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!"

Comments

The radioactive boy scout

[brejc8]

This story is an example of someone who actually tried to do something simmilar.
Its a fantasticly strange and scary story.

FINALLY!!!

[gpinzone]

A power source for my flux capacitor!

Re:This is a bad idea

[pe1rxq]

Nuclear reactors work on a principle called fision, not fusion.
Whit fusion of deuterium you get a whole lot less of the bad kinds of radiation.

Jeroen

Re:But,,,

[jenssoderberg]

So? they are equally "dirty" and most goverments wants to have a saying before you start to do research in this field...