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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 […]

"Veteran" Fusioneer Chad Ramey came to Nashville last week to speak at a hacker's convention called "PhreakNic."  It was a petty impressive demonstration, too… and probably not what any of the spectators expected. After all, it's not every day that a college student wheels a cart into a conference room and proceeds to produce an

That star in the video screen is a synthetic star Richard runs his Fusor past 1-million neutrons/sec.

Warming up his Fusor IV at HEAS 11

This year’s gathering outside Richard’s lab. iPhoto by Ashley Sanns.

Richard Hull after running his Fusor past a million neutrons per sec

…has been showing up in the news lately… A couple of stories percolated around the Interwebs over the past few weeks about Taylor Wilson, who, at the age of 14, claimed the mantle of "World's Youngest Fusioneer" – i.e. the youngest person to build a fusor (or any kind of fusion device) and produce neutrons

Jeez, the front page of this site really doesn’t do a very good job of reflecting what’s going on in the background, does it?  I mean, there are dozens of posts every day to the forums, and I haven’t posted anything to the front page since December 2010?  What’s up with that?  It probably has something

There is a great story running this week in an online publication called The Epoch Times.  The feature offers a pretty balanced perspective on the history of the Fusor, the work that has been done over the past decade-plus, and the realistic prospects for ever achieving useful (i.e. "breakeven") energy from a fusion process.  

You know how sometimes you got to a dinner party and the "adults" all sit at a big table and there's another table set aside for the "kids"? Well, yesterday I went to dinner with all the folks who attended Richard Hull's "High-Energy Amateur Science" fair at his home in Richmond, Virginia. After spending the