TEEN GOES NUCLEAR: Creates fusion in his home

Home fusor build by teenager, excellent! – “Thiago Olson, 17, stands near his nuclear fusion reactor, which he calls “the Fusor,” at home in Oakland Township on Friday. After more than two years and 1,000 hours of research, the Stoney Creek High School senior, with a little help from his dad, built the machine. (PATRICIA BECK/Detroit Free Press)… “I thought he was going to be a cook,” Natalice Olson [his mother] said, “because he liked to mix things.” [via] – Link.

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Related:

• Open source fuser research – Link.

From the pages of MAKE:

• A Fusion Reactor for the Rest of Us – Ed Storms is leading the effort to take cold fusion off the back burner by moving it into the garage. Subscribers–read this article now in your digital edition!