Hey! Has anyone heard about this? I remember when the ?Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry and Interfacial Electrochemistry? came out with the Cold Fusion thing back in the (late 80's?). This sounds new and different.
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2006/nov/19/teen_creates_nuclear_fusion_basement/ But to his friends, Thiago is known as ?the mad scientist.?
In the basement of his parents? Oakland Township, Mich., home, tucked away in an area most aren?t privy to see, Thiago is exhausting his love of physics on a project that has taken him more than two years and 1,000 hours to research and build ? a large, intricate machine that, on a small scale, creates nuclear fusion.
Then, deuterium gas ? a form of hydrogen ? is injected into the vacuum. About 40,000 volts of electricity are charged into the chamber from a piece of equipment taken from an old mammogram machine. As the machine runs, the atoms in the chamber are attracted to the center and soon ? ta da ? nuclear fusion.
?Originally, he wanted to build a hyperbolic chamber,? she [mom] said, adding that she promptly said no. But, when he came asking about the nuclear fusion machine, she relented.
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Oh, well if it's just a nuclear fusion machine, okay....
~samwik
