摘自:Naver
So, my name is Taylor Wilson, I am 17 years old, and I am a nuclear physicist, which, maybe a little hard to believe, but I am. And, I would like to make the case that nuclear fusion will be that point that the bridge that T. Boone Pickens talked about will get us to. So, the nuclear fusion is our energy future, and the second point making the case that kids can really change the world. So, you may ask me, well, how do you know what our energy future is? Well, I built a fusion reactor when I was 14 years old. That is the inside of my nuclear fusion reactor. I started building this project when I was about 12 or 13 years old. I decided I want to make a star.
Now, most of you are probably say, well, there*s no such thing as nuclear fusion, I don*t see any nuclear power plants with fusion energy. Well, it doesn*t break even. It doesn*t produce more energy out than I put in. But it still does pretty cool stuff. And I assembled this my garage, and it now lives in the physics department in the University of Nevada, Reno. And it slam together deuterium, which is just hydrogen with an extra neutron in it.
So, this is similar to the reaction of the proton chain, that*s going on inside the sun, and I*m slamming it together so hard that that hydrogen fuses together. And in the process, it has some byproducts, and I utilize those byproducts.
So, I, this previous year, I won the Intel international science and engineering fair. I developed the detector that replaces the current detectors that Homeland Security has. For hundreds of dollars I developed this system that exceeds sensitivity of detectors that are hundreds of thousands of dollars. I built this in my garage.
And I*ve developed a system to produce medical isotopes, instead of requiring multi million dollar facilities, I developed a device that on a very small scale, can produce these isotope.
So, that*s my fusion reactor in the background there. That is me at the control panel on my fusion reactor. Oh, by the way, I make yellowcake in my garage, so, my nuclear program is as advanced as the Iranians. So, maybe I don*t want to admit that to that.
This is me at CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland, which is the preeminent particle physics laboratory in the world. And, this is me with president Obama, showing him my Homeland Security research. So, in about seven years of doing nuclear research, I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar, star in my garage, and I end up meeting the president and developing things that I thinks can change the world and I think other kids can do. So thank you very much.
So, my name is Taylor Wilson, I am 17 years old, and I am a nuclear physicist, which, maybe a little hard to believe, but I am. And, I would like to make the case that nuclear fusion will be that point that the bridge that T. Boone Pickens talked about will get us to. So, the nuclear fusion is our energy future, and the second point making the case that kids can really change the world. So, you may ask me, well, how do you know what our energy future is? Well, I built a fusion reactor when I was 14 years old. That is the inside of my nuclear fusion reactor. I started building this project when I was about 12 or 13 years old. I decided I want to make a star.
Now, most of you are probably say, well, there*s no such thing as nuclear fusion, I don*t see any nuclear power plants with fusion energy. Well, it doesn*t break even. It doesn*t produce more energy out than I put in. But it still does pretty cool stuff. And I assembled this my garage, and it now lives in the physics department in the University of Nevada, Reno. And it slam together deuterium, which is just hydrogen with an extra neutron in it.
So, this is similar to the reaction of the proton chain, that*s going on inside the sun, and I*m slamming it together so hard that that hydrogen fuses together. And in the process, it has some byproducts, and I utilize those byproducts.
So, I, this previous year, I won the Intel international science and engineering fair. I developed the detector that replaces the current detectors that Homeland Security has. For hundreds of dollars I developed this system that exceeds sensitivity of detectors that are hundreds of thousands of dollars. I built this in my garage.
And I*ve developed a system to produce medical isotopes, instead of requiring multi million dollar facilities, I developed a device that on a very small scale, can produce these isotope.
So, that*s my fusion reactor in the background there. That is me at the control panel on my fusion reactor. Oh, by the way, I make yellowcake in my garage, so, my nuclear program is as advanced as the Iranians. So, maybe I don*t want to admit that to that.
This is me at CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland, which is the preeminent particle physics laboratory in the world. And, this is me with president Obama, showing him my Homeland Security research. So, in about seven years of doing nuclear research, I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar, star in my garage, and I end up meeting the president and developing things that I thinks can change the world and I think other kids can do. So thank you very much.