[ETL]

Lots more to the story at the link.

[gaijin]

I mostly shot at peoples’ eyes with BB guns.

Played with matches.

That kind of stuff.

Jackson is, uh....sorta taking it up a notch, or two.

[alloysteel]

The “Mr. Fusion” reactor on the time-traveling DeLorean....

Does it burn egg shells and beer cans?

[ETL]

The Nuclear Kid — Memphis youth builds home nuclear fusion reactor

John Beifuss, Memphis Commercial Appeal

Jan 28, 2019

https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/2019/01/28/beifuss-file-memphis-youth-jackson-oswalt-builds-home-nuclear-fusion-reactor/1977266002/

[willgolfforfood]

Wow!!!
I hope the young man goes on to invent the first FTL starship drive.

[Vermont Lt]

I thought fusion reactors got too hot? Or am I thinking fission?

[posterchild]

The link for the Open Source group is wrong in the article. It should be fusor.net not ‘furor.net.’

I’m going to guess the 50K volts he uses is going to be at a fairly low non lethal current unless he is getting is power from somewhere special.

[PapaBear3625]

20 years ago, we had The Radioactive Boy Scout

https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/11/this-fall-the-radioactive-boy-scout-died-at-age-39/

[seawolf101]

[Sawdring]

The Radioactive Boy Scout

[PetroniusMaximus]

... and here is Mohammed Ackbar with his functioning warp drive.

[taxcontrol]

Fusion - so simple a 12 year old can do it.

[CharlesWayneCT]

The start of the process was just learning about what other people had done with their fusion reactors,”

Since nobody has really built a working fusion reactor, that should not have taken that long.

[bwest]

Yeah - - I don’t think so.

[infool7]

It looks like he may be smirking a bit in that second picture.

I hope that doesn’t run him afoul with the PC crowd.

7

[shanover]

“Clock Boy” has no comment.

[fruser1]

Hopefully some strawberry-perfumed bimbo doesn’t draw his attention to “the dark side”.

[Fiddlstix]

Farnsworth–Hirsch fusor (Click Here)

This design came from work by Philo T. Farnsworth in 1964 and Robert L. Hirsch in 1967More Info At Link.

(BTW. You can also thank Philo Farnsworth For The modern all electronic Television system)

[fieldmarshaldj]

Didn’t they do this on “Barney Miller” ?

[preacher]

L8r

[JoeFromSidney]

I used to make black powder and put it in fireworks. This kid has sure gone a long at beyond that. Hope he doesn't kill himself with neutron radiation before he becomes a successful scientist.