Teenager makes groundbreaking invention on quest for unlimited energy

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4 pointsindigodaddy3 comments

Well, afaik Farnsworth fusor is neither new invention, nor it can achieve over unity. Still a big achievement!

If I can pick only one technical error in the press report:

> McMillan's creation is a Farnsworth reactor — a scaled-down relative of the powerful tokamak chambers being built in the big labs.

PS: It would be nice to get a post with a more accurate technical description, that avoid all the claims about "unlimited energy" that are not in the future path of a fusor.

Expensive science project with $20,000 spent, but very cool, all that still needed is the "flux capacitor".

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