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Article #8062Re: DIY School project - build a nuclear fusion reactor in your bedroom
From: Paul R. Mays
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 13:56
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 13:56
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"Andrew Resnick" <andy.resnick@NOSPAM.grc.nasaDOTgov> wrote in message news:20030918082431877-0400@newsread.grc.nasa.gov... > In <7ce4e226.0309171154.236f026f@posting.google.com> Harry Conover wrote: > > "Gregory Toomey" <NOSPAM@bigpond.com> wrote in message news: > > <bk9rlo$qk420$1@ID-202028.news.uni-berlin.de>... > >> Yes it can be done: > >> http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,510054502,00.html > >> > >> gtoomey > > > > Notice the lack of shielding in the kid's apparatus. This tells the > > story! > > I was one of the judges at the Intel science fair mentioned at the end > of the story, and Mr. Wallace was one of my assigned students. The kid > has a lot of mechanical aptitude, that much is obvious. The trick is to > harness that enthusiam and ability to produce a useful scientist/ > engineer rather than discouraging him and ending up with a crackpot > tinkerer producing the next generation Orgonne Accumulator. > > > -- > Andrew Resnick, Ph. D. > National Center for Microgravity Research > NASA Glenn Research Center But he may come up with a really good Orgonne Accumulator and then you will be all red faced and everything....
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