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the big i. just before the break, carol costello introduced us to mark supp suppes, who has put together a nuclear reactor at a warehouse in brooklyn. he joins us now live from our studios in new york. and you know, mark, first things first. you design websites for gucci? that s correct. so, you know, where do you cross paths with nuclear fusion? how did you get into this? i ve been an entrepreneur for almost ten years now. and i ve done a lot of web start-ups and a lot of technology. and very comfortable looking at a problem and identifying an opportunity. and so you re sitting around, looking at a problem like how can i put together a nuclear reactor in this warehouse? and solve the energy crisis. i would say it was more like i was between start-ups and i saw this video that busar gave and i was so inspired and it looked like such a winning solution to the energy problem.
by doing an open source project, i hope to bring the process of discovery to the public and showing the public what it takes to do original science and to kind of move forward. very exciting to show the process of this. has the group done any kind of reachout to you? are they interested in what you re coming up with, the group that s already doing this in new mexico? they know about my project. i think to the degree that they can reach out to me, they have. but they have restrictions on what they can say and do. mark supas, from new york. thanks, mark. appreciate it. the world cup s closing in on its final games and the world is watching. we re bringing you to south africa next. for the aches and sleeplessness in between, there s new motrin pm. no other medicine, not even advil pm, is more effective for pain and sleeplessness. new motrin pm.