Flip vertically Commonwealth Fusion Is the Fyre Festival of Science

In this video, host Ashton Forbes explores unconventional physics concepts and provides a scathing critique of modern fusion energy development.

The Physics of Teleportation (0:00–5:15)

Forbes discusses Ken Shoulders' paper, "Teleportation Using EVOs," which posits that Exotic Vacuum Objects (EVOs)—high-density, toroidal electron-based charge clusters—can encapsulate matter.
He suggests that by using a high-beta, force-free plasma field to reduce an object's expressed charge, it could potentially quantum tunnel through physical barriers. Forbes links this concept to anomalous phenomena, framing it as experimental physics rather than science fiction.

Critique of Commonwealth Fusion Systems (5:16–10:11)

Forbes shifts to a harsh critique of Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) and tokamak-style reactors. He argues that their reliance on low-beta (around 0.1) configurations makes them fundamentally inefficient and "useless" for real power generation.
Citing work by Dr. Jay Young Park on high-beta cusp plasmas, Forbes asserts that an "optimal beta of one" is the only condition required for viable fusion power.
He labels current tokamak projects as the "Fyre Festival of science," claiming they are engineered to be technically functional but economically and physically impractical, urging investors to reconsider their support.

Note: While high-beta fusion is a recognized concept in plasma physics aimed at creating more compact, cost-effective reactors, mainstream development focuses on addressing immense engineering challenges like heat flux, material science, and neutron damage, rather than viewing low-beta tokamaks as inherently fraudulent.

Transcript

Teleportation using EVs by Ken shoulders.

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Well, well, well. Here we are.

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In the use of the word teleportation, there is no intention of evoking anomalous phenomenon when just plain experimental physics will do a better job of explaining the events measured.

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Neither does the author intend to invoke one of the standard dictionary descriptions as the movement of objects

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or elementary particles from one place to another more or less instantaneously without traveling through space.

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The method to be discussed here uses both time and space in a very normal way. The description of the method used

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in this writing will also be done without the notions of becoming entangled in the usual quantum physics

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entanglement world. The method will be described as straightforward transportation using the ability of

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EVOs, plasmoids as we know them, to effectively encapsulate nucleons into

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their structure and transport them through physical barriers

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by a gross reduction of the overall expressed charge.

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chat. Am I tripping or is he just basically saying if you produce a high beta field-f free condition, you can

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just teleport [ __ ] I think that's what he's saying right here. And I think the reason why he's saying it it works

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goes back to Richard Fineman chat. Why does my hand not go through the microphone?

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How come my hand doesn't go through the microphone?

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The reason is because there are electrons in my hand and there are electrons in this microphone and those electrons

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repel each other. Not just one, a lot, a lot of them. And they're repelling each other. They say no sir, no entry.

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So if you could reduce if you could do a gross reduction of the

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overall expressed charge of an object by encapsulating it and enshrouding it.

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Perhaps that would allow it to quantum tunnel as we have seen quantum tunneling is a real thing through spaceime itself.

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The other thing that I noticed from this paper and I can see why people dismissed Ken shoulders because he writes in a

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very normal way. I can tell you read between the lines. What is Ken Shoulder saying here? He's going, "Guys, I don't know exactly how teleportation works.

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I'm just telling you. I'm seeing it. I'm seeing something get teleported from here to over here. I don't care what you

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want to call it." He's like, "And it works in a normal way." When he says it works in a normal way, what does that

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mean? A normal way means to me I'm aiming this over here and therefore it's going to go and it's going to reappear over here.

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Now, this is a a reach admittedly, but to me, this is saying that I can I can direct my teleportation. I can get it to

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work in a normal way in our understanding of three-dimensional spaceime. If I wanted to go that way, I shoot it that way. If I wanted to go that way, I shoot it that way. Works in a normal way.

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So then he talks about some Russian papers. I was kind of surprised because this is it. I was expecting there to be like more pages on here. Um, what did he say?

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I should uh basically found that like this uh I was looking for something where it was trying to direct the the object, but I didn't find anything in

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this one. I don't think about directing it, but basically showed that there was some kind of vacuum interaction happening that was consistent and very similar to cold fusion that was

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occurring at least in the experimental setup that they were seeing this plasma ball of light. It would stay afterwards after the experiment and now you're

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saying okay why is this where's this energy coming from that allows this to happen?

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Um this also may be similar. This may be why we see, sorry to go on so many tangents here, the sonoluminescence.

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Why do we see this light appear? Because we're seeing this same kind of forcefree effect or cavitation effect, collapse effect happen,

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maybe interacting or sucking quantum vacuum energy out.

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Okay, let me see if I missed anything I wanted to talk on there.

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Okay. Oh, I had a couple quotes here I wanted to go through.

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So, from the Jay Young Park, um, where is it?

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Are you ready for this?

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Here's just a couple of the quotes I found relevant from the Polywell revisited

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because now I learned that Dr. Jay Young Park spent like over a decade I think at Los Alamos himself. So we're finding

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like all of these engineers worked at our nuclear weapons engineering facilities.

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Um here's a direct quote from his paper.

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Between 1974 and 1980, two groups at the University of Tokyo and the University of Naval Research

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Laboratory, US Naval Research Laboratory successfully demonstrated the formation of high beta cusp plasma using a

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highowered laser ablation of dutyium ice pellets in the work of Oh man. Kitsunat.

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Oh man, I'm so close. Hold on. Hold on. I'm gonna get it. Kitsun.

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In the work of Kitsu Zaki. Kitsune Zaki. See, I got it. A

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ruby laser delivering 500 to 800 megawws of pulsed power was used to produce a

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high beta cusp plasma in a spindle cusp with a 3 cm coil diameter and a 3.3 kg

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magnetic field at the ring cusp location. Experiments conducted at varying cus magnetic facilities uh

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magnetic field strength showed that both two low and two high magnetic fields reduced the confinement indicating the

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existence of an optimal beta of one. The last part was the key. Oh wait, oh sorry

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I don't have it up in front of me. So here's the rub. When your beta is too

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low, the plasma is too lossy, as they say. It doesn't stick together like they need it to. As you ramp your beta up,

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the plasma starts to stick to the magnetic fields like you want it to.

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Now, you don't want it to go too high because if you put that pressure up too high, explode apart. What you're looking for,

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and the key part of that, the reason why I read off that quote is that Dr. Park is telling us you want an optimal beta near one.

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Okay, chat. [snorts] Side side side comment.

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[clears throat]

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I get one fbomb, right? Children ear muffs.

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[ __ ] [screaming]

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Commonwealth Fusion chat. [ __ ] Commonwealth Fusion and [ __ ] anyone messing around with metal donut tokamac

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reactors. If you can't realize from what I'm telling you right now that metal donut tokamac reactors with their beta

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of like 0.1 are probably the biggest scam ever invented.

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I can't think of a scam better. The only scam uh bigger than I can think of recently is Fire Festival. This is like

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Fire Festival all over again, chat. I'm blowing the whistle on it right now.

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Commonwealth Fusions talking about they're going to hook their their metal donuts up to the grid. This is going to be beyond a Nerf fusion. This is like the dera leaked campaign.

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We got the homeless fusion coming out, chat. We get we get two our Q factor of three, chat. Oh, we're getting that over

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unity. we get 1.1% total over unity for we're going to get like the worst possible overunityity

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there is. They're going to literally engineer the thing to be as shitty as possible while still technically working

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because you can realize like just looking at the math this is just you can't it's not even in the same league

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as any fusion reactor with a beta of one. Not even in the same league.

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Okay, crash out over.

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God, I hate I hate Commonwealth Fusion chat. I hate them. I hate Bill Gates and I hate everybody involved with it. If you're involved with Commonwealth

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Fusion, get your money out of there. Or if they change and they stop doing Tokamax, then I will re-evaluate my opinion at that point.

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