Anyone know where we can see General Fusions 3/17 TED talk?

[mattman]

Hey,

Anyone know where we can see General Fusions 3/17/2014 TED talk?

Once they put it up, can someone put the link up?

[mvanwink5]

I asked GF for a transcript and was told TED will in due course (whenever that will be) make the GF presentation available, however, I am not expecting anything more current than what was briefly stated in the following article released the same day as the 15 minute TED presentation:
http://recode.net/2014/03/18/the-future ... al-fusion/

[crowberry]

Anyone know where we can see General Fusions 3/17/2014 TED talk?

I guess the GF talk will eventually show up here: http://www.ted.com/talks/browse?event=256&sort=newest
TED is releasing like one talk per day so it can take a very long time (months or a year) for it to be published. Because they charge 7500 $ for the tickets, they cannot of course release all the material at once after the event.

[crowberry]

There is a blog post about Michel Laberges TED talk here http://blog.ted.com/2014/03/18/a-new-pu ... t-ted2014/. The blog post is rather general in nature, which probably the talk also was. The blog post has some inaccuracies at the end, but you can have a look on this while waiting for the talk to be published.

[mvanwink5]

Thank you for that link.
It is beyond me that ML can mislead by not mentioning other fusion efforts. Here is the statement

He knew that there are currently two methods for producing fusion. The first involves a big magnetic ring; you trap a hot gas inside a magnetic field and heat it up into plasma inside the ring. The second way is with laser fusion — you shoot a bunch of lasers into the center of a sphere. Enough power from the lasers, and you can produce fusion.

[crowberry]

You should remember that the TED talks are maximum 18 min long, so there is not so much time to present the topic at hand. Introducing competing concepts would just take too much time in explaining the the ideas to a non technical audience. The easiest and fastest is to compare with the two most familiar concepts probably known by a large fraction of the audience, that is NIF and ITER. The whole point of MTF is rather well captured by comparing with those two extremes. The task of the fusion companies is to concentrate on their own concept and to try to make it work. I don't think they have a general obligation on teaching the general audience on all fusion concepts currently on the market.

[ladajo]

How do they line up speakers for TED?

[crowberry]

Michel Laberges talk on General Fusion is finally posted on the TED website at http://www.ted.com/talks/michel_laberge ... ear_fusion. The talk is quite general, but this is what was expected. He could have used the full 18 minutes allowed to put in some more details.

Laberge did mention the other small companies working on fusion, although he did not mention them by name.

[mvanwink5]

TED talk link also posted in the GF thread. In addition there is a recent article on GF that I had missed (April 14) that now has a link posted.

[mvanwink5]

Somehow I get the feeling that the audience can't grasp the significance of what GF has done and what we are on the verge of. They should have been on their feet cheering, and the solar cell and wind guys should have been weeping and wringing their hands. Not an Italian crowd, maybe...