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Brace yourselves for an onslaught of newbies… WIRED magazine has just issued this article at wired.com that covers the full range of fusion experiments in the world today, and prominently features the work that our members here at fusor.net are conducting:  There is, however, a problem: Fusion doesn’t work. In hopes of changing that, international […]

This doesn’t really have anything to do with fusion, but most of the visitors and regulars here, in addition to being Philo-files, are also well aware of the contributions that Nikola Tesla has made to electrical science.  And this doesn’t really have anything to do with Tesla, either, except that his name is being used

Link: DefenseNews.com – Fighting for Fusion – 03/05/07 17:52. He completed low-power tests in September and October and began high-power testing of the reactor in November. After four tests Nov. 9 and 10, an electromagnetic coil short-circuited as electricity surged through it, “vaporizing” part of his reactor, Bussard said, and bringing his tests to an

… and this time from across the pond.  Physics Web, the online journal of the Institute of Physics in the UK, has run a very nice article about the Fusor and people in the UK and Ireland who are building them.  Comparing the Fusor to the humongous ITER now being built in France, author Edwin

This article in Today’s Science section of the New York Times  might be the most prominent, mainstream mention of the Farnsworth Fusor that I have seen in the more than 30 years since I first learned of the device myself on a hillside in Santa Cruz, California.  Money quotes: Other researchers already have working desktop

Link: starbulletin.com | News | /2007/02/18/. SAN FRANCISCO » In this city famous for the Gold Rush, a University of Hawaii researcher joined a former Apollo astronaut yesterday in touting the mining of a resource on the moon that holds the promise of cheap, clean abundant energy on Earth. The resource is helium-3, a rare

Link: Apple may turn to induction for iPod docking, charging. Apple Inc. is attempting to develop a revolutionary dock connector for handheld consumer electronics gadgets that will allow the devices to be docked in any orientation and, in some cases, charged wirelessly.

Link: Napa Valley Register | The Family Computer: Will streaming movies be next big thing?. It’s true the pace of change has accelerated, but this kind of  change is nothing new. Three big trends formed around Marconi’s invention of radio, Edison’s invention of motion pictures and Philo T. Farnsworth’s invention of the cathode ray tube,

Link: People’s Daily Online — China’s "artificial sun" discharged in transnational experiment. China recently conducted a transnational remote controlled plasma discharge experiment with its new generation "artificial sun" device, formally known as an Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), which has been built in Hefei, Anhui province. Through a dedicated data network, experts from General Atomics

Link: The Strange Case of Dr. Rusi Taleyarkhan. The Money Quote: It would appear that Purdue University has done a thorough and careful investigation of claims of research misconduct in the case of Rusi Taleyarkhan, the scientist who claims to have used sonoluminescence of deuterated acetone to produce table-top-scale fusion. In the spirit of scientific