Quote Originally Posted by ben4372 View Post
Recently finished a book about chemistry that has a story about a teen that collected smoke detectors and was actually on the right track to fusion before the gov stepped in. I think this was pre internet. Imagine what he could do with this.
They are already printing food. And they are really in high gear in molecular science. Exciting times.
He wasn't developing a fusion reactor, he was trying to build a breeder reactor.

Also, he's dead.


https://arstechnica-com.cdn.ampproje...ied-at-age-39/