Plasma Fusion
topic on 2 shows · 3 statements across 2 episodes
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Friedberg: ITER is spending $60 billion on a plasma fusion system
“There's a big research program in Europe called iTare. They're spending about sixty billion dollars trying to make the first demonstration system of plasma fusion.”
Friedberg: Terrestrial nucleosynthesis could become an industrial process within 150 years
“When you combine the unleashed energy potential of plasma fusion systems with the theoretical laboratory scale potential of nuclear synthesis that we see in labs today, And you fast forward a 150 years. I think it's theoretically feasible on a first principles…”
Friedberg predicts commercial plasma fusion energy will arrive by the 2040s
“I think the 20 thirties and the 20 forties are where this becomes real. And all these problems and concerns we have about climate change, and carbon in the atmosphere, all of this stuff can be reversed with infinite energy.”