Students Achieve Fusion

Students at Penninsula College have achieved fusion. I am more than a little proud to say I had a little to do with it. At least in so far as getting them on the right track.

Penninsula College Fusioneers
From left to right: Devon, Ivan, Sarah, Chris, Aaron, and Derek.
The Reactor
The Reactor
Peninsula College Glows
It glows

Which just goes to show that fusion research need not take big labs and big budgets. There is a lot that can be done in small labs to advance the state of the art. So let me encourage the rest of you: Start A Fusion Program In Your Own Home Town. America needs your help. The world needs your help.

Let me add that the genesis of this report was a bit done by ClassicPenny at Talk Polywell.

Cross Posted at Power and Control

posted by Simon on 06.24.08 at 06:16 AM





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Hey, I don't see Keanu Reeves or Rachel Weisz in the photo - what gives?

Steve Skubinna   ·  June 24, 2008 12:12 PM

Wonderful. Congratulations to you in helping inspire them!

Eric Scheie   ·  June 24, 2008 03:42 PM

I'm not sure that building a Farnsworth Fusor is really "advancing the state of the art" at this point, since Farnsworth was doing that very thing at BYU 40 years ago.

Wicked cool science project, though.

Sigivald   ·  June 24, 2008 04:32 PM

Sigivald,

They now have a tool. They could inject RF at the natural plasma frequency and see what that does. They could work on Boron sputtering.

And yes: it is a wicked cool science fair project.

M. Simon   ·  June 24, 2008 05:11 PM

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