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Weird opinion to see on HN. People who forsee and can execute on building a nuclear power startup can get outside investment. Fusion research is moving to the s
by friendlybus 6y ago
Weird opinion to see on HN. People who forsee and can execute on building a nuclear power startup can get outside investment. Fusion research is moving to the small and cheap entrepreneurial projects.
You prefer to have nuclear physicists digging ditches like parent poster..?
- godelski 6y agoThere was a story my undergraduate advisor told me about a guy who built a particle accelerator at his home. Got him a job at Fermi. There's plenty of people doing stuff at home, even on crazy projects. Zhang solved the twin prime conjecture while he worked at subway because he couldn't get an academic job[0]. I think many also know Grigori Perelman[1] turning down the Fields Medal. There's the nuclear boy scout. Michio Kaku built an accelerator as a teenager. How many SV startups came out of garages? It is so weird to hear the GP comment on a site where we glorify those that rose from shoestring budgets. In fact, what is more American than that kind of story? Maybe the dream died, but maybe it shouldn't have. [0] https://gizmodo.com/a-former-subway-worker-made-a-breakthrough-discovery-in-508987652 https://gizmodo.com/a-former-subway-worker-made-a-breakthrou... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman
- friendlybus 6y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Laberge https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Laberge Michel started a prototype fusion reactor in a shed that turned into General Fusion. Einstein was of course a patent clerk. It all starts somewhere.