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Article #8064Re: DIY School project - build a nuclear fusion reactor in your bedroom
From: Chris Carlen
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 14:52
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 14:52
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Andrew Resnick wrote: > 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. Why did the kid get only second place? I mean, this is impressive. Lack of theoretical understanding? I certainly hope he does acquire the theoretical foundations to enable him to participate in the advancement of science. My hat's off to this kid! Good day! -- _______________________________________________________________________ Christopher R. Carlen Principal Laser/Optical Technologist Sandia National Laboratories CA USA crcarle@sandia.gov -- NOTE: Remove "BOGUS" from email address to reply.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10b271,d1239a3f93083b4f X-Google-Attributes: gid10b271,public X-Google-Thread: 103407,d1239a3f93083b4f X-Google-Attributes: gid103407,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-18 08:02:11 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.isc.org!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!pd2nf1so.cg.shawcable.net!residential.shaw.ca!news-out.superfeed.net!propagator2-maxim!feed-maxim.newsfeeds.com!feeder.nmix.net!feeder.swcp.com!news.sandia.gov!not-for-mail From: Chris Carlen <crcarle@BOGUS.sandia.gov> Newsgroups: sci.physics,aus.electronics Subject: Re: DIY School project - build a nuclear fusion reactor in your bedroom Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 07:52:24 -0700 Organization: Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM USA Lines: 42 Message-ID: <bkcgr3$ot0$1@sass2141.sandia.gov> References: <bk9rlo$qk420$1@ID-202028.news.uni-berlin.de> <7ce4e226.0309171154.236f026f@posting.google.com> <20030918082431877-0400@newsread.grc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: mango.ran.sandia.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sass2141.sandia.gov 1063896739 25504 134.252.41.24 (18 Sep 2003 14:52:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sass2141.sandia.gov NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 14:52:19 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030425 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <20030918082431877-0400@newsread.grc.nasa.gov>