The Power Source of The Universe - Can Nuclear Fusion Help us Reach Type 1 Civilization?

Human civilization has achieved some incredible things during its short reign on this planet. Technological development over the past 5,000 years of human civilization has led our species to dominance of life on Earth and placed us on a pathway to achieving a Type I civilization.

To reach even the basic level of a “Kardashev Type 1 civilization” we must do two things:
Develop more advanced technology and share it with all responsible nations.
Make renewable energy accessible to all parts of the world.

Five hundred years ago, the Aztec civilization believed that the sun and all its power was sustained by blood from human sacrifice.
Today, we know that the sun, along with all other stars, is powered by a reaction called nuclear fusion.
Scientists and engineers have studied the Sun’s fusion process in hopes of developing a way to harness energy from fusion in machines on Earth.

What exactly is nuclear fusion, and how does it work in terms of producing electricity?

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[carpemkarzi]

We will start to move toward Type 1 as soon as we actually start thinking of ourselves as one actual species instead as us vs them

[denjesperriel]

"The power of the sun, in the palm of my hand ..."

[HugoTron]

Fusion to reach type 1 Civ? Yes. Although a lot more things need to be fixed to humans be type 1 that´s a good start.

[becauseitscurrentyear]

imagine if stars were actually planets that tired making fusion reactors that then had a runaway effect... lol

[rhiantaylor]

We are close to overcoming the first major hurdle for Fusion as mass power generation, i.e. making it work. The next big hurdle will be to demonstrate that it can be cheaper than Wind and Solar electricity + energy storage. The second hurdle is getting tougher with each passing year as Wind/Solar get cheaper.

[nganpoiis]

The only problem is Human doesn't love sharing.

[bladethegreat]

Today's fact: The Himalayan Honey Bee, the largest of the honey bees, makes a hallucinogenic honey that tribes collect.

[derrick]

Really like hearing about fusion power.

[millevenon]

Once we can terraform planets, each family must get its own planet to prevent infighting

[andyalder]

DT fusion only produces 1 neutron to breed tritium from lithium, some neutrons will not breed and tritium decays so DT fusion requires external tritium supply. Where does this tritium supply come from?

[Zen_Power]

Fusion has already been completed by Trunks and Goten

[dirkgonthier]

What are you worried about?! Type 1 civilization?! While mankind will be very lucky if it's still around in 100 years, the way things are going now! Incredible! The way people dream and take their dreams as reality!

[noldyrallatep]

Philippines has a lot of deuterium deposit.

[mrdarkcrowm]

it finally did happen in the last month of 2022.

[jamesgibson]

Why don't we launch space missions from the moon. Wouldn't it be alot easier once every thing was in place as far as the launch tower, pad, etc? U could get faster speeds conserving more fuel that way too right?

[mankwongng]

Indeed human doesn't really build a artificial star, the nuclear fusion in stars is PP or CNO cycle, while the human made one focusing on DT fusion.

[CornratedGhost]

Oh my. So theoretically. An advanced alien species could create their own big bang. And let it all fall in place….😮

[JohnSmithoriginal]

You would need Need a water source. In Or a different type of fusion in space.

[garyhochstetler]

1:41 That is not accurate in the least. Stop lying to people in order to make it seem like net gain human produced fusion energy isn’t that difficult. We may never have fusion energy.

[PhoenixCrown]

Oh the arrogance of humans. Not saying this is literally impossible, but especially at 5:15, you gotta love human hubris: 'You basically trick it into thinking it's a star.' The universe is only 34B years old, but we've figured it out in a couple hundred!
The argument for using the magnetic force answers my basic problem with this concept, which is that we can't create that much mass/gravity on Earth. So why is the magnetic force supposedly easier to manipulate? Isn't it inherently connected the the electric field/force? Isn't gravity either a necessary condition or consequence of these forces?
I hope I'm proved wrong and we can harness this awesome power, but all of the "records" made in this department come down to "If you dump WAY more energy INTO the system, then you can sustain the system for longer!" Yes... but you're ultimately at an even greater net negative. So what is going to change this?