Canada’s New Invention Could Replace Power Plants Forever... It Just Hit 12 Million Degrees

In 1989, two scientists claimed they’d created nuclear fusion in a jar, and the world believed it, until nobody could repeat it. Since then, every fusion claim has faced a wall of skepticism. On October 8, 2026, a company from British Columbia announced that its fusion machine had heated plasma to more than 12 million degrees Celsius. It didn’t use giant magnets or lasers. It used something much simpler: squeezing. The result was measured with help from the UK Atomic Energy Authority. In this video, Walter Briggs tells the story of General Fusion and its founder, Michel Laberge, a physicist who left a printing technology company to chase a “star on Earth.” Walter explains how fusion works, why it’s so hard, how tokamaks and lasers try to tame it, and why squeezing plasma like a bicycle pump squeezes air could be a cheaper path. He also covers what’s still unproven, including peer review, the 100-million-degree goal and a 2035 power plant target. ⏱️ In this video: The cold fusion scandal of 1989, and why fusion claims are doubted What fusion is, and why it needs 100 million degrees Tokamaks, lasers, and the “third way”: magnetized target fusion Why a bicycle pump gets warm, and what that has to do with fusion General Fusion’s 20-year journey, near-collapse and comeback The 12-million-degree result, and what it really means 💬 Your turn: Do you think we’ll see fusion power plants in your lifetime? Tell me in the comments. 🔔 Subscribe for more true stories about Canadian inventions and the people behind them. ⚠️ Note: These results are company-reported and submitted for peer review. Commercial fusion power has not yet been achieved. #GeneralFusion #Fusion #CanadianInnovation #FusionEnergy #CleanEnergy #MadeInCanada #BritishColumbia #NuclearFusion #FutureOfEnergy #WalterBriggs