… we really are going to need shades… Imagine being dropped into the middle of an episode of “The Big Bang Theory.” Then imagine taking LSD. Then imagine that the episode runs for like 12 or 14 hours… Now you’ve got some idea what this past Saturday was like for me… The occasion was the 26th …
No, not really mad… just Richard Hull turning down the lights in his lab while demonstrating his Fusor IV today at HEAS – the High Energy Amateur Science confab at his home and lab in Richmond, Virginia. More photos and stories when I get home….
by Paul Schatzkin October 1, 2015 What’s wrong with this picture? Tomorrow (Friday, October 2) I will be driving from Nashville up to Richmond, Virginia for the annual gathering of the HEAS – the High Energy Amateur Science club. This loosely-configured assembly of dedicated science nerds has gathered on the first Saturday of every October …
Once I heard the story about The Boy Who Built A Clock, I wondered how long it would be before somebody made a connection between that and the people around the world who are building nuclear fusion reactors in their basements and garages. I got the answer to that this morning. On Facebook, of course: …
Isn’t this the outfit that got a whole lot of press last year when they got some funding from one of Silicon Valley’s start-up incubators? “What Helion is trying to achieve is to shoot two plasma balls made of hydrogen atom cores at each other at one million miles per hour to collide within an …
It’s always interesting to see what fusion research looked like in the early days…. …if for no other reason than because it affords some insight into just why, as Richard Hull (among others) is so fond of saying, “Fusion is 20 years in the future and always will be…” It is also intriguing to see …
And I dare say it’s been a long time coming… News surfaced this past week that one of the world’s most prominent startup incubators, Y Combinator has taken a stake in a company called Helion, which insists that it will produce a break-even nuclear fusion process in three years: So it came as a surprise to …
I really do need to keep better track of my daily Google Alerts. Unfortunately, I’ve become somewhat immune to them. The fusion alerts, in particular, are usually about the ITER or the NIF or some giant government funded fusion boondoggle. They show up in my inbox everyday, and I mostly ignore them. So I missed …
Previously, Taylor Wilson was the youngest fusioneer, achieving fusion in his own home-built reactor at age 14. Now we have 13 year old Jamie Edwards: And now we know the missing ingredient in a successful fusion operation: Jamie Edwards is the boy from Preston who two weeks ago entered the record books as the youngest …
As of today – May 8, 2013 – the transition to our new home and platform is nearly complete. By and large, the whole process was relatively painless. We hit only minor obstacles in the migration. We had to shut down for a couple of days when we we discovered one “feature” that had to …
