Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Farnsworth fusion device revealed after years of Pentagon secrecy.
Philo Farnsworth, the Idaho farm boy who invented the television while plowing a field with mules, had some ideas about fusion. The late Dr. Robert Bussard, best known as inventor of the Bussard ramjet idea for nuclear powered insterstellar travel [idea might actually be Carl Sagan's], who had a company called EMC(2), Energy Matter Conversion Corporation, has been working to turn these ideas into reality. BoingBoing. Google Talks lecture and slides. Sundry links. Obit.
Mad scientist shop flickr set, Black Hole of Los Alamos. Slashdot had this back in October, I missed it somehow.
Philo Farnsworth, the Idaho farm boy who invented the television while plowing a field with mules, had some ideas about fusion. The late Dr. Robert Bussard, best known as inventor of the Bussard ramjet idea for nuclear powered insterstellar travel [idea might actually be Carl Sagan's], who had a company called EMC(2), Energy Matter Conversion Corporation, has been working to turn these ideas into reality. BoingBoing. Google Talks lecture and slides. Sundry links. Obit.
Mad scientist shop flickr set, Black Hole of Los Alamos. Slashdot had this back in October, I missed it somehow.
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