

Fusion Energy Is Coming | Thomas Sunn Pedersen | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #30
Jan 10, 2022
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Introduction
00:00 • 5min
Fusion Is a Fundamental Game Changer on the Scale
04:55 • 2min
Is Germany the Worst Place to Be?
06:38 • 2min
Is There Private Interest in Fusion?
08:41 • 4min
The Advancements Are Mostly in the Theory or the Engineering Front?
12:33 • 3min
The Physics of the Spectrator
15:24 • 3min
Is That Really Used Today as a Diagnostic?
18:27 • 2min
The Challenges With the Statillator
20:41 • 4min
Is the Willpower There?
25:09 • 2min
Increasing the Field Strength of a Stellarator
27:14 • 4min
Eater
30:56 • 2min
Eater - The World's Largest Fusion Reactor
32:49 • 3min
How to Start a Magnetic Fusion Burn?
36:14 • 4min
Controlling the Reactor's Reaction Rate
39:46 • 3min
Fusion Power Plant
42:53 • 3min
Separation of Helium and Tritium
45:51 • 2min
Tritium Is a Rare Isotope
48:13 • 4min
Iter
52:26 • 4min
The ITA of a Stelowator Fusion Reactor
56:19 • 3min
Is a Fission Reactor Comparable to a Power Plant?
59:14 • 5min
The Problem of the Nuclear Waste in a Fission Power Plant
01:04:22 • 2min
The Engineering of the Fusion Power Plant
01:06:06 • 5min
What Are the Big Stumbling Blocks That You Need to Overcome?
01:10:40 • 1min
Fueling the Plasma
01:12:06 • 5min
The Problem of the Stellarator Is a Real Showstopper
01:17:04 • 6min
Using a Statillator Power Plant to Produce Energy
01:22:49 • 4min
Build in Margin to Take Care of the Risks That We See
01:27:07 • 2min
Is the Installed Power Better Than the Actual Produced?
01:29:22 • 4min
High Temperature Superconductors
01:33:01 • 3min
The Future of Fusion?
01:36:30 • 6min
The Magical Funding Ferry
01:42:23 • 2min
Is There a Commercial Rollout of Wind Farms?
01:44:45 • 4min
Do You See Interstellar Travel as a Realistic Application?
01:48:53 • 2min
Is Tridium on the Moon?
01:50:56 • 4min
Mining the Moon for Helium Three From the Moon
01:54:28 • 2min