is different. Only a tiny fraction of Hydrogren in water is the Deuterium isotope. There is however enough Deuterium in the solar system to last dozens of millenia.

7. @artofcows No this wasn’t sci-fi 10 years ago.
   By 10 years ago the investment into researching fusion was already long past 1 billion $.
   Fusion power has been 25 years away for the last 20 years.

8. Dude i have an idea how we can have energy for 5 billion years. Lets live close to the Sun! : )

9. this was scifi 10 years ago…

10. @TheJamesrocket The “proof” is in education…under ‘nuclear physics’. Read up on it and learn for yourself.

11. @KygonG Pretty much. But as long we keep drawing deuterium from the ocean (water is 1 kg deuterium, 8 kg oxygen) we will be contiuosly running out of water! It’ll be gone, converted into energy. After a few thousand years, you’ll want to switch to something else, like zero point energy, if it even exists.

12. @JGMagoo Wheres the proof?

13. awesome so in 2035 our energy problems will be gone as-long as nothing goes horridly wrong?

14. ok howcome the news never covers things like this?!!?

15. Sometimes I think why nobody write at these videos. People should be interested…
    Thanks for uploading these videos, please, upload more. France and Japan are working so hard to get ‘alternative’ energy source; we really should get something soon….

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17. Don’t hold your breath…or sell your oil, coal, and gas stocks!

    So far, even the application of more electrical energy than that which is produced by the fusion itself has been UNABLE to contain the plasma.

    The temperature difference is far more dramatic than trying to pour molten steel into a pot made of ice.

    Nuclear fusion development is currently at a standstill due to this dilema, with no solution in sight.

18. I hope fusion comes to fruition soon. Oil and shit is just ridiculous, well, its ridiculous that we are still using it as our primary forms of energy. Republicans and big business spreads propaganda against climate research so people think oil and shit is still just ok. Fuck big business, fuck fox news, and fuck republicans.

19. 1kG of boron, will produce total of 17.7 GWh of energy.
    In other words, for 17 hours it can substitute for a standard gigawatt nuclear power reactor.
    In other words, with 516 kg of boron, it can substitute for a standard gigawatt nuclear power plant reactor for a year.

20. The voltage applied is 0.6 MegaVolt.
    So the protons are accelerated toward the boron, and reach it at energy 0.6MeV, which is optimal for the intended reaction between Boron and proton, which produces three alpfa particles He4+, with total energy 7.4 MeV
    No heat is generated, alpha particles reach the enveloping output electrode, producing charge of +6e on it, by capturing six electrons from the output electrode .
    resulting helium must be removed, for continuous process to occur. –>cont…

21. The reaction used is:
    Boron-11 + Hydrogen => 3 He4
    Yeild = 2.46 * 3 MeV

    large vacuum tube used as a “reactor”
    One electrode is made of boron, say 1kG of it, connected to negative.
    Other electrode is made say of palladium, connected to positive, and connected to hydrogen under pressure , and heated – so it is a source of protons H+. –>continued..

22. Check out the talk by Bill Gates on Ted Talks about energy, where he dismisses fusion…. I had hopes he’d save himself, but damn….. no luck…..

23. @ZaphedBeebleBrox YES! Finally, someone else out there sees the problem is not a lack of power: Instead, it is that we humans are too greedy in our use of such power, and the planet can no longer support this habit. Even with fusion power available in the future, there will be far too many 2nd world countrys (east india, china, etc) becoming 1st world and demanding their share of the good life. We cannot support any more developed countrys!

24. Pity many people commented on rather than listened to the video. If they did they’d know it is fusion not fission, it is clean without the long half lives related to fission (12 years only) and that deuterium and tritium are easily obtained from deposits of lithium and the sea. It also spells out that while fusion is still an endothermic reaction that by 2035 this will not just be resolved but will be a sustainable commercial product.

25. Put Bill O’reilly and Obama inside a sealed chamber and see the fusion energy flow.