Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough; Powering Electric Vehicles; Carbon Capture | 60 Minutes Full Episodes

If it doesn’t look practical, take comfort in the fact that nuclear physicists don’t design things for efficiency and practicality. That’s the job for engineers.

When you fully appreciate the effort required to establish ignition, you start to realise how far away Fusion power is...

60 minutes has been serving incredible interviews without the hype. I love how Scott's witty and sharp questions dissect the topic so flawlessly.

After dozens of breakthroughs we are still decades away.

As a mechanical engineer, I did my small part in the design of this massive project in 1998 (25 years ago now). I designed all of the square-ish louver-like panels (shown in the background) on the inside of the large sphere shown at 2:31. There were about 250 panels. No two panels were alike. It was an interesting project. It is great to see that this project is beginning to fulfill its original purpose. This NIF project has two main objectives. #1) It is used to verify the effectiveness of the US nuclear weapons stockpile (so that we don't have to do actual nuclear testing in the Nevada desert anymore). #2) It is used to do fusion energy research for the (hopefully) eventual construction of nuclear fusion-powered power plants.

powering my whole house with fusion power for 5 years - Solar Panels

"It's why they use keys... " leaves keys on the keyhole 😂😂😂

The perfection of the target sphere reminded me of the struggle that Los Alamos team worked on back in WWII, in the development of implosion fusion.

We have been "Twenty years away" from Fusion reaction for the last 40 YEARS.

The gentleman narrator is excellent, speaking clearly & calmly in his nice warm voice

I have been a big follower of 60 Minutes for over 30 years and am glad to see they still keep a high standard in flushing out contemporary topics that are relevant to all of us. Of the 3 big topics I think the only one that has a high chance of success in the next decade is the Li extraction in the CA. The other two are at least 2 decades or more to be practical impact

Fusion power is one of those unicorns we keep looking for. We can't yet sustain a reaction for not even 1 sec. The goal is worth it. Only if I can be lucky enough to see it happening in my lifetime...

There is nothing as ephemeral as a youtube breakthrough.

36:00 In order to sequester CO2 like Iceland you have to have huge basalt areas so you can geo-lock it. Not always possible. I think making oil would be a good use of it. As far as fusion is concerned, "it will always be 20 years away" until some new physics is found making it a possibility of actually happening.

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In the late 1970s, I asked a Fermilab scientist when to expect commercial fusion power generation. He said it was 25 years away. Watching its progress, I find it is ALWAYS 25 years away. It likely still is and might always be 25 years away. On another note, does anyone really believe that the potential financial windfall for the lithium mining at the Salton Sea willl actually benefit the impoverished community already there? The companies will take the money and suck it to the top of their company management, some of which, it seems, will soon be in Australia.

Really impressive stuff and goose bumps at the same time how the new era of energy is almost here. But mainly and ultra importan a clean one. 😍👏🏼

Absolutely fantastic, been following this for years so glad actual progress was made

I guess I'll be the one to say it, fusion energy has been 20 years away for the past 60 years.

They basically proved that commercial fusion is ages away.