Famulus Makes Wired
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 3:49 pm
From: http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive ... ar-reactor
For the past four years, Brooklyn web designer Mark Suppes has been building a nuclear-fusion reactor in the corner of a friend's cluttered warehouse -- even though he has no background in nuclear physics, has never even studied electrical engineering and has a full-time website job at The New York Times.
Suppes, 34, was inspired by a video made by Robert Bussard, one of fusion's pioneers, on the technology's potential to solve the world's energy problems. "I couldn't think of a better project to get involved in," he says.