Michel Laberge: How synchronized hammer strikes could generate nuclear fusion

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2014-04-22 ・ TED


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Michel Laberge: How synchronized hammer strikes could generate nuclear fusion

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Prevoditelj: Ivan Stamenković Recezent: Ivana Gole
00:13
Wow, this is bright.
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Uh, ovo bliješti.
00:15
It must use a lot of power.
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Zasigurno troši puno energije.
00:18
Well, flying you all in here
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Za sve je vaše letove ovamo
00:19
must have cost a bit of energy too.
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trebalo utrošiti ponešto energije.
00:22
So the whole planet needs a lot of energy,
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Cijeli planet, dakle, treba puno energije
00:24
and so far we've been running mostly on fossil fuel.
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i do sad su nas uglavnom pokretala fosilna goriva.
00:27
We've been burning gas.
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Palili smo benzin.
00:29
It's been a good run.
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Bilo je to dobro.
00:31
It got us to where we are, but we have to stop.
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Dovelo nas je do tu gdje jesmo, no moramo prestati.
00:34
We can't do that anymore.
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Ne možemo to više činiti.
00:36
So we are trying different types of energy now,
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Zato danas isprobavamo razne vrste energije,
00:38
alternative energy,
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alternativne energije,
00:39
but it proved quite difficult to find something
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no pokazalo se vrlo teško pronaći nešto
00:42
that's as convenient and as cost-effective
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što je jednako praktično i isplativo
00:45
as oil, gas and coal.
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kao nafta, plin i ugljen.
00:47
My personal favorite is nuclear energy.
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Meni je osobno omiljena nuklearna energija.
00:52
Now, it's very energy-dense,
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Gustoća energije je vrlo velika,
00:54
it produces solid, reliable power,
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izvor je stalne i pouzdane energije,
00:57
and it doesn't make any CO2.
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i ne stvara nimalo CO2.
00:59
Now we know of two ways
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Sad, znamo za dva načina
01:00
of making nuclear energy: fission and fusion.
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proizvodnje nuklearne energije: fisiju i fuziju.
01:06
Now in fission, you take a big nucleus,
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U fisiji uzmete veliku jezgru
01:08
you break it in part, in two,
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i rastavite je na dijelove, prepolovite,
01:10
and it makes lots of energy,
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tako nastane puno energije.
01:11
and this is how the nuclear reactor today works.
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Tako današnji nuklearni reaktori rade.
01:13
It works pretty good.
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To radi prilično dobro.
01:15
And then there's fusion.
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A onda imamo fuziju.
01:17
Now, I like fusion. Fusion's much better.
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Ja volim fuziju. Fuzija je mnogo bolja.
01:19
So you take two small nuclei,
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Dakle uzmete dvije male jezgre
01:21
you put it together, and you make helium,
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i spojite ih zajedno, stvorite helij,
01:24
and that's very nice.
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to je jako dobro.
01:25
It makes lots of energy.
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To stvara mnogo energije.
01:26
This is nature's way of producing energy.
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Tako priroda stvara energiju.
01:29
The sun and all the stars in the universe
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Sunce i sve zvijezde u svemiru
01:31
run on fusion.
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pokreće fuzija.
01:34
Now, a fusion plant
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Sad, fuzijska bi elektrana
01:36
would actually be quite cost-effective
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bila zapravo prilično isplativa
01:38
and it also would be quite safe.
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i također prilično sigurna.
01:40
It only produces short term radioactive waste,
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Stvarala bi samo kratkoživući radioaktivni otpad
01:44
and it cannot melt down.
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i ne bi se mogla pregrijati.
01:46
Now, the fuel from fusion comes from the ocean.
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Gorivo za fuziju dolazi iz oceana.
01:49
In the ocean, you can extract the fuel
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Iz oceana možete izvući gorivo
01:51
for about one thousandth of a cent
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za otprilike jednu tisućinu centa
01:53
per kilowatt-hour, so that's very, very cheap.
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po kilowatt satu, dakle vrlo jeftino.
01:55
And if the whole planet would run on fusion,
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Kad bi cijeli planet pokretala fuzija
01:58
we could extract the fuel from the ocean.
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mogli bismo vaditi gorivo iz oceana.
02:00
It would run for billions and billions of years.
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Pokretala bi nas miljardama godina.
02:03
Now, if fusion is so great, why don't we have it?
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Ali, ako je fuzija tako dobra, zašto ju ne koristimo?
02:07
Where is it?
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Gdje je?
02:08
Well, there's always a bit of a catch.
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Ah, uvijek postoji mala kvaka.
02:10
Fusion is really, really hard to do.
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Fuziju je stvarno teško dobiti.
02:13
So the problem is, those two nuclei,
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Problem je što su te dvije jezgre
02:16
they are both positively charged,
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obje pozitivno nabijene,
02:17
so they don't want to fuse.
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pa se ne žele spojiti.
02:19
They go like this. They go like that.
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Idu ovako. Idu onako.
02:21
So in order to make them fuse,
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Pa kako biste ih natjerali na fuziju,
02:22
you have to throw them at each other with great speed,
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morate ih baciti jednu na drugu velikom brzinom
02:24
and if they have enough speed,
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i ako su dovoljno brze,
02:25
they will go against the repulsion,
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oduprijet će se odbijanju,
02:27
they will touch, and they will make energy.
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dotaknut će se i stvorit će energiju.
02:29
Now, the particle speed
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Sad, brzina čestice
02:31
is a measure of the temperature.
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je mjera temperature.
02:33
So the temperature required for fusion
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Pa je tako temperatura potrebna za fuziju
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is 150 billion degrees C.
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150 milijardi Celzijevih stupnjeva.
02:38
This is rather warm,
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To je poprilično toplo
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and this is why fusion is so hard to do.
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i zato je fuziju tako teško dobiti.
02:43
Now, I caught my little fusion bug
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Ja sam se zarazio fuzijom
02:45
when I did my Ph.D. here at the University of British Columbia,
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dok sam radio doktorat ovdje na Sveučilištu British Columbia,
02:49
and then I got a big job in a laser printer place
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a onda sam dobio veliki posao u laserskoj tiskari
02:52
making printing for the printing industry.
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gdje sam se bavio tiskom za tiskarsku industriju.
02:55
I worked there for 10 years,
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Radio sam tamo deset godina,
02:57
and I got a little bit bored,
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pa mi je postalo dosadno,
02:59
and then I was 40, and I got a mid-life crisis,
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a onda sam navršio 40 i ušao u krizu srednjih godina
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you know, the usual thing:
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znate već, ono uobičajeno:
03:03
Who am I? What should I do?
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Tko sam ja? Što mi je činiti?
03:06
What should I do? What can I do?
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Što mi je činiti? Što mogu učiniti?
03:08
And then I was looking at my good work,
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A onda sam sagledao svoj lijepi posao
03:10
and what I was doing is I was cutting the forests
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i ono što sam radio je bila sječa šuma
03:12
around here in B.C.
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ovdje negdje u B. C.
03:14
and burying you, all of you,
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i zakopavao vas, sve vas
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in millions of tons of junk mail.
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u milijunima tona neželjene pošte.
03:19
Now, that was not very satisfactory.
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Sad, to me nije previše zadovoljavalo.
03:21
So some people buy a Porsche.
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Neki ljudi kupe Porsche.
03:23
Others get a mistress.
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Drugi nađu ljubavnicu.
03:26
But I've decided to get my bit
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No ja sam odlučio napraviti svoj dio
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to solve global warming and make fusion happen.
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prema rješenju globalnog zatopljenja i ostvarenju fuzije
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Now, so the first thing I did
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Sad, prva stvar koju sam napravio,
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is I looked into the literature and I see,
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zavirio sam u literaturu da vidim
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how does fusion work?
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kako fuzija radi.
03:38
So the physicists have been working on fusion for a while,
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Fizičari se dakle već neko vrijeme bave fuzijom
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and one of the ways they do it
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i jedan od načina kako ju dobivaju
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is with something called a tokamak.
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je uz pomoć nečega zvanog tokamak.
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It's a big ring of magnetic coil,
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To je velika prstenasta magnetska zavojnica,
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superconducting coil,
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supravodljiva zavojnica
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and it makes a magnetic field
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koja stvara magnetsko polje
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in a ring like this,
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u ovakvom prstenu,
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and the hot gas in the middle,
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a vrući plin u sredini
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which is called a plasma, is trapped.
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zvan plazma je zarobljen u prstenu.
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The particles go round and round and round
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Čestice kruže i kruže
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the circle at the wall.
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oko stijenki.
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Then they throw a huge amount of heat in there
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Potom unutra dodaju veliku količinu topline
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to try to cook that to fusion temperature.
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kako bi pokušali to zagrijati fuzijskih temperatura.
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So this is the inside of one of those donuts,
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Ovo je dakle unutrašnjost jednog takvog torusa.
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and on the right side you can see
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Na desnoj strani možete vidjeti
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the fusion plasma in there.
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fuzijsku plazmu unutra.
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Now, a second way of doing this
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Sad, drugi način da se dobije to isto
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is by using laser fusion.
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je uz pomoć laserske fuzije.
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Now in laser fusion, you have a little ping pong ball,
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U laserskoj fuziji imate malu lopticu za stolni tenis
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you put the fusion fuel in the center,
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u čije središte stavite fuzijsko gorivo,
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and you zap that with a whole bunch of laser around it.
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a onda u to ispucate mnoštvo laserskih zraka.
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The lasers are very strong, and it squashes
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Laseri su vrlo snažni i zdrobe
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the ping pong ball really, really quick.
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lopticu vrlo brzo,
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And if you squeeze something hard enough,
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a ako zgnečite nešto dovoljno snažno,
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it gets hotter,
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to se zagrije.
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and if it gets really, really fast,
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Ako to napravite vrlo brzo,
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and they do that in one billionth of a second,
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a oni to rade u milijarditom dijelu sekunde
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it makes enough energy and enough heat
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stvori se dovoljno energije i dovoljno topline
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to make fusion.
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za fuziju.
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So this is the inside of one such machine.
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Ovo je, dakle, unutrašnjost jednog takvog stroja
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You see the laser beam and the pellet
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Vidite lasersku zraku i kuglicu
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in the center.
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u sredini.
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Now, most people think that fusion is going nowhere.
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Sad, većina ljudi misli da fuzija ne ide nikamo.
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They always think that the physicists are in their lab
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Misle da su fizičari u laboratorijima
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and they're working hard, but nothing is happening.
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i da marljivo rade, ali da se ništa ne događa.
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That's actually not quite true.
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To nije baš točno.
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This is a curve of the gain in fusion
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Ovo je krivulja postignuća u fuziji
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over the last 30 years or so,
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kroz zadnjih 30ak godina
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and you can see that we're making now
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iz koje možete vidjeti da danas radimo
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about 10,000 times more fusion than we used to
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oko 10000 puta više fuzije neko što smo radili
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when we started.
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na početku.
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That's a pretty good gain.
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To je prilično dobar napredak.
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As a matter of fact, it's as fast
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On je zapravo jednako brz
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as the fabled Moore's Law
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kao i famozni Mooreov zakon
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that defined the amount of transistors
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koji definira broj tranzistora
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they can put on a chip.
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koji se može smjestiti na integrirani krug.
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Now, this dot here is called JET,
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Ova točka ovdje se zove JET,
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the Joint European Torus.
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Zajednički europski torus.
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It's a big tokamak donut in Europe,
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To je veliki tokamak torus u Europi
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and this machine in 1997
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koji je 1997.
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produced 16 megawatts of fusion power
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proizveo 16 megawatta fuzijske snage
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with 17 megawatts of heat.
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uz 17 megawatta grijanja.
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Now, you say, that's not much use,
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Reći ćete da to nije od neke velike koristi
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but it's actually pretty close,
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Ali je zapravo prilično blizu,
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considering we can get
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ako uzmete u obzir da možemo dobiti
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about 10,000 times more than we started.
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oko 10000 puta više nego kad smo počeli.
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The second dot here is the NIF.
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Druga točka ovdje je NIF.
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It's the National Ignition Facility.
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Nacionalna ustanova za paljenje.
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It's a big laser machine in the U.S.,
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Veliki je to laserski stroj u SAD.
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and last month they announced
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Prošli su mjesec objavili
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with quite a bit of noise
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uz puno buke
05:40
that they had managed to make more fusion energy
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da su uspjeli dobiti više energije
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from the fusion
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fuzijom
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than the energy that they put in the center of the ping pong ball.
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nego što su je uložili u središtu loptice za stolni tenis.
05:46
Now, that's not quite good enough,
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To sad baš nije dovoljno dobro,
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because the laser to put that energy in
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jer je laser kojim su povećavali energiju loptice
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was more energy than that,
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trošio više energije nego što su dobili,
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but it was pretty good.
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no to je ipak bilo prilično dobro.
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Now this is ITER,
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Ovo je ITER,
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pronounced in French: EE-tairh.
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izgovara se francuski: [iteʁ].
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So this is a big collaboration of different countries
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To su, dakle, razne države u suradnji
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that are building a huge magnetic donut
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koje grade veliki magnetski torus
06:03
in the south of France,
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na jugu Francuske
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and this machine, when it's finished,
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koji će, kada bude dovršen
06:07
will produce 500 megawatts of fusion power
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proizvoditi 500 megawatta fuzijske snage
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with only 50 megawatts to make it.
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koristeći pritom samo 50 megawatta.
06:12
So this one is the real one.
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Ovaj je dakle pravi.
06:13
It's going to work.
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Radit će.
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That's the kind of machine that makes energy.
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Ovakva vrsta stroja proizvodi energiju.
06:16
Now if you look at the graph, you will notice
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Sad, ako pogledate graf, primijetit ćete
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that those two dots are a little bit
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da su ove dvije točke pomaknute malo
06:19
on the right of the curve.
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desno od krivulje.
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We kind of have fallen off the progress.
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Malo smo usporili s razvojem.
06:22
Actually, the science to make those machines
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Zapravo, znanost potrebna da se takvi strojevi izgrade
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was really in time
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nije kasnila,
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to produce fusion during that curve.
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bilo je moguće pratiti krivulju.
06:28
However, there has been a bit of politics going on,
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Međutim, umiješalo se nešto politike
06:31
and the will to do it was not there,
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i nije baš bilo volje da se izgradi
06:33
so it drifted to the right.
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pa se točka pomaknula udesno.
06:35
ITER, for example, could have been built
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ITER je, naprimjer, mogao biti izgrađen
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in 2000 or 2005,
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2000. ili 2005.,
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but because it's a big international collaboration,
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no s obzirom da se radi o velikoj međunarodnoj suradnji,
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the politics got in and it delayed it a bit.
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politika se uplela i malo usporila izgradnju.
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For example, it took them about three years
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Na primjer, trebalo im je oko tri godine
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to decide where to put it.
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da odluče gdje će ga izgraditi.
06:47
Now, fusion is often criticized
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Fuzija je često na meti kritike
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for being a little too expensive.
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kao pomalo preskupa.
06:51
Yes, it did cost
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Da, koštala nas je
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a billion dollars or two billion dollars a year
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milijardu ili dvije dolara godišnje
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to make this progress.
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da bi ostvarili ovaj napredak.
06:56
But you have to compare that to the cost
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Ali morate to usporediti s troškom
06:57
of making Moore's Law.
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izrade Mooreovog zakona.
06:59
That cost way more than that.
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To košta više od toga.
07:01
The result of Moore's Law
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Rezultat Mooreovog zakona
07:02
is this cell phone here in my pocket.
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je mobitel u mom džepu.
07:04
This cell phone, and the Internet behind it,
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Ovaj mobitel, i Internet iza njega,
07:06
cost about one trillion dollars,
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koštaju oko trilijun dolara,
07:09
just so I can take a selfie
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samo da bih se mogao uslikati
07:12
and put it on Facebook.
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i staviti to na Facebook.
07:15
Then when my dad sees that,
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Kad moj otac to vidi,
07:16
he'll be very proud.
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bit će iznimno ponosan.
07:19
We also spend about 650 billion dollars a year
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Trošimo oko 650 milijardi dolara godišnje
07:23
in subsidies for oil and gas
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u subvencijama za naftu i gorivo
07:26
and renewable energy.
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i obnovljivu energiju.
07:27
Now, we spend one half of a percent of that on fusion.
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Sad, trošimo manje od pola posto toga na fuziju.
07:31
So me, personally, I don't think it's too expensive.
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Ja osobno ne mislim da je to preskupo.
07:34
I think it's actually been shortchanged,
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Mislim da nije dovoljno financirano,
07:36
considering it can solve all our energy problems
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budući da može riješiti sve naše probleme s energijom
07:38
cleanly for the next couple of billions of years.
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na čist način za sljedećih nekoliko milijardi godina.
07:41
Now I can say that, but I'm a little bit biased,
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Mogu to reći, ali sam ipak malo pristran,
07:44
because I started a fusion company
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jer sam počeo fuzijsku tvrtku
07:45
and I don't even have a Facebook account.
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a nemam ni Facebook račun.
07:48
So when I started this fusion company in 2002,
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Kada sam započeo ovu tvrtku 2002.,
07:53
I knew I couldn't fight with the big lads.
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znao sam da se ne mogu boriti protiv velikih.
07:56
They had much more resources than me.
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Imali su puno više resursa od mene.
07:58
So I decided I would need to find a solution
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Odlučio sam da ću morati pronaći rješenje
08:00
that is cheaper and faster.
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koje je brže i povoljnije.
08:02
Now magnetic and laser fusion
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Sad magnetska i laserska fuzija
08:04
are pretty good machines.
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su dosta dobri strojevi.
08:05
They are awesome pieces of technology,
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Oni su zadivljujući komadi tehnologije,
08:07
wonderful machines, and they have shown
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prekrasni strojevi, i oni su pokazali
08:09
that fusion can be done.
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da se fuzija može učiniti.
08:10
However, as a power plant,
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No ipak, kao elektrana,
08:12
I don't think they're very good.
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mislim da nisu jako dobri.
08:14
They're way too big, way too complicated,
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Preveliki, prekomplicirani su,
08:16
way too expensive,
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preskupi
08:17
and also, they don't deal very much
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i također, ne bave se puno
08:19
with the fusion energy.
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sa fuzijskom energijom.
08:20
When you make fusion, the energy comes out
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Kada radite fuziju, stvara se energija
08:22
as neutrons, fast neutrons comes out of the plasma.
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u neutronima, brzim neutronima koji izlaze iz plazme.
08:25
Those neutrons hit the wall of the machine.
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Ti neutroni udaraju u zid stroja.
08:27
It damages it.
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Oštećuju ga.
08:28
And also, you have to catch the heat from those neutrons
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I također, morate hvatati toplinu iz tih neutrona
08:30
and run some steam to spin a turbine somewhere,
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i puštati paru koja negdje okreće turbinu,
08:33
and on those machines,
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i na tim strojevima,
08:34
it was all a bit of an afterthought.
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sve je to bila neka pozadinska misao.
08:37
So I decided that surely there is a better way of doing that.
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Tako da sam pomislio da sigurno postoji bolji način za to.
08:40
So back to the literature,
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Natrag na literaturu,
08:41
and I read about the fusion everywhere.
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i čitao sam o fuziji svugdje.
08:43
One way in particular attracted my attention,
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Jedan način mi je privukao pažnju,
08:46
and it's called magnetized target fusion,
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i zove se magnetizirana ciljana fuzija,
08:48
or MTF for short.
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ili MTF skraćeno.
08:50
Now, in MTF, what you want to do
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Sad, u MTF-u, ono što želite učiniti
08:53
is you take a big vat
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je uzeti veliku bačvu
08:55
and you fill that with liquid metal,
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i napuniti ju tekućim metalom,
08:57
and you spin the liquid metal
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i vrtite tekući metal
08:58
to open a vortex in the center,
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kako bi se stvorio vrtlog u središtu,
09:00
a bit like your sink.
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nešto kao vaš umivaonik.
09:01
When you pull the plug on a sink, it makes a vortex.
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Kada otvorite čep na umivaoniku, stvara se vrtlog.
09:03
And then you have some pistons driven by pressure
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I tada imate neke klipove koji su pokrenuti pritiskom
09:06
that goes on the outside,
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koji se događa izvana,
09:07
and this compresses the liquid metal
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i to komprimira tekući metal
09:09
around the plasma, and it compresses it,
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oko plazme, i komprimira ju,
09:11
it gets hotter, like a laser,
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postaje toplija, kao laser,
09:12
and then it makes fusion.
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i onda nastaje fuzija.
09:14
So it's a bit of a mix
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Tako da je to mješavina
09:15
between a magnetized fusion
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između magnetizirane fuzije
09:16
and the laser fusion.
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i laserske fuzije.
09:18
So those have a couple of very good advantages.
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Tako da imaju nekoliko dobrih prednosti.
09:21
The liquid metal absorbs all the neutrons
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Tekući metal absorbira sve neutrone
09:23
and no neutrons hit the wall,
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i nijedan neutron ne pogađa zid,
09:25
and therefore there's no damage to the machine.
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i zato nema štete za stroj.
09:27
The liquid metal gets hot,
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Tekući metal postaje vruć,
09:29
so you can pump that in a heat exchanger,
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tako da možete to utisnuti u izmjenjivač topline,
09:31
make some steam, spin a turbine.
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napraviti paru, zavrtiti turbinu.
09:33
So that's a very convenient way of doing
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To je vrlo zgodan način
09:34
this part of the process.
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za napraviti ovaj dio procesa.
09:35
And finally, all the energy to make the fusion happen
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I na kraju, sva energija koja se koristi za fuziju
09:39
comes from steam-powered pistons,
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dolazi od klipova pogonjenih parom,
09:41
which is way cheaper than lasers
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što je puno jeftinije od lasera
09:42
or superconducting coils.
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ili superprovodljivih zavojnica.
09:44
Now, this was all very good
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Sad, sve je to vrlo dobro
09:46
except for the problem that it didn't quite work.
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osim problema da ne radi baš.
09:48
(Laughter)
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(Smijeh)
09:50
There's always a catch.
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Uvijek postoji kvaka.
09:51
So when you compress that,
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Kada to komprimirate,
09:53
the plasma cools down
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plazma se ohladi
09:55
faster than the compression speed,
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brže nego brzina kompresije,
09:56
so you're trying to compress it,
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tako da ju pokušavate komprimirati,
09:58
but the plasma cooled down and cooled down and cooled down
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ali se ona ohladila i ohladila i ohladila
10:00
and then it did absolutely nothing.
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i nije se dogodilo baš ništa.
10:02
So when I saw that, I said, well, this is such a shame,
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Kada sam to vidio, rekao sam, baš šteta,
10:04
because it's a very, very good idea.
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jer je to jako, jako dobra ideja.
10:06
So hopefully I can improve on that.
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Nadam se da to mogu popraviti.
10:08
So I thought about it for a minute,
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Tako da sam mislio o tome koju minutu
10:09
and I said, okay, how can we make that work better?
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i rekao, u redu, što imamo da radi bolje?
10:11
So then I thought about impact.
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I onda sam pomislio o udaru.
10:13
What about if we use a big hammer
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Što ako uzmemo velik čekić
10:15
and we swing it and we hit the nail like this,
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i zamahnemo njim i udarimo čavao ovako,
10:18
in the place of putting the hammer on the nail
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umjesto da stavimo čekić na čavao
10:20
and pushing and try to put it in? That won't work.
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i pokušamo ga ugurati unutra? To neće raditi.
10:22
So what the idea is
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Ideja je da
10:24
is to use the idea of an impact.
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koristimo ideju udara.
10:25
So we accelerate the pistons with steam,
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Tako da ubrzamo klipove parom,
10:28
that takes a little bit of time,
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za što treba malo vremena,
10:29
but then, bang! you hit the piston,
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i onda, bum! udarite klip,
10:31
and, baff!, all the energy is done instantly,
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i baf!, sva energija se stvori odmah,
10:33
down instantly to the liquid,
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odmah do tekućine,
10:35
and that compresses the plasma much faster.
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i to komprimira plazmu puno brže.
10:37
So I decided, okay, this is good, let's make that.
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tako da sam odlučio, u redu, ovo je dobro, napravimo to.
10:39
So we built this machine in this garage here.
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Tako da smo izgradili ovaj stroj u garaži.
10:43
We made a small machine
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Napravili smo mali stroj
10:44
that we managed to squeeze
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iz kojeg smo uspjeli izvući
10:46
a little bit of neutrons out of that,
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malo neutrona,
10:48
and those are my marketing neutrons,
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i to su moji neutroni za prodaju,
10:50
and with those marketing neutrons,
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i s tim neutronima za prodaju,
10:52
then I raised about 50 million dollars,
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skupio sam 50 milijuna dolara,
10:54
and I hired 65 people. That's my team here.
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i zaposlio 65 ljudi. To je moj tim ondje.
10:57
And this is what we want to build.
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I to je ono što želimo izgraditi.
10:59
So it's going to be a big machine,
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Bit će to velik stroj,
11:00
about three meters in diameter,
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širok oko tri metra u promjeru,
11:02
liquid lead spinning around,
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tekuće olovo se vrti,
11:03
big vortex in the center,
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veliki vrtlog u centru,
11:05
put the plasma on the top and on the bottom,
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stavite plazmu na vrh i dno,
11:07
piston hits on the side,
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klipovi udaraju sa strane,
11:09
bang!, it compresses it,
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bang!, komprimirano je,
11:10
and it will make some energy,
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i stvorit će nešto energije,
11:11
and the neutron will come out in the liquid metal,
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i neutron će izaći u tekućem metalu,
11:14
going to go in a steam engine and make the turbine,
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ući u parni stroj i učinit će da se turbina
11:16
and some of the steam will go back
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i nešto pare će se vratiti
11:18
to fire the piston.
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kako bi pokrenuli klip.
11:19
We're going to run that about one time per second,
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To ćemo pokretati jednom u sekundi,
11:21
and it will produce 100 megawatts of electricity.
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i stvarat će 100 megavata struje.
11:26
Okay, we also built this injector,
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U redu, također smo sagradili ovaj ubrizgivač,
11:28
so this injector makes the plasma to start with.
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tako da on pravi plazmu na početku.
11:30
It makes the plasma at about
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Stvara plazmu
11:32
a lukewarm temperature of three million degrees C.
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na temperaturi od tri milijarde stupnjeva celzijusovih.
11:36
Unfortunately, it doesn't last quite long enough,
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Na nesreću, ne traje dovoljno dugo,
11:38
so we need to extend the life of the plasma a little bit,
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tako da moramo produljiti život plazme,
11:41
but last month it got a lot better,
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ali prošlog mjeseca poboljšalo se,
11:43
so I think we have the plasma compressing now.
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tako da mislim da imamo komprimiranje plazme sada.
11:45
Then we built a small sphere, about this big,
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Potom smo izgradili malu sferu, ove veličine,
11:48
14 pistons around it,
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sa 14 klipova oko nje,
11:50
and this will compress the liquid.
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i to će komprimirati tekućinu.
11:52
However, plasma is difficult to compress.
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Ali, plazmu je teško komprimirati.
11:54
When you compress it,
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Kada ju komprimirate,
11:55
it tends to go a little bit crooked like that,
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ona se malo zakrivi,
11:57
so you need the timing of the piston
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tako da trebate dobro
11:59
to be very good,
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tempirati klipove,
12:00
and for that we use several control systems,
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i za to koristimo nekoliko kontrolnih sustava,
12:03
which was not possible in 1970,
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što nije bilo moguće 1970.,
12:05
but we now can do that
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ali sad to možemo učiniti
12:06
with nice, new electronics.
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sa lijepom, novom elektronikom.
12:10
So finally, most people think that fusion
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Većina ljudi misli da je fuzija
12:12
is in the future and will never happen,
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u budućnosti i neće se dogoditi,
12:14
but as a matter of fact, fusion is getting very close.
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ali zapravo, fuzija je vrlo blizu.
12:17
We are almost there.
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Skoro smo tamo.
12:18
The big labs have shown that fusion is doable,
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Veliki laboratoriji su pokazali da je izvediva,
12:21
and now there are small companies that are thinking about that,
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i sada postoje male tvrtke koje o tome razmišljaju,
12:23
and they say, it's not that it cannot be done,
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i kažu da to nije nemoguće učiniti,
12:26
but it's how to make it cost-effectively.
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već se treba usredotočiti da bude isplativo.
12:28
General Fusion is one of those small companies,
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General Fusion jedna je od tih malih tvrtki,
12:30
and hopefully, very soon, somebody, someone,
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i nadam se, vrlo uskoro, netko će
12:33
will crack that nut,
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to riješiti,
12:35
and perhaps it will be General Fusion.
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i možda će to biti General Fusion.
12:36
Thank you very much.
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Hvala vam.
12:38
(Applause)
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(Pljesak)
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