Nuclear Fusion with LabVIEW - Intel ISEF Winner

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I've got to share this application with you (I have permission from the programmer). Eric Foss recently built a nuclear reactor, using Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC). The advantage of this approach is that it can be done with basic equipment. Nuclear Fusion also presents an interesting option fro future energy- no air pollution, no greenhouse gases, very little waste, no risk of "uncontrolled energy release," and no generation of weapons material.

So Eric set out to build a Nuclear Fusion Reactor:

After this, the information gets pretty mathematical, as Eric compared Paschen's lay to Miley's relationship. The reason this caught my eye is that Eric is a high school senior in the Seattle area, and this was his entry into the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair last week, Where Eric won the 2nd place Grand Award, along with the right to name his own asteroid. More than 1,500 students from 50 countries participated in the competition.

The other reason I think this is a great application? Eric used LabVIEW as his data acquisition platform.

Congratulations Eric, on a job well done.