A question, I know, that for some people is like asking “do you spend much time breathing? Well, no, not voluntarily…. If you are one of those people whose involuntary reflexes include frequent glances at the infinite trivia generator known as “Facebook,” then consider taking a look at the Fusor Builders group there. The group is […]
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Last week I drove back up to Virginia (I was in Richmond for HEAS earlier in the month) to spend a day with Doug Coulter. I’ve known of Doug for several years, and have occasionally looked in on his website, where he has made a concerted effort to focus and elevate the “open source” discussion
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. ..chimes in on the story we’ve been following for a couple of weeks, with it’s own story about Start-Ups Take On Challenge of Nuclear Fusion This is pretty much old news, finally being reported in the nation’s “paper of record,” so I guess that makes it official: “The fusion era is here and coming,”
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…it’s on the cover of TIME Magazine this week. I discovered last night that the cover story of this coming week’s edition of TIME Magazine (dated Nov 2, 2015) is all about the quest for fusion – which is suddenly a hot topic now that it’s starting to attract all kinds of Silicon Valley, tech-titan,
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There’s been a lot in the cultural firmament this month about the second “Back To The Future” movie – the one where Marty and Doc Brown fly in the DeLorean time machine – now powered by a “Mr. Fusion” reactor – to the date of October, 21, 2015. They arrive at a time where not
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I have been taking exception lately to the notion that “Fusion is the energy of the future and always will be.” For starters, while the line is clever verbiation (don’t bother looking it up, I just made that one up), it is also something of a self-defeating prophesy. As the protagonist (who just happens to
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