nuclear fusion powerstation in your basement

[vandivx]

stellarator <br /><br />stuff like this is what private enterprise means at its best, maybe the time is not far off when we should be able to buy a fusion kit to assemble in our basements as PPS (private power station)<br /><br />that guy is amazing, I am not sure though if I would like to live in that house upstairs or even in the neigbourhood <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /><br /><br />if you don't know what a stellarator is which was my case, here is nfo Stellarator<br /><br />and do not miss this link on that guy's site More LAB. photos <br /><br />all done in his garage at the cost of some 3700 Euros and 2000 work hours<br /><br />vanDivX <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[docm]

Bussards IEF could be better. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[pyoko]

I remember there was a kid who built one in his parents garage. Apparently he used material from radon (?) watches? (the ones that glow in the dark that are now illegal to manufacture). He collected hundreds of broken watches for his endeavour. I don't recall how but he got caught and presumably fined.<br /><br />Someone have a link maybe? I'm 90% sure this is not an urban legend. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="color:#ff9900" class="Apple-style-span">-pyoko</span> <span style="color:#333333" class="Apple-style-span">the</span> <span style="color:#339966" class="Apple-style-span">duck </span></p><p><span style="color:#339966" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color:#808080;font-style:italic" class="Apple-style-span">It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.</span></span></p> </div>

 

[vandivx]

probably those can't be compared, IEF is about some $150 to 200 millions vs several k Euros, I think he has done it to show something like that can be done even at home, however the know how is forbiding to all but very few<br /><br />the guy even developped and patented a milling machine that works on toroidal coordinates (as opposed to normal x.y.z. coords) to be able to make growes for coils around that toroid, that's just one crazy mofo <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /><br /><br />vanDivX <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[vandivx]

must have been this one<br />teen_creates_nuclear_fusion_basement/<br /><br /><blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>Thiago’s mom, Natalice Olson, initially was leery of the project, even though the only real danger from the fusion machine is the high voltage and small amount of X-rays emitted through a glass window in the vacuum chamber — through which Olson videotapes the fusion in action.<br /><br />But, she wasn’t really surprised, because he was always coming up with lofty ideas.<br /><br />“Originally, he wanted to build a hyperbolic chamber,” she said, adding that she promptly said no. But, when he came asking about the nuclear fusion machine, she relented.<p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br /><img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> <br /><br />thiago-olsons-nuclear-fusion-reactor-aka-the-fusor/<br /><br />vanDivX <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[MeteorWayne]

Hmmm, sounds like a hyperbolic story <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>