The Future of Fusion Energy with Fatima Ebrahimi

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🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Is fusion the future of energy and space travel? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-host Paul Mecurio explore the cutting-edge science of plasma physics and fusion energy with Fatima Ebrahimi, a physicist at Princeton Plasma Physics Lab.

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0:00.0	So Paul, finally catching up with what fusion is doing here on Earth.
0:05.0	What it's doing on Earth and where we're going to be.
0:07.0	Because I know what it's doing in the universe.
0:09.0	The Sun is plasma and doing fusion.
0:11.0	The whole universe is this.
0:12.0	How about on Earth's surface? We need it here.
0:14.0	We need it now.
0:15.0	And we need it locally and save money.
0:18.0	And when is it going to happen?
0:20.0	That's going to be something is it going to happen?
0:23.1	That's going to be something we're going to find out.
0:28.3	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:33.4	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:37.2	StarTalk begins right now. This is StarTalk begins right now.
0:41.6	This is StarTalk.
0:45.0	Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:47.1	I got with me, Paul McCurio.
0:48.0	Paul, what's up?
0:48.8	Co-hosting today.
0:49.7	Good to see you, my friend. Good to see you, man.
0:50.6	It's always fun.
0:51.6	Love you.
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