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re: Teen builds working nuclear fusion reactor in Memphis home
Posted on 2/20/19 at 2:01 pm to member12
Posted on 2/20/19 at 2:01 pm to member12
idk why this is on fox news and why there is a 6 page thread on this
all i see is an intelligent kid with good machining skills and rich parents that built a common cold fusion reactor that has been built multiple times before by other teenagers
all i see is an intelligent kid with good machining skills and rich parents that built a common cold fusion reactor that has been built multiple times before by other teenagers
This post was edited on 2/20/19 at 2:02 pm
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Posted on 2/20/19 at 2:10 pm to Loaner1231
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Skunk Works recently filed a patent for a "miniature" nuclear fusion reactor. If they're successful this will be a major game changer for space travel.
My name is on several patents shared with the corporation where I worked for devices that cannot work now, and will never work in the future. Proving the validity of a design is not required of the inventor, the design only has to appear feasible to the patent examiner.
Posted on 2/20/19 at 2:15 pm to DVinBR
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built a common cold fusion reactor that has been built multiple times before by other teenagers
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In Jackson’s case that meant combining two atoms of deuterium gas in the fusion reactor’s plasma core which ejected a neutron into a device that slowed it down and detected nuclear fusion.
That doesn't sound like cold fusion to me.
Posted on 2/20/19 at 2:15 pm to Mad Dawg 2020
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Kid will have us time traveling by the time he is 25
Yes he did...
...I mean, yes he will.
Forget I said anything, but you might want to put some money down on Florida against the spread tonight.
Posted on 2/20/19 at 2:16 pm to MountainTiger
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That doesn't sound like cold fusion to me.
Because it isn’t cold fusion.
Posted on 2/20/19 at 2:19 pm to Loaner1231
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I’d say the expenditure has a higher chance of paying off down the road than the thousands of dollars travel ball parents sink into the pipe dream their kids will become a pro.
Pretty much. This will look good on the kid's application to MIT or Cal Poly in 5 years as something to distinguish himself from his peers rather than pretending he's any kind of genius.
Posted on 2/20/19 at 2:32 pm to member12
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50,000 volts of electricity he uses to warm the fusion reactor’s plasma core
i would kill my kid....who is paying that electric bill...not me you better get your happy arse out and mow some grass for that bill!
This post was edited on 2/20/19 at 2:37 pm
Posted on 2/20/19 at 4:09 pm to LATECHgradLSUfan
I hope you aren't a LA Tech engineering grad... 
Can get 500,000V with a 9V battery and a pawnshop taser. Something called a "transformer" you should look up.
Can get 500,000V with a 9V battery and a pawnshop taser. Something called a "transformer" you should look up.
Posted on 2/20/19 at 4:12 pm to member12
My kid was welding at like 6
Posted on 2/20/19 at 4:20 pm to member12
I was into baseball cards at that age
Posted on 2/20/19 at 4:21 pm to Clames
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I hope you aren't a LA Tech engineering grad... Can get 500,000V with a 9V battery and a pawnshop taser. Something called a "transformer" you should look up.
No, far from an engineering grad...I do understand the difference in a volt and a watt however...i was making a terrible dad joke...tying in the lawn mowing and "turn off the lights kids electricity isn't free" joke and I apologize, may God have mercy on my soul.
This post was edited on 2/20/19 at 4:24 pm
Posted on 2/20/19 at 4:21 pm to member12
I'm calling B.S.
Posted on 2/20/19 at 4:26 pm to HempHead
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Color me just a bit skeptical that two teenagers were able to accomplish what thousands of scientists have been trying to do for decades.
Amazing what these damn millennials have been able to accomplish in the Age of Information and Technology... Btw, this kid is Generation Z, so I guess millennials are still just succubi on society.
Posted on 2/20/19 at 5:35 pm to Loaner1231
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Because it isn’t cold fusion.
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Cold fusion is a hypothesized type of nuclear reaction that would occur at, or near, room temperature. This is compared with the "hot" fusion which takes place naturally within stars, under immense pressure and at temperatures of millions of degrees, and distinguished from muon-catalyzed fusion.
Here's even a make magazine article on how to make a reactor like this kid made
https://makezine.com/projects/make-36-boards/nuclear-fusor/
This post was edited on 2/20/19 at 5:45 pm
Posted on 2/20/19 at 6:09 pm to DVinBR
quote:quote:Cold fusion is a hypothesized type of nuclear reaction that would occur at, or near, room temperature. This is compared with the "hot" fusion which takes place naturally within stars, under immense pressure and at temperatures of millions of degrees, and distinguished from muon-catalyzed fusion.
Because it isn’t cold fusion.
"Cold fusion" does not refer to the bulk temperature around the apparatus; it refers to the temperature at which the reaction occurs or, more accurately, the kinetic energy of the atoms when the reaction occurs.
The apparatus the kid made uses high voltage differential to accelerate a small number of ionized deuterium atoms in a vacuum toward the center of the device where some of them hit with enough total energy to overcome the electrostatic repulsion of their nuclei and get close enough for the strong force to take hold and fuse. It's hot fusion.
Posted on 2/20/19 at 6:13 pm to DVinBR
From the article:
Since his device actually does work (assuming it does), it is therefore hot fusion.
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Luckily, DIY nuclear engineers can achieve honest-to-goodness “hot fusion” right at home by making a Farnsworth-Hirsch fusion reactor, or fusor for short.
Since his device actually does work (assuming it does), it is therefore hot fusion.
Posted on 2/21/19 at 9:12 am to madmaxvol
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Kid will have us time traveling by the time he is 25
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Yes he did...
...I mean, yes he will.
Forget I said anything, but you might want to put some money down on Florida against the spread tonight.
Told ya...
Posted on 2/21/19 at 10:12 am to madmaxvol
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Told ya...
I was thinking about your post during the game last night.
Posted on 2/21/19 at 12:18 pm to HempHead
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Color me just a bit skeptical that two teenagers were able to accomplish what thousands of scientists have been trying to do for decades.
I hope it's true, but, uh, I have my doubts.
It didn't take scientists all that much time or that many of them to do fusion. That happened in the earlier parts of the 20th century.
Don't confuse a fusion reactor with sustained fusion.
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