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 […]
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If you’ve read anything about the promise of nuclear fusion, one of the words you encounter most frequently is “safe.” As in nuclear fusion will one day be a “clean, safe, and inexhaustible…” source of nuclear energy. Yeah, well, maybe. Relatively speaking. Compared to the nuclear reactors online today, yes, fusion is probably “safer” than fission.
Here’s a great example of what one motivated individual can do to inspire the next generation of Fusioneers. Carl Greninger is an IT executive at Microsoft who became frustrated a few years ago with the limitations placed on science education in the public schools in his home town of Federal Way, WA. It started with
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It turns out that over the years, the Fusor.net forums have accumulated quite a bit of material that revisits the events that transpired at the ITT/Farnsworth laboratory in Fort Wayne, Indiana during the years when the Fusor was first introduced and developed (ca. 1959-1967). That lab was located on Pontiac Street in Fort Wayne, so a
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
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When we discussed the future of Fusor.net at the HEAS gathering at Richard Hull’s home back in October, one of the recurring themes was: there is a wealth of information buried beneath the detritus of daily exchanges that one typically finds in the forums. This site has been in existence more or less for nearly
New Feature: The Best of Fusor.Net
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A question, I know, that for some people is like asking “do you spend much time breathing? Well, no, not voluntarily…. If you are one of those people whose involuntary reflexes include frequent glances at the infinite trivia generator known as “Facebook,” then consider taking a look at the Fusor Builders group there. The group is
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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
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. ..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,”
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…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,
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