Canada’s 12 Million Degree Machine Could Replace Power Plants Forever.

A machine in British Columbia just heated plasma to about 12.6 million degrees Celsius. Only months earlier, the company behind it had run out of money, laid off staff and was begging for new investors. General Fusion has spent more than twenty years chasing a different way to build a fusion power plant, with backing from Jeff Bezos. Giant government projects spent billions. This small Canadian company was almost written off. Then the UK's national fusion lab helped measure the result. In this video: how fusion works in plain words, why the machine nearly died, what 12 million degrees really means, the race against the giants, and the honest catches. Subscribe for more stories about what Canada is building right now. #Fusion #GeneralFusion #CleanEnergy #Science #Canada