There's a nice write up about another one of the younger Fusor builders, Ben Bartlett, at thestate.com.  (Apparently it's a Columbia, South Carolina newspaper website.  The site doesn't actually identify itself as anything other than "South Carolina's Homepage."  OK, fine, if you say so…)  Here's an excerpt:  Just how brightly does Ben’s star shine? Just […]

This past Sunday, April 1, 2012, CBS Sunday Morning ran not one, but TWO stories about the continuing quest for nuclear fusion. The first  was a serious "hard news" (they have to call it that nowadays because so much of what passes for news is just fluff…) segment by David Pogue about the National Ignition

I don't particularly care to keep spotlighting Taylor Wilson at the expense of the other outstanding Fusioneers of all ages from all over the world who are experimenting with the fundamental forces of the universe in their basements and garages, but when one of our number garners a mult-page feature on one of the most

As the host of this site, it has always been my contention that one of its under-stated goals was to encourage a new generation of experimenters to investigate the possibilities of fusion.  A lot of the veterans here are fairly certain that the Fusor will never be a meaningful source of useful energy on the

"Veteran" Fusioneer Chad Ramey came to Nashville last week to speak at a hacker's convention called "PhreakNic."  It was a petty impressive demonstration, too… and probably not what any of the spectators expected. After all, it's not every day that a college student wheels a cart into a conference room and proceeds to produce an

That star in the video screen is a synthetic star Richard runs his Fusor past 1-million neutrons/sec.

Warming up his Fusor IV at HEAS 11

This year’s gathering outside Richard’s lab. iPhoto by Ashley Sanns.

Richard Hull after running his Fusor past a million neutrons per sec

…has been showing up in the news lately… A couple of stories percolated around the Interwebs over the past few weeks about Taylor Wilson, who, at the age of 14, claimed the mantle of "World's Youngest Fusioneer" – i.e. the youngest person to build a fusor (or any kind of fusion device) and produce neutrons