Not to a story that has the scientific World buzzing the U.S laboratory has reached a massive milestone in nuclear fusion a few months ago and now they’ve done it again experts say this could help pave the way to a future with near Limitless clean energy cbc’s Magda gabrasalasi joins me now from Washington
Makda what can you tell us about this achievement well this is all about trying to replicate the process that powers the Sun and to do it in a way that gets more energy out than it uses so you have scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California that
Say that they’ve now done it twice they have produced a nuclear fusion reaction with net energy gain the process involves fusing two Atomic nuclei into one heavier one which releases energy and this group first announced last December that they did it and they got more energy out than what was used but a
Spokesperson now says an experiment on July 30th produced an even higher output of energy now the results are still being analyzed they’re supposed to be made available to peer-reviewed Publications and scientific conferences but what does this all mean for the future could this help tackle climate change anytime soon we know that last
December number one the scientists announced the initial breakthrough the energy produced was believed to be enough to run a kettle a few times and at that time the U.S department of energy said it was a major scientific breakthrough and that it would pave the way for advancements in National Defense
And the future of clean energy but the fact is it is still early eventually the hope is that this could produce clean cheap unlimited energy that could one day power cars homes even whole cities but that is believed to be decades away it’s going to take many more experiments
Investments and eventually the building of infrastructure to make using this technology a reality thanks so much macda that’s cbc’s Market in Washington
Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California say they have achieved net energy gain in a nuclear fusion reaction for the second time since December. Experts say this could help pave the way to a future with near-limitless clean energy.
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For all the scientific excitement, nuclear fusion has no prospect in the foreseeable future. Speaking of Canada in particular, it's already in the energy future. Next to the automotive sector and the change to EVS, there is almost nothing significant to add in a clean energy future. Canada already enjoys very healthy combinations of energy sources
Hard to believe we still focus on wasteful and non-economical wind and solar facilities.
This is a LIE. It doesn't take into account the energy required to transfer the heat into electricity using steam turbines nor the total system energy required to run the lasers. If that is taken into account then it's about 2 orders of magnitude away from an actual net energy gain.
“Scientists” trick are Brain dead politicians to give them more tax money
CBC News, Trudeau's state run propaganda media. Please report the truth ?
Canada is way ahead on the development of nuclear fission, which should be available for commercial uses within 5 years.
Can’t wait to buy Mr.Fusion the Home Energy Reactor
eh still 30 years away — at least we know its possible now.
Just wait until zero point energy is finally released to the public…how do you think they fly those back engineered UFOs?
So…they did nothing
From the people who brought us bombs for peace…
Incoming all the opinions from "scientist" who weren't part of the conversation or even work in the field but have so much time for youtube instead of science.
Why is it so difficult for cbc to report on this as a news agency and not an agency for collusion with corporations. I'm pretty sure the surface information presented in this report doesn't cover the actual facts about this "amazing" tech. Like the waste produced and the actual numbers involved in producing this clean energy. I'd love to see a news report from a source that doesn't get kickbacks from industries it touts as groundbreaking.
AI will help with this before 2030
and then what?like usual use for war to oppress others ??
awesome, Make America Great Again
I've been hearing & seeing about this for a long time now!!!! I'll believe it when I see it!!!!
How much are they going to goug for energy?
Would be interesting if they can somehow use this in conjunction with LK-99 to make some really interesting tech.
i hate these CBC journalists; they pretend to be both authorities & trustworthy. none of it is true. they're role-playing for their own gain.
The next 25 years will be be make-or-break for human civilization as we work to get out of the fossil fuel climate crisis. During this critical period, we have zero time to work on this longest of long shots. A good portion of the nuclear physics community says terrestrial fusion is actually impossible to do let alone do at commercial scale that is cost effective.
This is one of the technologies that deserve to receive more cap-and-trade money. Tax pollution more, and put that money toward solutions that reverse climate change. Until fusion works, we need to invest billions into traditional nuclear fission power. It's safe, clean, reliable, and cheap.
Yup, $10K per KWH.
This story was just another opportunity for the CBC to mention climate change.
Wheres rhe suns lasers?
Youre going to have more lights heating up the world
OK what happened to her eyes just after 2:04??
Clean and cheap energy? They will probably use it to wipe out populations before powering homes. I hope I'm wrong.
USA! USA! USA! USA!
Hmm, trying to make a small sun on earth to produce power. What could go wrong? Tread lightly or you will destroy the planet.
Neck Reds still need their oil sand we will make their kind obsolete. High temperature Superconductors (like LK 99 if it was the real deal) would be used to Confine the plasma in magnetically confined Fusion reactors to achieve fusion. The fusion achieved by the National Ignition facility is Inertial (laser) not magnetic confinement. There is no direct pathway from this to a fusion reactor that supplies power to the grid, as most of such reactors are magnet not laser based. However as a Physics breakthrough it is
Excellent delivery maaam!!
Allegedly, cotton socks are terrible…
Well done.
HA so I'm guessing America has "made a deterrent" to punish scientists for positing suggestions which could pave the way for military families to be as Enlightened By Science as normal people are?
Comment your bets
Where is the proof?
"Reprocate"? You've got to be kidding…
No surprise national defense comes first for something that may save us from pollution and global warming.
What scares me is if they use this to make a weapon instead? Similar to Nuclear plants to the Atomic… . They are already talking of National Defense.
Maybe one day fusion will be a source of plentiful clean energy, but it won't be cheap and will probably only be technically feasible for enormous plants.
They would have to amplify the hydrogen's quantum vibrations with microwaves first and then synchronize it with the laser's frequency. That lock along with laser compression triggers fusion.
Praise a scientist. This is the gospel. She said this is still early. although the first reactor was built in uk in 1946 like 80 years ago.
US/CBC/CNN lie.
Trudeau resign!
Do we have decades?
I am not sure that nuclear fusion is the answer because they would only be using fusion as a heat source to operate steam generators. They have another heat option right now, create Plasma from hydrogen using MHZ frequencies, can produce 11000F, use Plasma heat source for steam generators, far cheaper and available now.
It's already been made fusion. Just making it happen with lasers is the break through fusion haaa
You didn't talk about how they will store the radioactive waste that will last for hundreds of thousands of years.
Bp and other companies are trying to control this with fervor.
Hás the laser power consumption been taken into account?