Dr. Edward Moses spells out the energy demands for a growing population with growing energy needs and then explains how his work with fusion energy at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) can address this problem. The video below is just a highlight of this very interesting 90 minute lecture.

From the transcript of Dr. Edward Moses' Talk on Fora.tv, Ed Moses: Clean Fusion Power This Decade :

Description of Heavy Water
"What is the recipe in the cook book? For fusion on earth? We have to take hydrogen from water, and you filter out the heavy water. So the time of the big bang, actually about one minute after the big bang hydrogen appeared in the universe. And there was two types of hydrogen. Regular hydrogen which we call hydrogen the other kind which is deuterium. And then there's about 1 and 7,000 water molecules when you go out to the bay that is heavy water. If we filter water and we place it in the oven and we heat it to around 200 million degrees Fahrenheit, for a few billionths of a second you can turn mass into copious amounts of energy. And it has no carbon and no waste. So that is the recipe."

The Collaborative Necessity of a Project the size of NIF

"So NIF fusion is in the news as you heard a little bit before. And I have to say, this is not a single laboratory activity. It is not a single discipline activity. It is multidiscipline activity. It's multilaboratories. Academia, industry. And international community are playing a big role. In fact, 49 out of the 50 states I'm really sorry North Dakota didn't play, the reason is the company in North Dakota is a woman owned company and she moved to South Dakota. We had North Dakota lost it. We ended up with South Dakota but not North. Okay. So this 3,000 vendor partners. And we have international partners all over the world. This is an international effort. And it has been flying under the radar screen. Most people don't know about it for a long time. Then we had dedication. I got to say this, when you are doing big projects, and the NIF cost around $3.5 billion put together and it took 12 years to do it, you don't do that on your own either technically or industrially but it is a political and a social event."

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