The questions around finding viable source of fusion energy on Earth seem complex and technical. Actually, they are simple… and spiritual/metaphysical. It’s really a question about where we are on the arc of human evolution, and whether or not Homo Sapiens can ever get past its incipient ‘ape’ phase.
In the ‘aughts – the years after the first first fusor.net forums were formed and I was researching The Boy Who Invented Television – Richard Hull went even deeper into the history of the fusor research and development effort in the 1960s. At the time, Farnsworth was employed as the Vice President for Research at
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I was asked recently, “how did you get interested in this subject?” This is where the story begins, on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean near Santa Cruz California, on a warm afternoon in the late summer of 1973. I had graduated from a branch of Antioch College near Baltimore, Maryland, in the spring of
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When we discussed the future of Fusor.net at the HEAS gathering at Richard Hull’s home back in October, one of the recurring themes was: there is a wealth of information buried beneath the detritus of daily exchanges that one typically finds in the forums. This site has been in existence more or less for nearly
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by Paul Schatzkin October 1, 2015 What’s wrong with this picture? Tomorrow (Friday, October 2) I will be driving from Nashville up to Richmond, Virginia for the annual gathering of the HEAS – the High Energy Amateur Science club. This loosely-configured assembly of dedicated science nerds has gathered on the first Saturday of every October
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It’s always interesting to see what fusion research looked like in the early days…. …if for no other reason than because it affords some insight into just why, as Richard Hull (among others) is so fond of saying, “Fusion is 20 years in the future and always will be…” It is also intriguing to see
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