Can this kid make Trevor's ____ glow?

[hh5]

will shane take notice under the board shorts?

 

http://en.wikipedia....i/Taylor_Wilson

 

American nuclear scientist who was noted in 2008 for being the youngest person in the world (at age 14) to build a working nuclear fusion reactor

 

 

 

http://www.popsci.co...o-played-fusion

 

 

 

How fusion-reactors work?

 

Are they just creating one aspect of Fusion?

Isn't the sun made up of many complex Fusion reactions?

 

* The fuel held by immense gravity and pressure

* The reactions that inspire other Fusion type reactions

etc

 

Now just taking the heat by product is still old school of generating electricity

isn't there a more direct method? from reaction to electric?

 

They use what they call a magnetic bottle but that's a leaky bottle

Isn't gravity more than just electromagnetic field?

The Plasma in a donut ... is the plasma spinning?

Edited August 15, 2012 by hh5

[NotNoNever]

My head's spinning ...

[Nick Deverill]

Wow. Part of me says I'd like to meet him, but I'm not sure I'd want to live next door!

[C James]

Interesting!

 

Kudos to the kids parents. It's true; repressing a kid like that and trying to force him to be "normal" is unhealthy, as seen with the "radioactive boyscout" who ended up building a reactor pile in a garden shed.

 

It's too bad the reporter who authored the article wasn't versed in science though. Some of the incongruities jarred me. For example, the uranium in a Mk-17 nuclear warhead is all depleted uranium (so not weapons grade or even reactor grade), no more than trace radioactive. You find a lot of depleted uranium in thermonuclear warheads, because contrary to what most assume, the majority of the yeild comes from fission, not fusion. Basically, the high-energy neutrons produced by the fission (>`11MeV) cause fission in the depleted uranium, and that fission is the third stage of a three stage device (a thermonuclear, or hydrogen, bomb is almost always such a three stage device) and that fission via the fusion neutrons gives about 80% to 85% of the yeild of any given device. The "spark plug" refereed to though (essentially the ignitor for the second stage - the thermonuclear burn), that's plutonium. Also, they mentioned the bomb was nicknamed the "peacemaker". It wasn't. That's the nickname of the B-36 bomber. He also typo'd Einstein's formula, listing it as E=MC2 instead of E=MC^2, an absolutely enormous difference of many orders of magnitude. I could go on as there were many such goofs in the Popsci article, but it's just too bad he didn't get the kid to proofread it for him.

 

As a guess, he was after Lithium deuteride at that bomb site, and that isn't very radioactive, and that type of bomb had a lot of it.

 

Interesting idea regarding using high energy neutrons to make medical isotopes in situ. It's easy to make a neutron source (for example use the cathode array from a TV to bombard titanium foil) , but those are low energy neutrons, not the high energy neutrons he'd need for transmuting elements. For that, you pretty much need fusion, or a large accelerator. I have a hunch that we'll be hearing more about this kid in the coming years.

 

And yeah, I think he'd make me nervous if he lived next door too.

[hh5]

Does he bath in heavy water in that yellow suit? Its very early 19th century lol

 

Will he father your children that have glowing eyes?

Edited August 16, 2012 by hh5

[hh5]

my brother is mentoring another future fusion expert ...

lol, we will all be glowing one day

 

if these two guys ... fused together