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

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article...EWS03/611190639

pretty F'ing amazing!

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.

Nuclear fusion -- when atoms are combined to create energy -- is "kind of like the holy grail of physics," he said.

In fact, on www.fusor.net, the Stoney Creek senior is ranked as the 18th amateur in the world to create nuclear fusion.

Physicists have dreamt about it for decades: harnessing the fusion process that powers the sun to make clean, safe and limitless energy. A multinational pact signed Tuesday may bring that dream a step closer to reality.

6 nations plus EU sign accord for nuclear fusion project

So cool and unbelievable, what an incrediable kid. California has some good news for youth with this story.

"If fusion one day manages to produce electricity, it will surely not be in acceptable economic, ecological and industrial conditions," it said in a statement Tuesday.

Sounds like one of those statements history looks at and laughs. Let's hope.

But the quart of seawater = a quart of oil in energy via fusion seems wrong. I thought fusion was able to extract much more energy than that.