Meet Mark Suppes, a 34-year-old freelance computer programmer, who built a homemade nuclear fusion reactor in a friends warehouse, in Brooklyn, NY.
The project is legal and not considered dangerous – but people who live near the reactor aren’t convinced.
Some parts of the reactor were purchased on eBay!
The machine is about the size of a filing cabinet. At its center is a core of deuterium atoms that, when heated to 100 million degrees Celsius (about six times hotter than the Sun’s core), should fuse into helium and release a huge amount of safe, clean energy.
The reactor comes in right under $50,000 total cost so far.
Not at all impossible
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Makes me wonder what else is being built.
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Yes, it’s the things we haven’t heard about that should worry us.
*** if we are the worry sort.
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The funny thing about it…. we aren’t
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Worry causes stress; stress causes sickness ~ymmv
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I’m stuck on the “SHOULD fuse into helium” part. Should?
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