Definitely watch the helion one. I don't think he's sponsored by them (he's required to disclose those types of sponsorship). Just very excited and grateful to have the opportunity to visit their reactor.
I really love the outside the box approach Helion is using in their design. I think it's extremely smart and creative. Whether it's a viable solution to producing energy is yet to be seen, but I think they're one of the startups with the most potential. I'd love to see your reaction to that video!
10:01 First nuclear engineering course I ever took in college (not a nuke engineer btw), prof said in our introductory unit about atomic structures and stuff like that is that we're doing chemistry without the electrons. Thought that was pretty funny
I would love to see a reaction to the Helion video! I'm really curious to see your response to both to their approach to fusion and their power generation method.
What's really impressive is that when reacting to these various videos, Folse very often pauses and talks about something that the video didn't say (yet) and after the playback is resumed the video then talks about exactly that subject. Just tells me that this nuclear professional is one step ahead in thinking all the time. Nice. I'm happy that I found this channel! Really cool stuff.
I have to say that I am extremely happy that the nuclear engineer also thought that a fission fusion setup might be interesting :). When I saw this video I thought the same. Wouldn't it make sense to use fertile fuels to utilise these neutrons for a greater heatoutput? I am not at all informed on the topic but I thought there are some fuels that are not able to produce chain reactions but with a source of neutrons would still peoduce power. I am not sure if the products would be better or not, but I am very interested in the concept of a fusion neutron source with otherwise unusible fission fuels, where both would create less problematic waste products than pure fissile fules
0:28: I remember the joke being "always 50 years away" in middle school and "always 30 years" away when I graduated college. Those were 19 years and 10 years ago, respectively. It actually seems like we're on track for mass rollout in the mid 2040s.