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 2 Amazon $40 Trillion Fusion Energy Threatens Petrodollar, China-Russia-India Reactors
Inspired Earth
29 minutes
1 month ago
Episode 46: Part 2 Amazon $40 Trillion Fusion Energy Threatens Petrodollar, China-Russia-India Reactors
Energy abundance isn’t a slogan; it’s a lever that can move the whole economy. We dig into where fusion stands today, why major players are piling in, and how the technology could redraw power maps—from city grids and data centers to farms, fabs, and even spacecraft. Along the way, we challenge the funding paradox: if the physics is working at small scales, what will it take to prove plants that run year-round and deliver cheaper, cleaner electricity to actual customers? We connect the dots ...
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...
