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Stephen Knight
"... habitat other planets..."???
Sounds like he needs to supplement his physics credentials with a little remedial English.
I wonder what the broader scientific community thinks of his ideas.
IparryU
English skills are not that big of a deal Stephen... I would rather have the kid make something that could change the world.
Jeff Ogrisseg
Unfortunately, the global Energy Cabal will simply buy up his designs and patents and bury the device if it threatens their profit.
Wakarimasen
Wasn't this on CSI just the other night?
Mohamed Al Hashimi
Japan Safety first, Japanese should build three safety walls between every wall large distance and space so if the nuclear reactor leaks some radioactive will affect the first wall also may destroy the first wall so the second wall will be affected by the radioactive then the third wall will be in good condition hopefully. By Student Mohamed Al Hashimi
lostrune2
Yeah but could it generate 1.21 gigawatts of electricity from trash?
sengoku38
Terra Power also has had a similar design for several years now, but it will be nice to see more practical applications of clean energy.
basroil
Stephen KnightMar. 01, 2013 - 10:53AM JST
They actually think the kid is brilliant and not worthy of your insults.
badsey3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B0PaSznWJE
2011 ISEF (ex-Westinghouse Science) Award winner
http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2011/05/13/young-scientists-use-tin-in-potential-new-cancer-treatment (3rd from left in picture)
LFRAgain
Stephen Knight,
I'll second Basroil. The scientific community thinks pretty highly of Taylor, as do other notable entities in the U.S. field of nuclear technologies. According to a February 2012 Popular Science article:
Yeah, I'd say he's pretty undeserving of your attempts to belittle him for a simple vocabulary error.
Kristianna Thomas
I am not an advocate of the Nuclear Industry, whiich seems to me to be just an over rated steam engine just to do something simple; like turn a turbine; So we all get our own personal nuke that will be an end user to the giant nuclear giants; who will get these mini-nukes and who won't? Can you imagine the city of New York powered by a million mini-nukes? Who will by from the big producers; we can live on the nuclear wastes for at least; what is its half life? Nuclear is forever.