Im interested in fusion for many years now. Started in junior high doing things with science. Home chemistry lab, made rockets and explosives mainly. When I lived in Washington DC, I haunted museums and libraries. Started working with high voltage when I was 16. The books that changed my life (for good or ill) was the the little handouts the AEC had for under a dollar. I learned all about fission technology, uranium burners, breaders, tracers, fuel cycles, energy conversion. Besides the Los Alamos Primer ( a buck & 60 in the early sixtes ) there was a book on fusion. When I went to the service I got to hang around Mark 20 hydrogen bombs, read the manuals that weren't Q level. I also cruised the patent books, that is how I knew about the fusor back in the seventies. Marriage and business prevented any free time for experimental work. I was injured in an industrial accident and suffered a stroke. After a three year recovery , sans wife, I went back to school, and rediscovered my burning need to tinker. I am now free to do what I want when I want. I am finacially strapped after the divorce and retraining. I start teaching in the fall. I will start rebuilding my lab from scratch , with an aim for fusion. (my ex yard sold all my stuff when I fell ill.) I followed you guys with great interest and made a pest of myself at the fusor patent site. I have read Richard Rhodes Dark Sun and the A bomb History from cover to cover in the hospital. I spent 12 years in aerospace as a designer and repair person on F-4 jet avionics and airframe for sale abroad. I have some experience with high mass flow heat transfer items. I have experience with gamma ray spectrography, and flash xray. I believe this aproach to fusion will work if the key problem of grid heating can be solved. I have a background in intruments and measurements with an eye toward radiation detection.
Larry Leins Ole Miss Rebel larryleins@hotmail.com
Created on Monday, April 23, 2001 12:56 PM EDT by larry l Leins Last Modified on Tuesday, April 24, 2001 10:15 AM EDT by larry l Leins