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I’ve got a job. My first job. And it is freaking awesome. Well, it’s kind of a job. Technically it’s a paid internship, but I guess there’s really not that much of a difference. Anyway, I’m being paid to research at the Princeton Plasma Physics

I have built a DC magnetron ion source for IEC Reactor MK. III  in hopes that it would stabilize reactor operation and perhaps even increase neutron rates. The ion source consists of a .05” diameter x 1” length stainless anode aligned coaxially i

I have received many questions about how exactly my reactor operates so here is a post explaining it. The inertial electrostatic confinement fusion reactor is a device that uses electrostatic fields to accelerate and confine a deuterium plasma to a c

A laser with no optical cavity that operates at atmospheric pressure…wait…what? Yes, you heard me right, this is a laser that uses no mirrors to bounce light back and forth (an optical cavity or resonator), no special gas mixture, and operates at

So, a while back I stumbled [url=http://www.technologyreview.com/view/515651/bell-labs-invents-lensless-camera/]across this article[/url]. To summarize it, Bell Labs built a single pixel camera that needs no lenses to operate… pretty cool concept right

Alright, I need to confess to a terrible habit of mine: I lose pens like it is my job. While I have been making strides in keeping track of my pens it is still a problem, so I figured what might help would be having a pen that I have some sort of personal

Recently I've been working on a new reactor, IEC Fusion Reactor MK III. Unlike its predecessor, MK III is based in a small, 1.5 in diameter, cross shaped chamber. Small reactor designs have shown promise of high efficiency and high neutron rates, and

I recently shot a couple of videos of my air cannon and put them in a compilation. The camera used was a casio Exilim Fc-100. Enjoy! [youtube]1I-npNUVVFU[/youtube]

Here’s a video of the talk I gave in Berlin about the fusion reactors I’ve built: [youtube]dS_l9HED3yQ[/youtube]

This page covers my Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion Reactor MK II, which fuses ions of deuterium into helium-3 through inertial electrostatic confinement. In order to learn about how it works, visit the Basics of IEC Fusion page I have written.&

I have been pretty down recently because rather than building awesome things, I’ve been writing tons of college and scholarship applications. But, that all paid off just a few days ago when I found out that I had been accepted to MIT!I have been feeling

Sorry I haven't written for a while, but the science fair and school have completely consumed my life. This is just a quick update on the fusor. I am currently upgrading my vacuum system and and adding in a diffusion pump, which is a type of high

I’m not going to lie, I totally forgot to update this blog over the summer, but in the future I’m going to try to keep it a bit more current. Anyway, a lot of things have happened since I last posted! I am working on building a new reactor, IEC fu

Recently I competed in a series of local and regional science fairs, and I have been selected as a grand prize winner to head to the Intel International Science Fair in Pittsburgh! I will have the reactor there, so if anybody wants to come see it and chat