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Build a Nuclear Fusion Reactor at Home
FridayBob writes "For those of you tired of waiting around for someone else to achieve the holy grail of physics, now's your chance to beat 'em all to it. All you need is some basic engineering skills, this site and the inspiration necessary to make your very own 'fusor' produce more energy than it consumes. Hopefully, you'll have more luck than its inventor, Philo T. Farnsworth, who first built it in the 1950's after inventing the television some 30 years earlier. If you run into problems you'll be able to count on a enthusiastic support group, as the contraption seems to have developed a cult following over the past few years. Okay, so I'm skeptical that this approach will ever really work, but at the very least it sounds like a really cool science project!"
Pass.
Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
Finally I can get a Mr. Fusion to power my Flux Capacitor.
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" Lisa in this house we obey the law of thermodynamics!"
Whether or not this ever works, TV will go down as Farnsworth's most detrimental contribution to humanity.
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because then he would have wound up with a
NUCLEAR POWERED TELEVISION SET!!
now that's a plasma screen worth looking at...
Not really surprising from the guy who invented the Smelloscope..
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
Surely, solar power will be very practical then.
I'd trust an inventor named Farnsworth just as much as I'd trust a physician named Zoidberg.
I once shot a man in Reno 'cause they cancelled Firefly.
Hehe... wonder if Hubert J Farnsworth is a relative of his :)
;)
The article would have been better if they started with 'Good news everyone...'
"Hey! Unless this is a nude love-in, get the hell off my property!!"
Now we don't have to develop a static powered car, but can rather make a Mr Fusion to power the Flux Capacitor so we can go to the future where all of life's problems are already solved!
I can see the [H]ard forums now...
"Check out my new case mod! My PC powers itself!"
while fusion starts with merely protons created from hydrogen atoms electrolyzed from pure water.
Highly explosive hydrogen. I'm sure they won't have a problem with that.
If at first you don't succeed, then sky diving definitely isn't for you.
If the stable one-atmosphere plasmoid didn't do it, and the DIY breeder reactor didn't succeed, there will no doubt be some ingenious /. readers who decide to create a high-energy neutron source out in their garage to remove themselves from the gene pool. CmdrTaco, Timothy, what is it with all the sterility how-to guides you're giving your readers?
Get off my virtual lawn, you damned virtual kids!
But don't tell anyone I own a book of matches, okay?
Scientists restrict study to entire physical universe; creationist
Did you ever see the Simpsons where Homer and Grandpa went back to the old family farm, and homers shadow was burned into the wall from their Radiation King tv set. I also remember in 6th grade all the monitors in the computer lab had stickers on them, "Now With Low Radiation!", or something like that.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Really? They seem in now ;-)
its not like /. readers breed anyway.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Yeh. Too bad that the energy required to make a gram of anti-matter costs $20 trillion USD, takes 300 years to produce, and could provide enough electricity to light NYC for about 10 minutes.
AM/M reactors are prized for their energy density, not energy economy. Not to mention, that unless someone comes up with some sort of anti-matter breeder reactor, we'll never be able to make enough fuel to do more than experiment.
Now, being God, whenever I want anti-matter, I just re-adjust supersymetry temporarily, but lame fuckwads like you have to get your own. Nyah nyah nyah nyah!
PS. Zero-point energy is actually the holy grail, duh. Can't wait til next weeks slashdot article "You too can exploit the Casimir Effect!".
"This perpetual motion machine Lisa built is broken. It just keeps going faster and faster."
KFG
Then you'd be in trouble.
I spent about an hour reading through the whole fusor.net site, including many of the forum posts, prior to posting anything, though clearly you did not or you would realize that the operators of that site made no such claim that you are arguing against. The results of the U Wisconsin group are ~1E8 neutrons/sec and the portable commercial device I linked to here are ~1E7. Please don't be a fucknut and imply that somebody with half a brain can't properly compare orders of magnitude. So again, cut the fucking ad hominem attacks ("Do you read your own links?"). That is an offensive comment to make as it implies that I have somehow made some whopping error in logic or observation, which I have certainly not done. The only error of logic and observation being made here is by you, who seems to want to attribute to me your own misreading of a fucking moronic Slashdor editor/submitter, which I had fuck-all to do with.
inventor, Philo T. Farnsworth
Any relation to Hubert Farnsworth, inventor of the Smell-o-Scope, the Fing-Longer, and the Death Clock?
"Defenestration" is to throw out of a window; what's a word for throwing 'Windows' out of something?
Why don't they just start manufacturing them as soon as they're ordered? They can then use a demo model to go to the future, pick them up, then sell to you immediately. Just-in-time manufacturing aquires a whole new meaning!
they come up with a thing to power my laptop. Propelling rockets, my ass. We need this for laptops, remote controls and cordless mice. I dont give a damn about fusion unless they can put it in a AAA cell.