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 3 Amazon $40 Trillion Fusion Energy Threatens Petrodollar, China-Russia-India Reactors
Inspired Earth
52 minutes
1 month ago
Episode 46: Part 3 Amazon $40 Trillion Fusion Energy Threatens Petrodollar, China-Russia-India Reactors
What if cheaper, abundant energy didn’t just lower your bill but rewired global power? We dive into the fast-emerging world of fusion and small modular reactors to map how falling energy costs could shift household finances, unsettle the petrodollar, and fuel the AI boom. Along the way, we unpack why materials and superconductors matter, how turbine and precision-engineering players could benefit, and where the chip crunch collides with AI’s hunger for power. We take you inside the Idaho Nat...
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...
