Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Basement Nuclear Fusion

Some of the best known companies were initially created and run from individuals’ basements and garages.  An aspect of being American that is reminiscent of days gone by, when individuals were more apt to go it alone, rather than searching the state’s hand for goodies ill gotten for re-distributive purposes.

Thiago Olson, a 17 year old young man from Rochestor Hills, Michigan, has been tinkering in his parent’s basement, and this is what he has come up with.

In the basement of his parents’ Oakland Township home, tucked away in an area most aren’t privy to see, Thiago is exhausting his love of physics on a project that has taken him more than two years and 1,000 hours to research and build—a large, intricate machine that , on a small scale, creates nuclear fusion.

Excellent.  I admire the young man’s ability.  But, I would counsel the young man to set his aspirations a bit higher, so that his creativity is not ill used.

Someday, he hopes to work for the federal government—just like his grandfather, Clarence Olson, who designed tanks for the Department of Defense after World War II.

TEEN GOES NUCLEAR: He creates fusion in his Oakland Township home

Posted by John Venlet on 12/06 at 07:37 AM
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