Former fusion scientist on why we won't have fusion power by 2040

YouTube ^ | September 10, 2021 | Improbable Matter

[SunkenCiv]

I refute some very optimistic claims about fusion power and discuss some of the challenges in making this long-sought after technology a reality.

Former fusion scientist on why we won't have fusion power by 2040
September 10, 2021 | Improbable Matter

[SunkenCiv]

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Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking by Charles Seife

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[enumerated]

How does one become a former scientist?

[Jonty30]

We do have a shortage of dilithium crystals.

[algore]

[KTM rider]

I would like to see more experimentation with magnetism. For example I find it fascinating that It is magnetic at normal temperatures, but critical temperature (about 1420° F for simple carbon steel) also makes steel non-magnetic. But it doesn't become magnetic again until it drops to about 500° F

Nuclear reaction is over rated. They say the earths gravity is similar to magnetism, if so then does all magnetism, even small magnets apply to Einsteins theory of General relativity

perhaps there is a way to manipulate time as it passes through some sort of crystaline structure enough to create a "exponentially magnetic" power source, now that would be "The Philosophers Stone"

[KTM rider]

"How does one become a former scientist?"

That's easy these days, just go into Biotech

[FreedomPoster]

Fusion power has been 25 years away for the last 50 years.

[glorgau]

Commonwealth is the foshizzle.

[algore]

I thought everyone knew that?

But maybe they have recently replaced materials science with gender fluidity studies so who knows

While my oven will do that temp most of the metals I have ever melted were/are diamagnetic.

Interesting

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[Chad C. Mulligan]

The magnetic behavior of steels is well understood. The crystal structure changes at ~1420F.

I think a certain poster here on FR is going to be bereft.

[SunkenCiv]

He must have intercoursed up.

[SunkenCiv]

And just forget about getting hold of any trilithium.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708777/?ref_=ttgf_gf_tt

[Olog-hai]

We had Fusion GPS by 2011 . . .

[Clutch Martin]

“How does one become a former scientist?”

Retires, and within a few short years obsolescence creeps in and leaves them with the basic science, but the techological advancements places them behind the curve.

[sauropod]

bkmk

[Nateman]

...How does one become a former scientist?...

You die. Science often advances one dead scientist at a time. A fellow gets so much credibility that the prevailing wisdom can't change until that towering mind crooks . Mendeleev predicted elements and properties with his periodic table of the elements . This gave him enormous prestige. He was ,however , dead wrong about radioactivity. He simply refused to accept elements changing from one to another. His stubborn ways held science back until he was dead and could no longer torpedo anybody who disagreed.

[Nateman]

....I would like to see more experimentation with magnetism

You are not alone. Jules Verne and H G Wells had similar views. Experiments were done and electricity and magnetism became a well known subject.

If there is a Philosopher Stone in this world it is simply freedom and liberty. Once you get out of the way of great minds and let them work unimpeded they produce great things. The problem comes from little minds that think they are so great they can regulate and control the great ones and get Utopia that way.

[enumerated]

I was being facetious. I think the use of the word “former” here is inappropriate.

If you had died, using the past tense would be sufficient to clarify that. “So-and-so was a scientist.”

You don’t stop being a scientist, artist or musician when you stop being paid to be one.

[KSCITYBOY]

Yup