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@NoXQsisRadioKC
May 24, 2026 at 8:06 am
It won’t work until after the believers in Christ have been taken home. Then you’ll have the biggest working fake sun you could imagine.You’ll catch your lighting in a bottle alright…then…Abba Father help you all.
@TechOs19
May 24, 2026 at 10:05 am
Amen brother. We can’t wait for the second coming of Jesus Christ our savior
@TechOs19
May 24, 2026 at 10:06 am
They are preparing for bible prophecy when the sun becomes dark and the moon becomes blood during the tribulation
@HWKier
May 24, 2026 at 8:11 am
Thinking about ITER, I just shake my head. How much further could we have progressed if all of that money had been spent on something more advanced and more practical? The world’s biggest boondoggle?
@peeyushkumar5923
May 24, 2026 at 8:18 am
The power of the Sun in the palm of my hand.
@nupurchapkxd
May 24, 2026 at 8:43 am
Next we have to make doctor octopus tentacles from spider man 2 lol
@Naruto-Uchiha724
May 24, 2026 at 10:51 am
@nupurchapkxd they are the easy part of the equation there are many companies working on it. We have jarvis level ai before we will have fusion
@davidsiaffa1709
May 24, 2026 at 3:25 pm
Lol.
@Royce16727
May 24, 2026 at 8:20 am
Can you guys do a video on SPARC? It’s being run by MIT, and it isn’t open source like ITER, but I think it does show a lot of promise. They’re using a slightly different process: smaller chamber, hotter plasma, more powerful magnets.
@h7opolo
May 24, 2026 at 8:33 am
with great tax funding shall come great auditing. This project is just a scapegoat for massive tax embezzlements. 8:27 even if the tech eventually works, it will hoarded by the rich to get even richer, not provided as a public resource. that is, unless we make a more equitable future.
7:23 “one fewer problem,” not “one less.”
@british-indian
May 24, 2026 at 11:43 am
Go back to school and study something rather than typing stupid comment and propagating your agenda. Am glad negativity profusely neglected by Scientists!.
@user-c1f9n
May 24, 2026 at 8:45 am
Given how we’ve polluted and harmed the enviornment; how we’ve heavily corrupted our spiritual, social, sexual, cognitive, and mental health; how we have historically used our power for mass killing, especially in the most self-conciously scientific age; how, for the first time in human history, we’ve created a way to utterly destroy civilization and potentially the species (i.e. nuclear weapons) and have barely avoided accidentally unleashing our arsenals, what could possess us to think that we at all have the moral maturity and wisdom to rightly use the power of a sun??
There is no more god-like pretensions on our part than the attempt to build an “artificial sun.” I mean that literally. For most of human history, stars were in some way, shape, or form equated or associated with gods. For much of human history, we have operated on the principle of idolatry: we construct a thing and then look to that thing for our sustenance, security, victory in war, and fertility. Ancient humans would use rituals to trap a spirit in the idol they constructed and seek to coerce that spirit into using its power to give them such things. Additionally, especially in the ancient near east, hills and mountains were understood to be where earth and heaven met, so that is where humans would go to interact directly with the divine. This is why those civilizations built ziggurats. They were artificial mountains with an altar and idols at the top. That was how we humans tried to ascend to the divine under our own power and artifice: we would build the mountain, drag the god down, trap it in an idol, and took a very transactional approach to it to get what we wanted. This was taken to such extremes that ritual cannibalism in human sacrifices became the norm for much of humanity for a very long time.
What we do with and how we understand our science and technology follows the same pattern; we just eliminated the explicit rituals and don’t understand it as manipulating spirits. The early fathers of modern science were well aware of this and were open and honest about it. Francis Bacon explicitly understood his enterprise as a “natural magick.” We construct these things using our increasingly esoteric knowledge of the material world and constantly pin all our hopes for a better world on them, often veering into utopian language. Fusion power is always described as “clean, limitless energy.” Limitlessness does not exist in the world in which we are currently living. Limits will assert themselves, and we won’t respect them. We’ll constantly be looking to circumvent them, to our ultimate detriment.
These are our idols, and not despite but precisely because of our belief in progress, we have become enslaved to the same the spirits as were the ancients. The pattern is the same as the one followed by ancient peoples, and we are already willing to sacrifice other humans for this vaunted progress through economic and literal warfare, through industrial “sacrifice zones”, and many other crimes. Even the mere attempt to pull this off is the height of hubris, folly, and wickedness.
Enjoy your sun, but don’t fly too close.
@jimmock1155
May 24, 2026 at 8:55 am
Most totally disregard the spiritual and basic human nature.
@wlsn77
May 24, 2026 at 11:21 am
Seek help bro.
@imatimetraveler5760
May 24, 2026 at 8:59 am
I’m starting to think they’re making the power of the sun because they know something 🤔
@dsjjmv7546
May 24, 2026 at 9:46 am
Yes they know we cant keep using fossil fuels for energy and solar and wind are not sufficient.
@treezybeats602
May 24, 2026 at 8:59 am
Rip to us all
@kyoono1771
May 24, 2026 at 9:01 am
Fake?
@TechOs19
May 24, 2026 at 10:02 am
Don’t play God yallb
@FortuneOnyeachonam-ps4zw
May 24, 2026 at 10:07 am
2034 is crazy
@J.J.A.S
May 24, 2026 at 10:10 am
Excelente video, gracias por el audio en español ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@mr._j1381
May 24, 2026 at 11:41 am
carrot on a stick, nuclear power works NOW, are they trying first to manufacture 0 gravity environment then use some other process similar power nuclear power could be doing now, all the funding we could have built how many Nuclear power plants? and some countries are attacking each other for oil and energy? we have 0 emissions alternative and instead we get windmills and solar farms killing millions of birds, and brainwashing unsuccessful campaigns? FF clean war free nuclear power will work NOW.
@abinjoseph9808
May 24, 2026 at 11:46 am
they are going at french speed, always 20 years away
@ME2K23
May 24, 2026 at 2:30 pm
You surely mean, 20 years before the others, since no one had such a reactor working for the last 20 years…
@abinjoseph9808
May 24, 2026 at 2:32 pm
@ME2K23yea but the effort is worth it😊
@gabmano4877
May 24, 2026 at 11:55 am
Soooooo Europe Is not that far behind when it comes to strategic high end technology, good.
@Sagar.Kumbalkar
May 24, 2026 at 12:06 pm
8:24 Siri ???
@NATHANSALAMI-m8x
May 24, 2026 at 12:15 pm
when doctor octopus to create a his artificial solar technology to result a largest disaster until spiderman arrived to saving him 😅🎉
@KeithBarnett
May 24, 2026 at 12:53 pm
I’m just amazed at it all. Even the construction of the place.
@ME2K23
May 24, 2026 at 2:25 pm
The nation that will get the following 1st will quickly rule the world: AI running on Quantum computer powered by infinite power of nuclear fusion …
@malcolmorrall8338
May 24, 2026 at 3:56 pm
What an outstanding and deeply informative presentation of the material. There are so many aspects to this technology that are very difficult to explain in plain language but this presentation is wonderfully clear and concise. plasma physics was one of my concentrations in. college, and I feel smarter for having such a clear summarization. And, I feel like I’ve been there. An excellent piece. Thank you!
@hikalox
May 24, 2026 at 6:41 pm
I’m looking forward to the development of Future energy.
@CraigS-l7q
May 24, 2026 at 7:03 pm
Craig, “LOVES WHAT FUSION CAN and WILL DO in the STEM field and UNITED STATES of AMERICA.”
😂😂😂😂😂😂 Craig.
@SoCalFreelance
May 24, 2026 at 7:20 pm
3:56 How can I get one of those models? 🤓
@rickintexas1584
May 24, 2026 at 8:43 pm
Fusion is 30 years away from producing usable electricity.
@G.D.Acosta
May 25, 2026 at 1:33 am
So what are we doing with all that energy??
Not boiling water, right?
RIGHT?!
@ryanthompson3737
May 25, 2026 at 9:07 am
Good news, there’s also development and early commercial applications of supercritical CO2 turbines which uses CO2 as the working fluid instead of water. It actually makes the turbine smaller and adds 5% – 10% to the efficiency for an end product that can be over 50% efficient compared to the 35% – 45% of steam versions.
@RalphEboy-q2w
May 25, 2026 at 1:52 am
These people are going to end up killing us all
@ryanthompson3737
May 25, 2026 at 8:55 am
…If there’s a catastrophic failure at a nuclear fission plant, the reaction just…. stops. It doesn’t blow up, it burns out. If an oil plant is bombed, there’s a centuries long environmental catastrophe.. if a nuclear fission plant is bombed, it’s literally just damaged buildings and no environmental damage.
@Conceptsofaplan8647
May 25, 2026 at 7:12 pm
That’s what fossil fuels are for
@Mark-qi2jw
May 25, 2026 at 3:17 am
ITER was supposed to be in operation by 2016 and cost less than 10 billion dollars. Now it won’t operate at all until 2035, and we won’t see any D–T experiments until well past 2040 — and of course, those dates are subject to revision (very likely, considering the project’s track record). And the costs? Nobody knows the real numbers; they are a well-guarded secret (probably because they’re embarrassing for ITER management…). But good estimates put the final construction cost in the 100-billion-dollar range. And then there will be the operational costs, which will be enormous. So a project that should have started delivering results ten years ago, at a reasonable cost — and that might have had some merit (although it’s debatable whether it was the best strategy from the beginning, but let’s leave that aside) —has become a doomed effort: poorly designed, even more poorly managed, arriving far too late and almost certain to fall well short of its promises. It is remarkable—though hardly surprising—how those involved continue to project an air of accomplishment, much as their predecessors did. After all, everyone has families to support and generous pensions to protect.
@jamesgreen2495
May 25, 2026 at 4:03 am
Have to say seeing this is pretty amazing. Did not know about it. Thanks for sharing.
@airingcupboard
May 25, 2026 at 4:11 am
It’s not going to be finished or be fast enough to deploy at scale to help prevent significant climate change sadly.
@cletp758
May 25, 2026 at 7:45 am
Yes it’s amazing what we can do. But we still need the basic things to live. We over consuming & not focusing on what matters. We have had all we needed to make everyone live a good comfortable life. We’ve just lost our way & focusing on money/profit, interest.
@ryanthompson3737
May 25, 2026 at 8:59 am
EVERYTHING comes down to energy. Make energy cheaper and safer and everything else gets cheaper along with it… setting aside corporate greed and all that. Humans are TERRIBLE at labour, and I mean that compared to every other animal on the planet.. even insects. We excel at using our brain.. thats what we evolved to specialize in. The cheaper and more accesible we can get energy, the cheaper it becomes to produce and operate automation tools that produce the things we need to live CHEAPER. All of these price increases on the basics is corporate greed… PERIOD. Look at a graph of the inflation accounted cost of various different products and ALL luxury items have fallen off a cliff while ALL basic needs have been driven up a mountain. That’s no coincidence, and it has nothing to do with developing an objectively superior energy generation system.
@WhatThisVideo-WTv
May 25, 2026 at 9:53 am
> creates artificial sun on earth
> uses it to boil water
@UtkarshKumar-xd7fv
May 25, 2026 at 9:54 am
Ryan gosling What are you doing here 😊
@SamuelGemette
May 25, 2026 at 10:13 am
He’s cute 😚
@Nakamata-x4t
May 25, 2026 at 11:35 am
Fasterrrr
@sdotg
May 25, 2026 at 12:11 pm
What a great video! Great graphics to explaining everything. Thanks for the hard work doing it. Looking forward for the next one
@Siddhartha-Youtube
May 25, 2026 at 12:53 pm
Is this fusion power plant started for testing? What is it speciality? Will they use hydrogen isotopes instead of nuclear fusion reactions?
@DJaquithFL
May 25, 2026 at 12:57 pm
Please God show them the light and have them go to thorium reactors there’s enough energy for the next hundred-thousand years, which would be barely enough time for them to finally figure out fusion!
@D4N13Zz
May 25, 2026 at 1:22 pm
When De-Bunking the Natural given unto All..All Grace of the Creator nd Universe that were gifted unto All..Will Be Removed..You Chosen Wrongly to Incorporate Yourselvez as God the Creator..nd have thrown Out the Lawz of thus passed Down to our primitive gain less ant like puff in time…given unto thiz World to appreciate operations running smoothly..by Not of thiz 😅 World..Thiz Should Not be Taken Lightly….HOPEFULLY YOU HAVE ASKED PERMISSION FROM THE UNIVERSE WHOM GOVERNZ FOR THE CREATOR..IF NOT WE ARE ALL DOOMED..ND BEING EJECTED OUT OF PLANETARY PRECISION OF CALCULATED ALIGNMENT..LIKE THAT OF A PINBALL MACHINE..THEN GAME OVER..GOOD GRIEF
@D4N13Zz
May 25, 2026 at 1:23 pm
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@urbanstrencan
May 25, 2026 at 1:24 pm
Great to see new developments, but we are waiting for the next big step for past 30 years 😮
@xalspaero
May 25, 2026 at 2:27 pm
helion thinks they’ll have it by 2028. i’ll believe it when i see it.
@beyondfossil
May 26, 2026 at 5:08 pm
I’m with you. Helion will not even come close to their claimed 50MW production fusion power plant by 2028! Not even by 2038 from their current design, or ever.
Worse, Helion will be an ultra-hyped failure and yet another black eye for the fusion research community, which then hurts fusion’s credibility worldwide. The fact that Sam Altman is a major investor and on the board at Helion tells us a lot. Altman has a pattern of overhyping to get funding and is apparently good at selling snake oil.
@beyondfossil
May 26, 2026 at 5:11 pm
…continued
In the end, Helion trades the problem of sustained burning plasma for larger challenges of pulsed fusion. But pulsed fusion faces titanic challenges in recovering large energy peaks from such short-lived pulses at 1Hz. The actual fusion occurs in just microseconds, so it can produce millions of amps of current. That will absolutely wreck their equipment, as the high di/dt produces extremely strong Lorentz forces that physically kick the cables and capacitors. Then they need to perform these pulses 86,400 times a day, every day, to maintain their stated goal of a 50MW fusion power plant.
But they don’t even get to that part because they don’t have the necessary fuel. Instead of the typical tritium, Helion uses an extremely rare helium isotope, He3. But this fuel mixture requires _multiple_ times the heat to fuse at temperatures already insane for tritium, at 100 million ℃. There’s no way they can create the amounts of He3 by 2028. Even if they did, they’d be in a deep hole of money and energy. But the whole point of a fusion power plant is to create both net positive energy and revenue!
@beyondfossil
May 26, 2026 at 5:13 pm
…continued
There are further problems down the line, too many to mention here. But a fairly obvious downstream problem is that Helion’s 1Hz pulsing on the grid will destabilize the grid through frequency & voltage ramping and harmonics. No grid operator will allow such behavior on their grid, and Helion has not addressed how they will smooth out their power flows. But it would require a warehouse full of very expensive capacitors to even come close, all while they take a nonstop beating. You can tell Helion isn’t even planning on success in 2028, but just getting funding.
@PoliticalBearNation
May 25, 2026 at 2:50 pm
This is exactly how the world should function, not just energy but as many things as possible. Can’t wait until 2034.
@JesseOrrall
May 26, 2026 at 2:39 pm
Thanks for watching!
@jrderun3554
May 25, 2026 at 3:01 pm
I always saw myself as the responsible type. Paid bills early, worked hard, saved a bit every month. After reading Smart Broke Dumb Rich by Zor Veyl I realized I was just a well behaved poor person following rules made to keep me there forever.
@павеладулов
May 25, 2026 at 3:30 pm
Reading Smart Broke Dumb Rich by Zor Veyl hit me hard. I finally understood my parents were not bad with money. They just never got the right information. The game was rigged before they even started.
@off7226
May 25, 2026 at 3:41 pm
My cousin laughed at me for reading Smart Broke Dumb Rich by Zor Veyl. Funny thing is he asked to borrow money again last month. I said no without any guilt this time.
@Kolon55
May 25, 2026 at 3:47 pm
I used to believe rich people were lucky or corrupt. After reading Smart Broke Dumb Rich by Zor Veyl I see it is mostly financial literacy. The kind they deliberately keep out of schools so regular people stay stuck.
@Hosna22Shreed22-e7r
May 25, 2026 at 3:48 pm
Three months after reading Smart Broke Dumb Rich by Zor Veyl my whole language around money changed. I stopped saying I cant afford that and started asking why I cant afford that. That tiny shift is already opening new doors.
@swmann2
May 25, 2026 at 6:22 pm
Lol AMFN already has the Texatron fusion reactor coming out by the end of this year
@sagarr124
May 25, 2026 at 7:41 pm
Clicked because I thought he was Ryan Gosling 😅
@AdonisJavierRD
May 25, 2026 at 9:51 pm
What’s the purpose of this though??
@JesseOrrall
May 26, 2026 at 2:45 pm
0:59
@NorthArgus
May 25, 2026 at 10:18 pm
This technology promises nearly unlimited cheap energy. Right. It’ll only be cheap for the energy companies. Do you really believe they’ll pass on those savings to the average consumer at the expense of the potential for obscene profits? Yeah, I got a tokamak to sell you.
@paulkelly4731
May 25, 2026 at 10:24 pm
2034? Sounds more like a retirement vehicle than energy solution. If Fusion ever happens, it’ll be a small, no name startup, not a beauracratic, bloated Government sponsored waste of money project
@Alexrmacleod
May 25, 2026 at 10:39 pm
rylen grace pre
@Ai-and-business
May 25, 2026 at 10:51 pm
waste of money
@blessukashish
May 26, 2026 at 2:33 am
Ryan Gosling, Hun!
What u r doing here?
@JesseOrrall
May 26, 2026 at 5:44 pm
Visiting the world’s largest fusion reactor! 🌞
@benmcreynolds8581
May 26, 2026 at 8:09 am
I fully believe that we should already be utilizing Nuclear energy by now. Too many people think of Nuclear energy as something negative but our capabilities have massively improved. So many areas of the nuclear sector have improved, it’s just not commonly known. There’s so much potential with-in nuclear energy just sitting there, not being used. I hope the US will embrace Nuclear energy because it really could improve our future. We are using alternative energy options but a lot of our energy grid is still dependent on fossil fuels. Humanity will be better off once we commit to a new wave of modern advanced nuclear energy options. Our government has been holding us back. They’ve been way too restrictive. They won’t change out dated Bureaucratic hurdles that are one of the biggest things that is blocking progress within this energy sector. This stuff has been blocking the progress of our energy grid for decades now. They don’t directly say it out loud but it seems like America wants things to stay exactly how they are right now. So our government has found creative ways of making progress a nearly impossible achievement.
People keep saying: “If Thorium reactors really are amazing, then why don’t we see them anywhere?” ~The reason that’s true is: Here in America we have blocked our progress with a unadaptable, outdated regulatory system & they have repeatedly denied the approval of nuclear permits.
I hope we start using Small Modular Nuclear Energy options because it will help provide power for projects out in remote locations that are currently completely dependent on diesel generators ⛽
Additionally to nuclear power, Having Fresh water is one of the most important things.. So we should build desalination plants in areas that need it & power it with nuclear energy. I know desalination demands a lot of energy so we could utilize nuclear energy to provide energy for desalination. The potential for positive uses is massive.
@Aerospace_Education
May 26, 2026 at 11:37 am
Why would you build an operations center with monitors if first estimate fusion is 2034? I’m actually sad it’s that long from now. Thought they were further ahead than that.
@JesseOrrall
May 26, 2026 at 5:46 pm
The original plan was to be ready by now, but they hit some major delays (some of which I touch on in the video)
@discob61350
May 26, 2026 at 5:12 pm
is that you seananners?
@SSS-mp8th
May 26, 2026 at 5:56 pm
Anyone else not want fusion to be in the hands of companies? lets stick with academics and countries.
@Jehayland
May 26, 2026 at 6:48 pm
Love to hear folks talking about fusion. That being said, I’m not spending a lot of personal mental energy thinking about it since the time horizons are so long for commercial practicality. I get that it’s closer than ever before, but still, I’ll believe it when I see it. Until then, I think we need to give real thought to upping our use of modern fission reactors to bridge the gap.
@davidgladden8016
May 26, 2026 at 9:27 pm
lol, I thought the thumbnail was a clickbait reference to the Beasty Boys Intergalactic video. 😂