Fusor reactor

I went to a staff development event for work yesterday (yes, Saturday). Amongst other things we had a lecture from Dave Elliot, a professor of engineering on renewable energy. He has just retired but his web site is still here on the OU site, otherwise find him on wikipedia.

A couple of things stick in mind:

1. there's no point in building nuclear reactors because we've only got enough fuel for it to last a few years, then we'll have to find something else and have to deal with the nuclear waste for thousands of years.
2. fusor reactors are absorbing 50% of research money on renewable energy, but it will take up to a hundred years to build something useful

He mentioned this newsletter web site http://www.natta-renew.org/ if you want to keep up to date, which I'll have to do because son is planning to build a fusor reactor over the summer and his university is supporting him.