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Unfortunately, he discovered it at the National Ignition Facility, where they can spend tens of millions of dollars on a single burst of fusion produced by a finely-tune array of nearly 200 laser beams: Hang around long enough and you’ll even hear that in another 10 or 20 years hydrogen-powered cars or fusion energy will […]

I'm still getting static (in the form of snarky comments) to that "Nobel Laureates Endorse Obama" post from a couple of months ago, so I'm leery of making "political" posts in this this space.  But this isn't politics, it's just "news."  (And rather old news at that, the dateline is like 10 days ago….) WASHINGTON

The release of the new movie "Flash of Genius" has brought the subject of  How Inventors Always Get Screwed into the daily media diet. BTW, if you don’t know about Armstrong, you should read Lawrence Lessing’s (he’s not the Internet Lessig) 1956 biography, "Man of High Fidelity." The book is sadly out of print (old

Assembled at HEAS 08: Standing: Q, Eric Stroud, Bill Fain, Dave Rosignoli, Alex Kingsbury; Seated: The Perfesser, Richard Hull, Raymond Jimenez.

What’s that old line about men, boys, and the price of their toys.

This is what a miniature artificial star looks like. You can only see it on a video screen.

High Energy Amateur Scientists watch as Richard Hull runs his “star in a jar” nuclear fusion reactor. Meanwhile, the big ITER machine in Europe — the multi-billion dollar boondoggle, is broken.

Richard Hull gets ready to demonstrate his home-made nuclear fusion reactor, Fusor IV.

Van deGraaf generator demo at Richard Hull’s High Energy Amateur Science gathering in Richmond, VA Oct 4 2008

Not that I want to get political or anything on a site dedicated to science, but 61 Nobel Laureates speaking in unison warrants some attention: An Open Letter to the American People This year’s presidential election is among the most significant in our nation’s history. The country urgently needs a visionary leader who can ensure