Nuclear Couture

Like peanut butter and jelly, fashion and nuclear physics is clearly a match made in heaven. From the BBC:

By day, Mark Suppes is a web developer for fashion giant Gucci. By night, he cycles to a New York warehouse and tinkers with his own nuclear fusion reactor.

In a hired workshop on the third floor, a high-pitched buzz emanates from a corner dotted with metal scraps and ominous-looking machinery, as Mr. Suppes fires up his device and searches for the answer to a question that has eluded some of the finest scientific minds on the planet.

Mr. Suppes, 32, is part of a growing community of “fusioneers” - amateur science junkies who are building homemade fusion reactors, for fun and with an eye to being part of the solution to that problem. He is the 38th independent amateur physicist in the world to achieve nuclear fusion from a homemade reactor, according to community site Fusor.net.

“I was inspired because I believed I was looking at a technology that could actually work to solve our energy problems, and I believed it was something that I could at least begin to build,” Mr. Suppes told the BBC.

Solving the world’s problems and possibly eligible for a Gucci Group discount…is he single?