This time I’m not going to talk about a technology, but a person who’s about the same age with me, but already working on how to change the earth into a better place. A real life inspiration.

Kids can really change the world.

I never believe that phrase before I know Taylor Wilson from the Ted talk he made. He is one hell of a kid. By how, let me ask you a question: What were you doing when you were 14? Me? Watching anime at home and tries to figure how to get my new DS. But Taylor, this amazing kid, build a fusion reactor in a garage and become the 32th and the youngest person who preform a Deuterium Fusion reaction, then he met the president for a science project that he made, which is a nuclear weapon detector that could crush the detector that NSA is currently using.

What’s up with this kid?

Well as far as I know, he just works really hard on fulfilling his dream. His family background was so normal that most of the people who are reading this will have a much more interesting background than him. He was born in Arkansas in 1994. His family has nothing special—not even rich. His dad was a low level worker at the local Coca-Cola factory. His mom was a yoga teacher. He was just a normal kid to everyone else until he was 5 years old. On his birthday, he is a crane. But when his parents brought him to the toy store, he screams at them and asks for a real one.

Fast forward to when he was 11. After he tries to make jet fuel but instead he figures how to build a homemade bomb and create a huge mushroom cloud in his back yard. His grandma decides to bring him back to a life of a normal child. She decide to give him a book. The book was called the radioactive boy scout, their story is about a kid study nuclear reactor at home and at the end the boy scout was picked up by the police. Ironically, this is was in fact the book that triggers Taylor’s “nuclear fever”. Starting with borrowing a Geiger’s meter, he started to scavenge radioactive object. In the end, their garage be come such a dangerous place that when people ask him “is that broken bottle as the same with the one you said that’s going to kill us if it breaks?” he will answer “be cool, not so fast.”

At the age of 13, his father decides to send him to the Davis College. There he met his mentor Dr. Ronald Phaneuf. From that point, he starts to make yellow cake, listen to the high level of physic class, eventually build a fusion reactor. Two years ago, he was graduated from high school and give a Ted talk, review his project of a new, cheap, safe and highly efficient nuclear power plant. Which can last at least 30 years.

All of these begin with a child word with her mom: ”mom. I want to creat a star in the garage”.