What Will Fuel the Future?

It’s necessary for us to find new ways to produce energy without using fission or fossil fuels. Is replicating the Sun’s nuclear fusion here on Earth the answer? Could we mine the moon for fuel?

We have a question for YOU. What do you think will fuel our future here on Earth? Share your thoughts in the comments below!

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[imma]

This show is massively underrated. You deserve more subscribers

[mondo]

Hello my name is will and I am currently studying electrical engineering I love your points and elaboration on this topic however I do believe that there are alternate methods of producing green energy without the hassle of helium fusion and moon dust (although its a fun idea). I believe that the future of energy going to be hydrogen fuel cells at my college I was shown a demonstration of the ways they work and I am shocked its potential. I still have a lot to learn, but I do believe that some sort of chemistry will answer the energy issue.

[kokofan]

Even if fusion was working, fusion is large, complex, and expensive. In rich industrialized countries we might be able to afford it, once it's finely working after 30 years of being 30 years away, but in poorer countries the price tag is going to be way too high for people to buy the electricity. The fuel of the future needs to be both cheap and clean, and the only thing I see that can meet both criteria are generation IV fission reactors, particularly molten salt reactors.

[DakuHonoo]

thank you so much for not making this about stupid solar or wind energy

[Delosian]

I have always wondered why we cannot store energy from lightning. This seems like a battery size issue. A tower at the top of a mountain feeding into one or more tanks full of some sort of capacitance gel could then be drained of its electrons as needed.

[Mortagus]

For me we still have some good stuff to get from nuclear fission. I know for sure that there are teams working on molten salt reactor which I think are more promising in short term than fusion

[moosefactory]

I think one problem with nuclear fusion is that it still requires a very advanced centralized power station that has to run electricity through power lines and thus will lose electrons due to resistance. If the problem of energy storage can be overcome, solar panels is the way to go in areas of the world that have enough sun. Solar panels can be put anywhere, even in areas away from the grid.

[thecomputerperson]

So great, We will mine the moon, then the moon looses weight that then effects the gravitational pull that it has on the earth, affecting tides, we mine more and more of it until we don't have much of a moon left. Good thinking!

[davidk]

I think the areas where renewable energy is plentiful (The shores of Oceans for Wind power, ares that get tons of sunlight daily for Solar, places near Volcanoes for geothermal, areas near large rivers for Hydro-electric, etc), would be powered by that, and everywhere else would be powered by Nuclear fission, and eventually fusion.

[glennojordan]

Wow cool, I'm also looking forward to more kinds of fuel
In the future

[Unboundedominion]

Enhanced solar-voltaic collection and next generation of energy generation by efficiency (minimization of heat and low lost electrical transfer across power lines).

[Carl]

We already have a fusion power plant, check out National Ignition Facility Labs at Los Alamos, in California. I don't know why more people don't know about it, or why we are not using it for humanity. Maybe you can answer that question.

[project_X_design]

I think we need to stop burnin fuel. You should make a vid about what Earth would look like 100 years in the future if we keep making earth a big pile of trash.



May the force be with you

[BillyDillweed]

How about fission with U233 from Thorium? Check out LFTR and MSR.

[pistolp]

Good video, although I would argue that deuterium and tritium fusion would be better than helium-3.

[alphamoonman]

A man had one used water to make near-infinite energy on the level of using a machine the size of any muscle car's engine block, but made with small pipes only and having two containers consisting of a size and color of blue and your hand's circumference. Soon enough, the man was shut up by the FBI and then tried to give it to power companies. Then he was mysteriously dead by a gunshot wound. I'm not pointing fingers, but I'm hoping this won't be shot up either.

And what about that perpetual magnet energy generator? You guys obviously know about that. You have to spin it up, but once it goes, it goes for days. Great way to power a place forever.

[vangildermichael]

The idea about using H-3 from the moon for fuel is a great idea. And, I, suggest ' beaming' that energy back to earth with a laser. Research needs to be done to make a better laser, with less lost work, of converting the energy to light, and then back to energy on the earth side. And since the power station will be on the moon, where all the fuel is. Lost energy, in the conversion to light, will not be that big of a deal.

[hurktang]

A huge solar power generator in lissajous orbit around L2. There would be no limit on the size of the power generator.

[diewj]

The fuel of the future is sacrifice.
We wouldn't have so many problems really with anything if a few people wouldn't mind letting go of a few extra dollars that they don't need anyway

[Abenator]

The movie ''The time machine'' showed us why drilling on the moon is a bad idea.