Fusion Power Explained! | Dr. Dennis Whyte | EP 424

Dr. Jordan Peterson speaks with nuclear fusion expert Dr. Dennis Whyte. They walk through how fusion differs from fission, the harnessable energy found at the center of the sun, how to recreate it on earth, the fourth state of matter known as plasma, and facing the consequences of technology while acknowledging that we must push forward.

Dennis Whyte is the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, and prior director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center at MIT (He stepped down in November 2023). Whyte is considered a leader and innovator in fusion research, and currently leads the project SPARC - a compact, high-field, net fusion energy fusion device.

This episode was filmed on January 17th, 2024

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(0:00) Tour info 2024

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(1:03) Intro

(3:00) What fusion is and how it differs from fission

(7:06) The conditions under which fusion is possible

(15:34) Does fusion rely on chain reactions?

(19:00) It’s temperature, not energy

(21:27) What is actually happening to the atoms during fusion? A different phase of matter

(27:54) Calculating how much power results from fusion

(31:13) How to recreate the Sun’s temperatures on earth

(39:30) Magnetic fields and condensing hydrogen into plasma

(48:39) With physical isolation of the systems, where is the energy and how do we access it?

(58:30) Fission and fusion are not competing power sources, we need both

(1:06:56) Where are we really at with fusion? Timeline and likelihood

(1:19:18) What happens to the electrons?

(1:22:13) The end of abject poverty?

(1:30:03) Breakthroughs and optimism: “We have quite a world waiting for us if we’re sensible and fortunate”

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