Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Show Us Your Tech: 'Softie Builds Nuke Reactor in Garage http://ak.channel9.msdn.com/ch9/0962/d5812743-c602-4a37-a014-9eec01470962/Atomic3_100_ch9.jpg Channel 9 - Show Us Your Tech: 'Softie Builds Nuke Reactor in Garage Carl Greninger works in Microsoft IT Operations as a PM. Carl is also the closest I've met to a real life "Doc Brown". He even has his own version of a Mr. Fusion, except his really works. Carl spent about a year along with a group of 13-17 year old students building his own nuclear reactor. Precisely, what they've built is called a Farnsworth Fusor. Carl and his team are listed as being in "The Neutron Club", which means they have built an operating neutron producing fusion system, with two of the 13 year old members on his team being listed as "Youngest Fusioneer". Carl talks to us about his Fusor, what drove him to build it, and what he hopes to accomplish with it.   en Fri, 24 May 2013 11:31:02 GMT Fri, 24 May 2013 11:31:02 GMT Rev9 Re: Show Us Your Tech: 'Softie Builds Nuke Reactor in Garage Wow! This is amazing! : D However, I do belive that the next nuclear power source is from thorium, since it is far safer than the traditional plant. In addition to this, it can also break down nuclear waste. The problem is that people get panic when they hear the word "radio active" or "radiation".

But good work! : D

posted by martinmine

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Show-Us-Your-Tech-Nuclear-Edition#c634420362260000000 Thu, 26 May 2011 19:50:26 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Show-Us-Your-Tech-Nuclear-Edition#c634420362260000000 martinmine Re: Show Us Your Tech: 'Softie Builds Nuke Reactor in Garage Aw man, I feel old.

posted by magicalclick

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Show-Us-Your-Tech-Nuclear-Edition#c634420414320000000 Thu, 26 May 2011 21:17:12 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Show-Us-Your-Tech-Nuclear-Edition#c634420414320000000 magicalclick Re: Show Us Your Tech: 'Softie Builds Nuke Reactor in Garage I feel stupid

posted by Frank D

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Show-Us-Your-Tech-Nuclear-Edition#c634420421230000000 Thu, 26 May 2011 21:28:43 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Show-Us-Your-Tech-Nuclear-Edition#c634420421230000000 Frank D Re: Show Us Your Tech: 'Softie Builds Nuke Reactor in Garage posted by Buffering

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Show-Us-Your-Tech-Nuclear-Edition#c634420674950000000 Fri, 27 May 2011 04:31:35 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Show-Us-Your-Tech-Nuclear-Edition#c634420674950000000 Kaylee O Re: Show Us Your Tech: 'Softie Builds Nuke Reactor in Garage @Kaylee O:

I would have given my right arm to do something like this in my school years.

posted by sagum

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Show-Us-Your-Tech-Nuclear-Edition#c634420835130000000 Fri, 27 May 2011 08:58:33 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Show-Us-Your-Tech-Nuclear-Edition#c634420835130000000 sagum Re: Show Us Your Tech: 'Softie Builds Nuke Reactor in Garage Fantasic insight, I'd love to see some more stuff like that.

posted by DevTez

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Show-Us-Your-Tech-Nuclear-Edition#c634420964420000000 Fri, 27 May 2011 12:34:02 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Show-Us-Your-Tech-Nuclear-Edition#c634420964420000000 DevTez Re: Show Us Your Tech: 'Softie Builds Nuke Reactor in Garage posted by Ms S

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Show-Us-Your-Tech-Nuclear-Edition#c634421371310000000 Fri, 27 May 2011 23:52:11 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Show-Us-Your-Tech-Nuclear-Edition#c634421371310000000 Ms S Re: Show Us Your Tech: 'Softie Builds Nuke Reactor in Garage
Here is a cylindrical attempt, also a work in progress:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUfJn2JGlk8

posted by JonathanH13

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Show-Us-Your-Tech-Nuclear-Edition#c634422782890000000 Sun, 29 May 2011 15:04:49 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Show-Us-Your-Tech-Nuclear-Edition#c634422782890000000 JonathanH13 Re: Show Us Your Tech: 'Softie Builds Nuke Reactor in Garage WOW.

Your passion is great. I wish you important breakthroughs. It is this passion that keeps humankind survivie.

Nuclear energy is good. The only problem is storage and disposal.

posted by Afsal

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Show-Us-Your-Tech-Nuclear-Edition#c634422875690000000 Sun, 29 May 2011 17:39:29 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Show-Us-Your-Tech-Nuclear-Edition#c634422875690000000 Afsal Re: Show Us Your Tech: 'Softie Builds Nuke Reactor in Garage posted by Bosan

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Show-Us-Your-Tech-Nuclear-Edition#c634424385580000000 Tue, 31 May 2011 11:35:58 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Show-Us-Your-Tech-Nuclear-Edition#c634424385580000000 Bosan Re: Show Us Your Tech: 'Softie Builds Nuke Reactor in Garage
The late Dr. Robert W. Bussard was also working on a variant of the Farnsworth fusion called Polywell. Check out http://www.emc2fusion.org and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell or watch the Google-Talk video here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1996321846673788606#

Unlike the Farnsworth Fusor, Dr. Bussard's design might actually reach "break-even" and be used to produce power. Also Dr. Bussard's design would fuse Hydrogen and Boron with no neutron radiation. I.e. no induced radioactivity in the reactor chamber. No radioactive waste at all.

posted by Paul Smith

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Show-Us-Your-Tech-Nuclear-Edition#c634424461300000000 Tue, 31 May 2011 13:42:10 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Show-Us-Your-Tech-Nuclear-Edition#c634424461300000000 Paul Smith Re: Show Us Your Tech: 'Softie Builds Nuke Reactor in Garage Carl Greninger is on the right track, i hope more people will adopt this.

To Carl Greninger:
Why didn't you crank it up to max ?
Is it badly built so it can't handle it ?

posted by Mr Crash

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posted by Kaylee O

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Show-Us-Your-Tech-Nuclear-Edition#c634424880230000000 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 01:20:23 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Show-Us-Your-Tech-Nuclear-Edition#c634424880230000000 Kaylee O Re: Show Us Your Tech: 'Softie Builds Nuke Reactor in Garage posted by Krystal

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Show-Us-Your-Tech-Nuclear-Edition#c634424952240000000 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 03:20:24 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Show-Us-Your-Tech-Nuclear-Edition#c634424952240000000 Krystal Re: Show Us Your Tech: 'Softie Builds Nuke Reactor in Garage Trying to do stuff like this is what got me kicked out of high school science class; not because of my teacher, she liked the idea, but because administration thought I was some sort of terrorist.

posted by Zer0mass

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Show-Us-Your-Tech-Nuclear-Edition#c634426382950000000 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:04:55 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Show-Us-Your-Tech-Nuclear-Edition#c634426382950000000 Zer0mass Re: Show Us Your Tech: 'Softie Builds Nuke Reactor in Garage @Zer0mass:

I nearly got expelled from high school for promoting a social networking kind of website (yes, before Facebook existed) in my high school, so I feel your pain. Smiley

posted by Bass

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posted by Clint

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Show-Us-Your-Tech-Nuclear-Edition#c634430237060000000 Tue, 07 Jun 2011 06:08:26 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Show-Us-Your-Tech-Nuclear-Edition#c634430237060000000 Clint Re: Show Us Your Tech: 'Softie Builds Nuke Reactor in Garage posted by Snympi

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Show-Us-Your-Tech-Nuclear-Edition#c634430289030000000 Tue, 07 Jun 2011 07:35:03 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Show-Us-Your-Tech-Nuclear-Edition#c634430289030000000 Snympi Re: Show Us Your Tech: 'Softie Builds Nuke Reactor in Garage very good Chat

posted by beyzam

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Show-Us-Your-Tech-Nuclear-Edition#c634430321290000000 Tue, 07 Jun 2011 08:28:49 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Show-Us-Your-Tech-Nuclear-Edition#c634430321290000000 beyzam Re: Show Us Your Tech: 'Softie Builds Nuke Reactor in Garage
No, The max is 50,000 Volts. We have a Ballast Resistor that only allows that much. We've gone higher without the resistor. But, we ended up toasting 2 of our many Diodes. Yes, it uses up quite a lot of juice. We have to run the machine from 2 seperate circuits in the house so we dont pop any breakers. We are currently redesigning it to use the same amount of power as we have been, but having it concentrated to where it needs to be. Half of our current has been jumping towards the metal at the bottom of our vacuum. We'll see what happens after we get that fixed! :)

~Jayce

posted by Jayce Glenn

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Show-Us-Your-Tech-Nuclear-Edition#c634437909920000000 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 03:16:32 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech/Show-Us-Your-Tech-Nuclear-Edition#c634437909920000000 Jayce Glenn