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#353 – Dennis Whyte: Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy
Lex Fridman Podcast
Nuclear Fusion Reactors - What Are the Requirements?
At 10,000 degrees there's almost no probability of the fusion reactions occurring. This is because while the charged particles can hit into each other, they're pushing harder and harder apart. It turns out quantum physics comes to the rescue because the particles aren't actually just particles. They're also waves. You can treat them both as waves and as particles. And it turns out if they get in close enough proximity to each other, then the particle pops through an effect called tunneling. By the way, talk about do you have a hard time conceptualizing this? This is like throwing a ping pong ball at a piece of paper and then every 100 of them show up on the other side
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