…that the future will be a from-the-ground-up affair:  the Makers Faire, sponsored by the publishers of "Make" magazine:   As important as tinkering has been to the nation’s past, it could become a much bigger deal before long, said David Pescovitz, a research director at the Institute for the Future, a consultancy in Silicon Valley. […]

I’ve added a couple of new links over in the "Newbies" section in the column on the right.  I also had to "number" them to get them in the order I prefer.  New item #02.1 is a direct link to 2008 update of Tom Ligon’s seminal "The World’s Simplest Fusion Reactor."  The new version includes

…and for finding  another way to waste billions on a ridiculous fusion scheme. The headline for this article actually says these blokes are going to "recreate the sun:" A NUCLEAR fusion laboratory designed to recreate the temperatures and pressures inside the sun could be built in Oxfordshire under plans being drawn up by British scientists

Long time followers of the forums on  this website will recognize the name of Tom Ligon as one of the prime instigators of the whole, world-wide basement/garage (I hate the word "amateur") fusor project.  It all began, really, when Tom — who has worked with Dr. Robert Bussard — wrote an article about the fusor

Here’s a colorful primer on that great Nuclear Fusion reactor in the sky: Life on Earth is absolutely dependent on the Sun. If it suddenly shut down, it would take eight minutes for our world to be plunged into total darkness. Its energy comes from nuclear fusion taking place deep in its core. Heat and

….when your country is already drowning in red ink and paper money?  Not much, according to Tennessee’s own Lamar Alexander, freshly minted authority on all things nuclear. Lamar laments that the U.S. is not contributing more to the the billion dollar boondoggle in France: "That’s an embarrassing mistake by Congress. That’s what it is," Alexander

Another student has built himself a basement fusion reactor, as recently reported in a Springfield (IL) newspaper: Link: It’s Only Rocket Science – News – Springfield Connection – Connection Newspapers. Call him Springfield’s resident genius. Andrew Grzankowski, a graduate of West Springfield High School, spent his summer vacation building a fusion reactor at Longwood University

…who is not even remotely familiar with the concept of nuclear fusion?  That’s the question that comes to mind after reading that of the question that was posed to John Edwards at a campaign event in New Hampshire recently: Another man, Howard Epstein, asked Mr. Edwards whether he supported nuclear fusion in the context of

…and it’s not the one you think you’ve heard before. Richard Hull has stayed in close touch with all the living members of the Farnsworth/ITT Pontiac Street fusion lab from the 1960s, and has compiled the most complete history of that project exists today.  Sadly perhaps, as some members of the team have passed on

…and, not surprisingly, the ITER project in France is not only sucking all the money out of the room, it’s getting all the media attention.  $12-billion to get "close" to the actual goal of producing actual electricity.  Follow the link to listen to the report: Researchers Seek to Recreate Fusion Power. Morning Edition, August 20,