Michio Kaku - Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough

Michio Kaku - Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough

[Dimythios]

It was his book "HyperSpace" was what won me over about him and physics because he showed us the universe with common language that anyone who can read would understand.
Thank you for all you have done for the Human Race.

[drew.h]

What a great time to be alive! Thank you professor!

[AloeHahh]

Past 50 years:

"New breakthrough in fusion!!!"

"Thats great!! So when will we be able to use it as an energy source?"

"Not sure ...."

[mjoscifi]

Love Kaku. His students are some of the luckiest and most promising people in physics and futuristic/plausible ideas. Always great to hear from him 👍 👏.

[markdustin]

Thank you for always doing what you do sir. Stay safe and may you have many more talks to come

[holeshothunter]

I have been waiting this for 40 years, It has gone "almost" this far many times...and mo farther. Ity has been said that repeating the same quest over and over after achieving no better results is the very deification of insanity. What makes you think it will suddenly work this time? You're MAD!

[stevefowler]

What my ears just heard: In thirty years we might have commercial fusion energy availability
What they told me in elementary school in the 60's: In thirty years we might have commercial fusion energy availability (a Ph.D. Aerospace Engineer who works for a large American defense contractor's Missile Systems company).

[dcan]

"The power of the sun, in the palm of my hand" -doc ock

[louf]

Michio has a great ability to speak about the extraordinary with candor and without pretention. Too bad the interview was so miniscule that it's basically a waste of time.

[clockworkpotato]

Hey, Professor! ITER is not "French". It is located in France but is being built for last 20 years by 15 countries! All big nations participate there.

[leahcimrelbats]

Like the prof said, "This is too good to be true." Fusion reactors have been 20 years in the future for 70 years. But, the returns are so great people are working at it. Machines that operate continuously at the temperatures of the sun have considerable engineering problems.

[fryu]

You know the energy companies are going to lobby like hell to keep this tech from being available to the general public.

[stephenjablonsky]

When I was a professor at the City College of NY I used to tell my students to take physics with Prof. Kaku. Few did, but those that did were delighted. I have watched many of his YouTube videos and enjoyed each one. Physics is an important subject, almost as important as music.

[con.troller]

They don't make it very clear in this interview but the breakthrough was getting closer to "ignition", the point where a hydrogen reactor gives off more energy than it consumes.

Instead of hydrogen plasma in magnetic whirlwind, they used a pellet of hydrogen heated by lasers. The process is hypothetically able to achieve ignition but this run only got to about 70%. As far as I know.

[dougyates]

I love Mr. Kaku! He is wonderful at explaining things in a way that we can understand. I have several of his books and I truly enjoy listening to him speak as I always learn so much. A great man.

[Pendula]

It was about time. Very nice and great job!

[janzzk]

ITER is an international collaboration of many countries including USA. It’s not a French project

[PedanticNo]

I remember listing to Michio Kaku as a child, he's a great, enthusiastic presenter.

[rg]

This National lab has a history of making announcements about its breakthroughs right about the same time it needs money. I miss the days when we had journalists that investigated. Now we’re left with clickbaiters yacking about with scientists who have stopped contributing to science and switched to selling books instead. Sad.

[vercingetorix]

When did the "football field" become the standard of length in physics?

Is there a platinum iridium standard football field at the US Bureau of Standards in Washington DC?

Just curious.