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Get out your Sam Cook records, kids… A Change Is Gonna Come. Fusor.net has been in business since 1998 – I think that's like several centuries in Internet years. Why, when we started this, it was all hand-cranked, remember? In the 15 years since its inception, Fusor.net has had three major incarnations. First there was […]

  Richard Hull with FusioneerJeanette Brown at the 2012 HEAS gathering So, you've heard of this place in Cambridge, Massachusetts called "MIT"?    Massachusetts Intitute of Technology. It's where all the really smart kids go to school.  The list of notable alumni is pretty impressive: Apollo 11 astronaucht Buzz Aldrin, current Fed chairman Ben Bernanke,

(originally published at Farnovision.com There's been an increase in traffic to the Farnovision site in the past week or so, which is quite possibly a result of the recent news that Philo T. Farnsworth – arguably the man who started it all – will be inducted next month into the Television Hall of Fame: This

The Braniac's version of "Friday Night LIghts" I just love stories likes this: Thanks to Carl Greninger and a partnership with Federal Way Public Schools, a select group of students are given the privilege of performing scientific experiments with Greninger's fully functional IEC-9000 nuclear fusion reactor. Greninger works as the IT operations program manager for

What do Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, New York City and Newark, NJ Mayors MIchael Bloomberg and Corey Booker, Russian punk-rock band Pussy Riot, and Fusioneer Taylor Wilson all have in common? The most recent issue of The Atlantic Magazine has named them and 20 other luminaries in its annual listing of "Brave Thinkers."

Seems our own Chad Ramey has been tapped as one of the must-see speaker/presenters at this year's Dragon-Con in Atlanta, held over the coming Labor Day weekend. The event is described as "four days, debauchery the likes of which would put Sodom and Gomorrah to shame takes over downtown Atlanta, as geeks from around the

There's a nice write up about another one of the younger Fusor builders, Ben Bartlett, at thestate.com.  (Apparently it's a Columbia, South Carolina newspaper website.  The site doesn't actually identify itself as anything other than "South Carolina's Homepage."  OK, fine, if you say so…)  Here's an excerpt:  Just how brightly does Ben’s star shine? Just

This past Sunday, April 1, 2012, CBS Sunday Morning ran not one, but TWO stories about the continuing quest for nuclear fusion. The first  was a serious "hard news" (they have to call it that nowadays because so much of what passes for news is just fluff…) segment by David Pogue about the National Ignition

I don't particularly care to keep spotlighting Taylor Wilson at the expense of the other outstanding Fusioneers of all ages from all over the world who are experimenting with the fundamental forces of the universe in their basements and garages, but when one of our number garners a mult-page feature on one of the most

As the host of this site, it has always been my contention that one of its under-stated goals was to encourage a new generation of experimenters to investigate the possibilities of fusion.  A lot of the veterans here are fairly certain that the Fusor will never be a meaningful source of useful energy on the