Mark Suppes hopes to solve the world’s energy problems with limitless cheap, clean energy — on a tabletop
Last November, the Gucci web designer turned do-it-yourself fusion engineer Mark Suppes hunched over a silvery chamber with wires and plastic tubes sprouting in every direction. Engrossed in his work, he finally looked up, smiled, and said, “Okay, I think we’re almost ready to fuse the atom.”
Mordecai-Mark Mac Low is a curator of astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
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