Posted on 02/19/2019 2:56:59 PM PST by ETL
“The start of the process was just learning about what other people had done with their fusion reactors,” explained the mild-mannered teen [now 14-year-old Jackson Oswal].
“After that, I assembled a list of parts I needed. [I] got those parts off eBay primarily and then often times the parts that I managed to scrounge off of eBay weren’t exactly what I needed.
So, I’d have to modify them to be able to do what I needed to do for my project.”
Building the nuclear fusion reactor was no game for Jackson. He converted an old playroom in his Memphis home into a functioning lab.
With the financial support of his parents – he spent between $8,000 and $10,000 over the course of a year collecting the parts he needed to build his nuclear fusion reactor – that was apparently the easy part.
Putting the fusion reactor together and testing to see if it worked was the real challenge. Since there isn’t exactly a manual on how to build something like that he relied on trial and error and the Open Source Fusor Research Consortium, an online forum for amateur physicists, to ensure that he was taking the proper steps toward successfully building a fusion reactor and hopefully achieving fusion.
“After a while, it became pretty simple to realize how it all worked together, but at the start it was definitely figuring out one aspect of it, memorizing what that actually meant and then moving on to a different aspect of it,” Jackson said.
“Eventually all those pieces of the puzzle came together to make a good project.”
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Great!! Glad you came across the thread!
Well, my kid was operating a cyclotron in his mother’s womb in the FIRST TRIMESTER!!!!
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