Questions of the Week
How much energy from the sun reaches the earth?
How much energy does civilization use today?
What is an unlikely resource that is becoming an energy treasure?
What law states that energy is neither created or destroyed when it is transferred?
What is the word origin for friction?
Scientist of the Week
I was born on May 7, 1994.
I am an American nuclear physics enthusiast and science advocate.
In 2008, I achieved nuclear fusion using an inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC) device, which was a variation of the fusor, invented by Philo T. Farnsworth in 1964.
In June 2012, I was awarded a Thiel Fellowship. The two-year $100,000 fellowship requires recipients to forgo college for the duration of the fellowship.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Department of Energy offered federal funding to me concerning research I conducted in building inexpensive Cherenkov radiation detectors.
I designed a variation of a compact molten salt reactor that would supply about 50 MW and would need refueling only once every 30 years.
Daily Questions
Where did the power that is stored in the chemical bonds of natural gas, oil, and coal come from?
How much potential energy does 1 pound of enriched uranium hold compared to coal?
How do you get the sum of total energy in a closed system?
What is one way to reduce friction?
What is the process that plants use to store chemical energy?
Where does the energy originally come from in coal, gasoline and wood?