Closing Bell: DIY Nuclear Reactor
This has already gotten some coverage today, but it’s worth mentioning again: in a warehouse on a tree lined Bed Stuy street, resident Mark Suppes has built his own nuclear reactor. He is the 38th amateur scientist to do so. According to the BBC, his neighbors don’t seem to mind and the procedure is apparently…
This has already gotten some coverage today, but it’s worth mentioning again: in a warehouse on a tree lined Bed Stuy street, resident Mark Suppes has built his own nuclear reactor. He is the 38th amateur scientist to do so. According to the BBC, his neighbors don’t seem to mind and the procedure is apparently legal and safe. Suppes’ goal is to solve the world’s energy crisis, and we don’t think Bed Stuy’s a bad place to do it.
Extreme DIY: Building a Home Nuclear Reactor in NYC [BBC]
Not to Worry About that Nuclear Reactor on Your Street [NY Mag]
Dude is Building a Nuclear Reactor in Bed Stuy [Bed Stuy Blog]
Photo from Bed Stuy Blog via BBC.
This is such a whatever item. You can call it a nuclear reactor but it has basically nothing in common with the reactors that do scary bad things (like chernobyl, that one was pretty scary and bad). Call it a fusion experimentation device or something. Nuclear reactor just conjures up all the wrong images.
Seems like this guy is, or should be in PR–but where’s the electricity?
The only bad thing about this: it kind of feeds the delusion and/or propaganda, from the White House on down, that we will be “green” any time soon.
meh denton, he just looks like a beardo in a training bra.
whoever said we need more people like this tho is spot on!
::returns to build a device that can solve the world’s energy crisis using recycle non smelly poo mist::
*rob*
Actually in the pic he does look kinda Muslim, he’s got a lil’ beard thing going on, he’s a liil’ dark and shit.
rob, that’s definitely the funniest comment in weeks!
lol imagine the reaction to this if this guy looked muslim.
*rob*
if 11217 gets his hands on one of these I am steering clear of Brooklyn AND Buenos Aires!
What happened to the good old days when nutty scientists built time travel machines in their basement or transmorphing chambers that could turn a person into a fly? Now that’s harmless fun!
Pretty cool — this is fusion, not fission (like Indian Pont and 3 Mile Island…), so it’s safe, doesn’t produce nuclear waste, nothing. I remember being in college and having a nutty (I thought) friend tell me about this and thinking, “Yeah, right, never gonna happen.” Would be very cool if this became possible on a large-scale (an international venture, with funding from the US and others, is to build one in France by 2019).