Inventor and television pioneer Philo T. Farnsworth was born August 19, 1906 in Beaver County, Utah. The family moved to a farm near Rigby, Idaho during World War I. There, Philo set off on the path that would earn him the designation as “the father of television.” via sfcompanion.blogspot.com I don't remember this date when […]
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Do you have an iPhone, iPad, or some other such "iGizmo" that you use to follow Fusor.net? If so, then we have an icon for you. If you want to make fusor.net or the forum page (fusor.net/board/) a "home screen" icon on your mobile device, then follow the drill on the gizmo (i.e. the "+"
Uh, Houston? We Have… An Icon! Read More »
Kudos to Dan Solomon at Asylum.com for getting to the real heart of the "amateur" fusion movement hosted here at Fusor.net. In this piece published to the website yesterday, he focuses on modest high-schooler Chad Ramey, who at age 17 is building himself one of those fusion contraptions and showing it off at high-school science
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The story of Mark Suppes' polywell fusion project in Brooklyn, NY continues to viralize itself around the virtual tubes of the Internetz. This morning CNN.com posted this story to its website: New York (CNN) – Some people collect stamps or build miniature boats, while others obsess over their tricked-out cars — but what if your
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The Mark Suppes fusor story is going viral now. There is an account at Gizmodo, which offers a much better overview than the first BBC piece, and stresses the pivotal issue that governs this and ALL fusion research: The problem with fusion has always been that we don't know how to get more energy
No Sleep ‘Til Fusion Read More »
Well now, finally, after too many months, something new to report here on the front page of Fusor.net. Oh, I know, there have been some stories, but most of them have been about how the debt and currency crisis in Europe has de-railed ITER, which strikes me as not much of a loss since that
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In case you're not keeping score, here's a round-up of the most visible fusion projects around the world. And while the article notes that "even amateurs have done it," there's no mention among this Top Ten list of the Fusor or any of the individuals who are experimenting with it. In other words, if you
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What's the old saw, "Nuclear fusion is 20-30 years in the future — and always will be" ? Here's another example, from the University of Florida, as reported in the New Zealand Herald (huh?). The University of Florida have taken a different tack, by putting hydrogen and boron fuel into an accelerator that fires them
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Every now and then, one of these basement fusor projects makes the local news. Here's an article from a recent edition of the Rochester (NY) Democrat and Chronicle about the fusor that Matthew Honickman built to start the New Year: "This is fun," he said. "For a lot of people, fusion seems kind of like
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Readers and Fusioneers familiar with the story of Philo Farnsworth's 1950s and 60s fusion research will recognize this as the address where that seminal research was conducted. Apparently the building has served its purpose for its present owners: Indiana's NewsCenter has learned a demolition permit has been issued for the so-called Farnsworth Factory on
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