Curiosity can glow bright enough to light a room—or trigger a Geiger counter. We follow a remarkable arc from a twelve-year-old who assembled a working fusion setup out of surplus parts to a whistleblower whose warnings shook a nuclear powerhouse. The contrast is stark: a kid scavenging eBay for a turbomolecular pump, validating fusion with an open research consortium, and then answering to the FBI; a lab technician documenting contamination, faulty gear, and missing plutonium, only to vanish...
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Curiosity can glow bright enough to light a room—or trigger a Geiger counter. We follow a remarkable arc from a twelve-year-old who assembled a working fusion setup out of surplus parts to a whistleblower whose warnings shook a nuclear powerhouse. The contrast is stark: a kid scavenging eBay for a turbomolecular pump, validating fusion with an open research consortium, and then answering to the FBI; a lab technician documenting contamination, faulty gear, and missing plutonium, only to vanish...
Episode 46: Part 1 Amazon $40 Trillion Fusion Energy Threatens Petrodollar, China-Russia-India Reactors
Inspired Earth
33 minutes
1 month ago
Episode 46: Part 1 Amazon $40 Trillion Fusion Energy Threatens Petrodollar, China-Russia-India Reactors
What happens when the promise of near-zero-marginal-cost electricity crashes into a system built on pricing power? We dive into the messy reality of fusion’s big moment—where genuine breakthroughs, Amazon-adjacent initiatives, and investor hype collide—and ask who actually benefits if “mini suns” start lighting our grid. We start with the stark contrast shaping the future: models that aim to drive energy prices down versus models designed to preserve profit. Along the way, we unpack General ...
Inspired Earth
Curiosity can glow bright enough to light a room—or trigger a Geiger counter. We follow a remarkable arc from a twelve-year-old who assembled a working fusion setup out of surplus parts to a whistleblower whose warnings shook a nuclear powerhouse. The contrast is stark: a kid scavenging eBay for a turbomolecular pump, validating fusion with an open research consortium, and then answering to the FBI; a lab technician documenting contamination, faulty gear, and missing plutonium, only to vanish...
