OK, maybe “news” is stretching it a bit, since this story has been in the works since October. But it does appear in the Washington Post, which legend has it is still a ‘news’paper… The image atop this post is a composite of 8 portraits that were photographed at Richard Hull’s 2015 High Energy Amateur …
I dunno, maybe because most of the money seems to get siphoned off for the biggest, most cumbersome, complex, and costly (the 3-Cs of most fusion research) schemes and machines money can buy (and the bloated scientific staffs that build them) to solve what is essentially a simple challenge? Why Nuclear Fusion Is Always 30 Years …
No surprise here: The multibillion-dollar ITER fusion project will take another 6 years to build beyond the—now widely discredited—official schedule, a meeting of the governing council was told this week. ITER management has also asked the seven international partners backing the project for additional funding to finish the job. via ITER fusion project to take …
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 …
. ..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,” …
…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, …
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 …
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 …
… we really are going to need shades… Imagine being dropped into the middle of an episode of “The Big Bang Theory.” Then imagine taking LSD. Then imagine that the episode runs for like 12 or 14 hours… Now you’ve got some idea what this past Saturday was like for me… The occasion was the 26th …
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 …
