Detroit Area Teen Creates Fusion In Basement

[Dubh Aingeal]

The Detroit Free Press is reporting that Thiago Olson, a 17 year old Michigan teen, was able to create a small fusion device in his parents' basement. The machine uses a 40,000 volt charge and deuterium gas to create the small reaction, which he says looks like a 'small intense ball of energy.' The teen's fusion device is obviously not a self-sustaining reactor, but it still shows how fusion technology is becoming more accessible. Hopefully this points to a future where large scale fusion reactors are both economical and widely used."

[BrassFusion]

The Detroit Free Press is reporting that Thiago Olson, a 17 year old Michigan teen, was able to create a small fusion device in his parents' basement. The machine uses a 40,000 volt charge and deuterium gas to create the small reaction, which he says looks like a 'small intense ball of energy.' The teen's fusion device is obviously not a self-sustaining reactor, but it still shows how fusion technology is becoming more accessible. Hopefully this points to a future where large scale fusion reactors are both economical and widely used."

Gooooooooooooooooo Fusion!

[kellygrrrrrl]

I want to see a picture of the fusion ball! Probably looks like a tiny little sun!!

Damn, that is crazy awsome!

What a smarty pants.

[HipsterDufus]

Sounds like a terrorist to me...

:fear

[Msterbeau]

I think I'm glad I moved to Kentucky. I'll be bringing the kids back with me on the next visit....

[ZhukovCodeslinger]

wow... now thats two detroit teens... remember the kid from Macomb county that built the breeder reactor in the early 90s? He got it to work... but created a superfund clean up with all of the radiation he released... He also contends that he only shortened his lifespan by about 10 years... which equates the the worst part of ones life anyway.

[Sayo]

I was reading this thinking back to that kid with the reactor, I totally thought he was from around here too...

Whats up with all the detroit natives creating science experiments that damn near blow socks off of the World Fair? Is it the city water? Gah...

[Homicidalheathen]

Kids these days.......sheesh! And to think we parents complained about video games....!

[Vampyro]

LMAO!!!!!!!! Wow... funny but when i was in the marines, me and this one other brainiac buddy of mine schemed up some roughly done blueprints for a self sustaining energy generator. The probability that it would actually work is highly unlikely, but as far as we knew, possibly... eh... possible? No fusion or radiation would have been used, just magnets. The idea was simple but complex. Get a solid iron metal pole, wrap it with copper wire basicly making an electric engine. But it would be in a vacuum to get minimal friction and resistance, have another electric moter hooked up to this shaft to start it rotating, and keep it rotating, and the rotating shaft, with natural magnets (wich would also keep the pole suspended in this vacuum.) would create an electric current, wich by theory and hopeful thinking, would give enough juice to power the smaller motor enough to keep it rotating, as well as create extra energy to use. This was origionally schemed up to aid in a laboratory to make uh.... stuff... and well uh... other stuff. Someday I would like to try to make this, but I'll need the money and another braniac who is good enough in math to help me figure this out when it doesn't work the first ten thousand times we try...

Maybe I should write these kids and ask them when they get outta jail?

[Der Nister]

The apocalypse will begin in Detroit.

[Dubh Aingeal]

Who says it hasn't already? With the way Detroit looks and is run noone has noticed it yet.