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See how people have imagined life on Mars through history. See More. United States Change. Its distribution is also tightly regulated due to its close ties to nuclear technology. Unless you have special connections, a business or university will need to request it on your behalf. Remember that because you are trying to attract positive deuterium ions, you want negative output, so you must ground the positive charge. Olson uses an X-ray transformer salvaged from an old mammogram machine.
A commercial power supply by Spellman or Glassman is another option, or the intrepid electrician can make one from scratch. A two-stage roughing pump will get you to a near vacuum. Then use a turbo or oil diffusion pump to reach a high vacuum.
Needle valves can fine-tune the amount going in; capillary tubing with an inner diameter as narrow as a pin will really slow it down. If you can afford to, forget those and instead use a mass flow controller, which allows you to delegate the job to your computer.
Register or Log In. You have to force the nucleons together against the coulomb force and get them close enough together to allow them to fuse. This will release a lot of energy, but it takes equipment like Tokamak to do it. Deuterium-Tritium reactions are indeed more likely to happen at a given energy, but Deuterium-Deuterium reactions will certainly still happen at 40keV.
If it took more energy to fuse two atoms together than the energy you get out of the neutron, nobody would be researching fusion energy because it would be futile and hopeless. I must have missed this one first time round. No news of anyone becoming a billionaire selling cheap energy so i guess it did'nt really work. Mmmm Physics can be a real bummer sometimes. Mmmm manners can be a real bummer sometimes. If you do not understand the project, do not comment.
It's pretty simple. There are hundreds of things I do not understand on this website or am not qualified to make, yet I do not feel the need to attack or belittle the author. A "Fusion Reactor" isn't simply free energy nor is it simply "I'm going to be a billionaire". A "Fusion Reactor" isn't all that hard and this project actually does it.
Nowhere does the author state he is getting more out than he is putting in or it is commercially or even residentially viable for electricity output in any way. Which I assume is where you are getting confused about. Reply 6 years ago. There is a lot of vocabulary confusion. A fusion reactor is a contraption that causes two or more nuclei to fuse into one heavier nuclei. That is all. That, presumably, has been accomplished here, and elsewhere, for decades.
The "cheap energy" that you refer to is the hypothetical electicity production of a fuaion reactor. No, nobody has been doing that, commercially, because we have not been able to extract more energy than we put in. This isn't a problem of physics. Physics doesn't even have anything saying that fusion power "will" be able to do that. The financial success of individual life-forms is not a scientific measure of whether or not a physical phenomenon works.
Remember to make the number agree with the noun form, so that you have one nucleus, rather than "one heavier nuclei. We shouldn't even comment on the woeful level of scientific ignorance displayed by some of the contributors, but I do, regardless of the efforts of my family and peers to teach me good manners.
Thank you for the correction! Reply 4 years ago. No, the reactor puts out something like a millionth of a watt, and there's no practical system to capture that energy so you get nothing. Even if you could capture it, this power is so low that for example, it'd take well over an entire human lifetime to charge a cellphone once. Question 3 years ago.
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