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It is “common” (as in not unique), but assembling a fusor and getting actual neutrons from it is still a very big deal, especially for a 12 years old. I am a nu
by atemerev 8y ago
It is “common” (as in not unique), but assembling a fusor and getting actual neutrons from it is still a very big deal, especially for a 12 years old. I am a nuclear engineering enthusiast at 35, I know a lot about these devices, but I doubt I could build a fusor on my own at home. It is a big engineering project.
- agumonkey 8y agoYeah the age is probably the news here. I remember older teens (HS junior) doing the same.. but 12 .. that's young. Kudos to him. Hopefully mother nature decided he would be the chosen one to make fusion reactor net positive
- solarkraft 8y agoThen again: Why would he?; There are are thousands of very smart people working on this. While this is an excellent demonstration of his ability, I doubt he could actually outbid professional researchers.
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- aaomidi 8y agoA lot of science has been dumb luck and doing some random thing at the right time. I mean I hope for all of us this is one of those cases.
- agumonkey 8y agoNothing serious man, part of me just want fusion energy to exist (although humanity will probably abuse it ..)
- coldtea 8y agoIt was just a kind comment to applaud his ingenuity at such a young age. It wasn't meant to be interpreted as a factual statement.
- mrob 8y agoNote that a lot of "fusors" are actually "demo fusors", i.e. they run at too low energy to produce detectable fusion even if you did fuel them with deuterium. A "demo fusor" just produces plasma that looks similar without doing real fusion. This article is about the real thing, which is substantially more difficult to build.
- Florin_Andrei 8y agoThe key is - does it make neutrons or not? If it does, it's fusing. If not, it isn't.