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00:00 Introduction to First Light Fusion
01:32 The BFG
3:00 First Light's Approach to Fusion
04:56 Inside The Control Room
05:34 How do you run a fusion experiment?
08:56 Fusion Inspired by Nature - The Pistol Shrimp
10:36 Machine 3 - Researching Scalable Fusion
12:05 The Projectile
16:11 Powering A Fusion Machine - Capacitors And Switches
19:32 Inside The Reaction Chamber
23:19 Firing The BFG
25:47 Conclusion
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
Fingers crossed they succeed. Very low on hype and high on results, what a breath of fresh air from a fusion development!
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Seeing inside facilities like this is what first inspired my interest in science and engineering. I loved every second of this trip, thanks so much to Nick and the First Light team for the tour. Thanks for bearing with us through the loud background audio, Ryan told me as we entered "this is a live fusion experimentation facility, expect noise". Hope you all enjoyed the video!
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I know a little about the team at FLF, and they're all fantastically passionate and knowledgeable. Something to note about their approach is that they really started with the engineering challenge, rather than the physics one. Everything they've done focuses on identifying the real engineering challenges for scaling up, and either focusing on those or eliminating them. If they are successful with their next machine, it is likely going to be easier to commercialise at scale their solution than many other concepts. But that isn't even the best thing about FLF's work - so much of what they're doing has other commercial applications beyond fusion power generation, potentially giving them a sustainable income stream until a demonstration power plant can be built.
Like all fusion contenders, it does have loads of real issues road blocks still in its future, but at least FLF seem keen to identify them early, rather than view it as a problem for the future.
For the curious - if I recall correctly, the demonstration reactor we see in the CGI footage is using molten lead, and is intended to operate similarly to a molten salt renewable plant - turn an intermittent heat source into a steady source of heat that can then drive steam generation.
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I feel confident in saying their approach will never lead to a commercial fusion reactor, but there is a lot of fun engineering in it.
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This was great to watch, thank you! The explanation of âit is a rail gun with one important constraint removedâ is such a cool and satisfying element of engineering: just when you think everythingâs already been invented, someone pulls out an assumption and unlocks a whole new approach. Brilliant!
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I love touring these "big science" facilities - always fills me with wonder and makes me proud to be human. I also bagged a shirt - awesome idea!
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Great video. Detailed enough to really get the interest going, explained in a clear non sensational manner and such that I will now have to follow this project regularly. :).
Obviously itâs brilliant that the team are so willing to show and tell in enough detail to be meaningful. I do hope we can have future follow ups on this as things progress đ¤ for the team !
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Seems like lots of expendable parts in order to create a very much non continuous fusion reaction. Turning this into stable continuous electricity generation seems like a huge challenge.
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I genuinely wish great success to these scientists in their endeavour. Changing a linear force into one englobing a spherical reaction kernel is an extraordinary feat.
Thank you Prof. Miles for keeping the scientific community up-to-date about these very important developments regarding fusion science.
Anthony
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While I can hardly imagine this working on an industrial scale, it has often paid off to give fringe ideas a chance.
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I have great respect for the âstart at the endâ design philosophy driving everything employed here - a viable power plant.
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As an Engineer, I find this stuff absolutely amazing. But I'm also prompted to say the same thing I've said in response to a whole bunch of other fusion videos. It will never happen because it will be more expensive than the alternative - cheap renewable sources of energy, plus mature, low cost and simple energy storage. May we forever spent lots of money on great science like this :)
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Credit to the team for trying something a bit different. Regards the burst disk - find someone to put it into cast acrylic (vacuum to remove the bubbles) would be a nice memento ... maybe with a bulb and a plug marked âOnly to be plugged-in once the grid is fusion poweredâ đđ
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Thanks for posting this longer video and for the First Light team for allowing you to film for us. Inspirational and an excellent example of the scientific process. Try fail, try fail, try fail...oh wait...that fail turned out to be a success! (the build up of carbon in the target chamber)
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Feels like a mix of Little Boy (gun-type initiation) and the compressive forces generated in modern (explosive lens) type atomic weapons.
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This is fantastic! I've been casually following FLF for a while; I'm very impressed by their commitment to simplicity and to engineering for the problem at hand.
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Fantastic this is what British science is brilliant at I hope they succeed !
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Great, fun and very insightful video. Loved Nick and Amelioâs explanation: clear description of what there doing in this awesome project! They all looked like theyâre having a blast (no pun intended) working there!
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Neat But I'm still half convinced this isn't about power at all but is about getting a UK MOD contract to provide data for development of their new nuclear weapons. It's a cheaper version of the US's NIF after all.
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@mbican
7 months ago
UK started with coal, steam industrial revolution that changed the world. It would be cool if they moved us to the next energy stage again. I hope they've still got it
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