17 year old teenager builds homemade fusion reactor

Saturday, Mar. 31 2007 | Author: Griffith

A 17 year old teenager from Michigan, who wanted to win a science fair, decided to build a fusion reactor in his basement… talk about overkill!

The project was no easy task, and required over 1000 hours for research and design (that’s over 2 months and a half of studying and planning if he spent all of his awaken time doing research for it). How did he managed to get the parts he needed for it? Well, from eBay of course!

Now I don’t know what’s most surprising, the fact that it was a 17 year old that made a device that can fuse two hydrogen atoms together, or the fact that you can get the pieces for it from eBay.

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4 Responses for "17 year old teenager builds homemade fusion reactor"

Jeremy Steele

March 31st, 2007 at 7:45 am
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I bet it makes one hell of an Espresso.
Marco (Griffith) Jardim

March 31st, 2007 at 2:47 pm
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But does it run Linux? ;)
How to Bid on eBay

April 1st, 2007 at 8:53 pm
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[…] So with those tips, I hope that you’d be a better eBayer now. Learn from experience and enjoy. Who know, you might score some great deals on a fusion reactor somewhere. […]
The Homely Scientist » Yes you too can have a 200 million degree ball of plasma in your basement

April 3rd, 2007 at 1:35 pm
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[…] Ah science fair projects. Oddly enough I never participated in any, my school didn’t have them. But we did have the yearly science project for class. Let’s see for chem I tested various water proofing agents on leather. Bio was a bacteria experiment. Physics, I played with wing design on gliders. I never considered making a fusion reactor. Well a 17 year old in Michigan thought about it, and did it: Now I don’t know what’s most surprising, the fact that it was a 17 year old that made a device that can fuse two hydrogen atoms together, or the fact that you can get the pieces for it from eBay. Source: 17 year old teenager builds homemade fusion reactor […]