Jeg hedder Taylor Wilson. Jeg er 17 år, og jeg er kernefysiker, hvilket kan være en smule svært at tro, men det er jeg. Og jeg vil argumentere for, at kernefusion vil være det punkt, som den bro, T. Boone Pickens talte om, vil tage os til. Kernefusion er vores fremtids energi. Og den anden pointe, at forsvare, at børn virkelig kan ændre verden.
So my name is Taylor Wilson. I am 17 years old and I am a nuclear physicist, which may be 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 nuclear fusion is our energy future. And the second point, making the case that kids can really change the world.
Så I spørger måske -- (Bifald) I spørger mig måske, hvordan ved du, hvordan vores fremtids energi er? Jeg byggede en fusionsreaktor, da jeg var 14. Det er indersiden af min kernefusionsreaktor. Jeg begyndte at bygge dette projekt, da jeg var 12 eller 13. Jeg besluttede at lave en stjerne.
So you may ask -- (Applause) 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 wanted to make a star.
De fleste af jer siger nok, kernefusion findes slet ikke. Jeg ser ingen atomkraftværker med fusionsenergi. Det går ikke op endnu. Det producerer ikke mere energi, end jeg tilfører, men det gør nogle ret seje ting. Jeg samlede dette i min garage, og nu lever det i fysikafdelingen på University of Nevada, Reno. Og det slår deuterium sammen, hvilket bare er hydrogen med en ekstra neutron. Dette ligner reaktionen af protonkæden, der foregår inden i Solen. Og jeg slår det sammen så hårdt, at hydrogenet sammensmelter, og i processen har det nogle biprodukter, og jeg udnytter de biprodukter.
Now most of you are probably saying, 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 some pretty cool stuff. And I assembled this in my garage, and it now lives in the physics department of the University of Nevada, Reno. And it slams 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.
Sidste år vandt jeg Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Jeg udviklede en detektor, der erstatter de nuværende, som Homeland Security har. For hundreder af dollars har jeg udviklet et system, der overgår følsomheden af detektorer, der koster hundredtusindvis af dollars. Jeg byggede denne i min garage.
So this previous year, I won the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. I developed a detector that replaces the current detectors that Homeland Security has. For hundreds of dollars, I've developed a system that exceeds the sensitivity of detectors that are hundreds of thousands of dollars. I built this in my garage.
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Og jeg har udviklet et system til at producere medicinske isotoper. I stedet for at behøve multi-million-dollars faciliteter har jeg udviklet et apparat, der på lille skala kan producere disse isotoper.
And I've developed a system to produce medical isotopes. Instead of requiring multi-million-dollar facilities I've developed a device that, on a very small scale, can produce these isotopes.
Det er min fusionsreaktor i baggrunden. Det er mig ved kontrolpanelet til min fusionsreaktor. Forresten laver jeg urankoncentrat i min garage, så mit atomprogram er lige så avanceret som iranernes. Måske vil jeg ikke erkende det. Dette er mig på CERN i Geneve, Schweiz, som er verdens førende partikelfysiklaboratorium. Og her er jeg med Præsident Obama, visende min Homeland Security forskning.
So that's my fusion reactor in the background there. That is me at the control panel of 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 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.
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Så på omkring syv år med atomforskning startede jeg med en drøm om at lave en "stjerne i en krukke," i min garage, og jeg endte med at møde præsidenten og udvikle ting, som jeg tror kan ændre verden, og jeg tror andre børn også kan. Så mange tak.
So in about seven years of doing nuclear research, I started out with a dream to make a "star in a jar," a star in my garage, and I ended up meeting the president and developing things that I think can change the world, and I think other kids can too. So thank you very much.
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