Comments by "Fumble_ Brewski" (@fumble_brewski5410) on "Does The Fusion Breakthrough Live Up To The Clickbait?" video.

  1. Ancient alchemists practiced (unsuccessfully) the occult art of transmutation, i.e., attempting to convert or transmute base metals, such as lead, into noble metals like gold or silver. The technical term for this practice is chrysopoeia (from Greek χρυσοποιία, khrusopoiia, "gold-making"). These attempts went on from Zosimus of Panopolis (c. 300 A.D.) to distinguished chemist Robert Boyle (1627–1691). Hopefully, modern scientists won’t take as long to recognize the futility of these “fusion” experiments. I hate to impugn anyone’s motives, but the question arises as to whether or not they keep making these “breakthrough” pronouncements as a stratagem to ensure the continued flow of funding. I’m no scientist, but it’s my understanding that nuclear fusion in our sun requires a temperature of at least 100 million degrees Celsius in order to allow the ions to overcome the Coulomb barrier and fuse together. In a solar fusion reaction, two light nuclei merge to form a single heavier nucleus. The process releases energy because the total mass of the resulting single nucleus is less than the mass of the two original nuclei. The leftover mass becomes energy. This process takes place in the core of the Sun as hydrogen is being converted into helium, where enormous gravitational forces, intense pressure and heat fuse hydrogen atoms together, generating helium and energy. So unless earth’s scientists find a way of duplicating said conditions in the sun, PRACTICAL nuclear fusion here on earth remains an ephemeral dream. Or, as The Doctor in Star Trek:Voyager once observed, “Divine intervention is highly unlikely.” Cheers and look on the sunny side of life.
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  2. Well said.
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  3. Goanna? Goanna ain’t no country I ever heard of. They speak English in Goanna?
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