well, you need to overcome the force that repels atoms and usually keeps them from merging with each other. basically, the heavier the elements you want to fuse together, the more force you will need to get them to merge. our giant nuclear fusion reactor, the sun, can only merge elements up to iron. heavier elements are born in supernovae's r-process. if you're really interested, read on wikipedia about: - the sun - nuclear fusion - supernovae - nucleosynthesis these keywords are a good start!
you can get fusor equipment at e.g. wiederlabs-dot-com, and gas companies such as LINDE will sell deuterium. a tiny bottle (that will last for years with fusors) is about $200. a vacuum pump, you'll find by googling, sometimes ebay has some good ones.
To those who are whining that this isn't home-made, let me tell you something. I know this person via internet, we are part of a loose collective of fusor builders, and I have also made one of these (I believe I'm the leader in Q and output currently) myself. Search youtube for a Vice video with the terms fusion and gunsmith and you'll get mine. Does that mean I smelted the iron and fabbed all the stainless steel, made my own turbopump and so on? Heck no. This kind of stuff is often available in high-tech scrapyards, university auctions and so on. Do you make your own axe heads? Of course not, someone else does that part for you. The specialized parts, yes, we make those ourselves, using the normal machine tools. Doh. Did the original source of some of the high tech parts assemble these parts into a fusor? No, they originally had some other purpose when bought new by someone else in most cases. Do you do the masking and processing of the silicon in your computer? Get real, one uses what one can get to get to a result...she is sharing hers, I share mine, let's see yours. Or, STFU. You can check dcfusor on youtube for my own efforts. I didn't make the lathe, either...would you have? Really?
I would say it does not resemble what one thinks of as home-made or the spirit of being home-made: what a person might have lying around in a home garage. Maybe, better to call it amateur, assuming its not for profit.
@Numericana sorry if that was a bit confusing. 10^-7 torr is the pressure after initially removing the gas / air in the fusor. AFTER admission of *deuterium*, it is indeed in the *militorr* range. :)
what the heck does this have to do with being in my family? my mother didnt know about this stuff, either, for example. :P so, go forth, and learn the teachings of the glorious atom. ^_^ it'll be fun once you get over the basics, as it's pure logic and easy to build up upon. it'll be extremely awesome and with always new things to explore, like zooming into a beautiful fractal infinitely, the big and the small will be equal (like the universe and an atom), and all will be logic and bliss.
yes, you could do that. however, the neutron flux is way too low in one of these fusors; 10^7 neutrons/second is not a lot. it can activate stuff for a while, but it'll cause too few nuclear reactions to have true samples, e.g. of Co-60. Co-60 is usually produces with fission reactor neutrons at much greater flux intensities.
@lollazers depleted uranium is another word for uranium 238, and that is not fissile material. however, bombarding it with fast neutrons would result in U-238 -> neutron capture -> U-239 -> beta-decay -> Np-239 -> beta-decay -> Pu-239. it produces plutonium, and as has been done in "fast breeder reactors". bombaring fissile U-235 with thermal neutrons would result in fission and additional neutrons, however.
You should stress the fact that a fusor uses an electric field to do work on atoms, to heat them to fusion conditions. That is the key physical mechanism. Otherwise this is a great bit of work. I really like your explanation.
So, to break it down... 1. Create a strong vacuum 2. Direct a strong electrical current through said vacuum 3. Inject deuterium gas into the path of the electrical current. This will ionize the deuterium with a positive charge 4. The resulting high temperatures will cause the deuterium nuclei to combine into Helium-4 nuclei 5. The Helium-4 ion ejects a neutron or proton, creating a Helium-3 ion or a Tritum ion and giving off massive amounts of energy, or it just ejects a gamma ray.
@meagain2222 as i stated in the video, this is not my fusor. and, well... it's an experiment rather than a power plant, but it does produce sufficient heat to melt its own electrodes if run for too long or at too high voltages (~100kV = runtime of much less than a minute, or the reactor's inner electrode melts).
@SanfranciscoUB 1. evidence to disbelieve in the danger 2. curiosity 3. fun! life should be fun! 4. consider it a life-long experiment on hormesis. we'll find out if i get cancer sooner or later, i suppose. but maybe, i'll just die of a car accident before i can even get cancer. who knows? time will tell.
so the silver acts like a 'control rod' of sorts? how do you know when it's absorbed it's limit? does it get coated in cadmium and you can scrape it off, or does it aersol into the air? I suppose this is based on surface area, or does mass play a part? How do you know the ratio of converted helium vs hydrogen again, which could seed more of the reaction. I always wondered how a 'net positive' reactor actually works in regards to what is happening under the hood. I know this is just an experiment, but in a perfect world, how do you know when to input more fuel?
I want to build a fusor now =o So what would happen if you activated a fissile material like DU? Would it contribute neutrons back to the reaction? And some guy mentioned 5 Sv at the chamber wall? That's hot. No, really.
@tarrasque420 yes, H2+H2-> He4, and then either (gamma) -> He4, or (proton) H3, or - most common - (neutron) He3. lead into gold could be difficult. but you could transform platinum into gold. however, that would be stupid, same as transmuting iridium into platinum. personally, i prefer making mercury out of gold, as i prefer mercury over gold. :P
One quick question. Since this fusor can force nuclear transmutation, lets say we replace the silver in this experiment with Th 232. Will it transmute into U233 and release beta particles and lead to a Thorium fuel cycle or is the neutron flow too slow for it?
Pfffft, come to the east coast to see a REAL fusion reactor at 10^14 N and 5 Sv doses at the chamber wall. :)) Seriously though, this guy has a really nice setup. It's not surprising he holds the record for n production on an IEC reactor.
@@profflux wow reply on >decade old comment! 🤣 I was referring to the laser driven inertial confinement fusion device that I work at, the Laboratory for Laser Energetics in Rochester NY.
I am very impressed with your instrumentation and control. You are taking this very seriously. The question really is can the fusor produce practical amounts of heat energy?What about cold fusion?
I have seen them while they were being featured on a forum, so I couldn't see you were the author of these video's. Even how terrible it was for the residents of Pripyat, it's fascinating what's all to see there. I wish I could explore Pripyat with my brother one day.
Can you give a brief rundown on some of the equipment in the tower on the left of the reactor? I couldn't figure out what some of the electronics were.
Yes it does but at the same time, the formation it uses suggests it is not welding. It looks to me like is going out (or coming in) of the lid while but what and why does it use such pattern?
im not a physicist. My question is, why does deuterium plasma fusion together so easy under this condition? You need only some high voltage to break the atom binding force?
All depends on your tools, materials, and your know-how. I design projects with AutoCAD and they come out great when I finally make them up. You can always see how things fit and make them look right in CAD.
This is the smartest people on youtube...damn got your own lab and all that...So what you up to today? Oh nothing, I'll just be messing with the ole nuclear reactor in the back room....
Quick irrelevant question, have you / the recorder of this video been in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone? I can't quite put my finger on it, I recognize the dosimeter in the video however.
I'm building a Polywell that uses a MaGrid. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PolywellI plan on plating the inside with lithium so that when neutron strike it I can get tritium, witch will make the fusion go over smoother and take lower energy.
100kv @ 70 ma glaube ich aber es gibt zu viel x-rays im zimmer. Bremsstrahlung is wirklich stark vom plasma chamber so mann muss benutze nicht zu viel Hochspannung. Normal ist 60 KV @ 40 ma. Jon R. ist oft @ www.fusor.net
I built a Lil RBMK-1000 model from nuclear-grade graphite, a.n neutron source, and uranium glass. saw a slight rise in alpha radiation, prolly due to Pu239 production. thing is more or less a copy of carl willis' neutron oven, but with graphite got graphite from a university U92 glass from amazon Radium from a clock and Beryllium chunks from eBay
@tarrasque420 A lot of isotopes you can make with neutron bombardment are worth a lot more than gold; ie tritium is worth $30k USD per gram. Which is why these are all D-D fusion and not D-T... though I don't think a fusor has the neutron flux to produce anything in quantity and you'd probably need to go through a lengthy approval and licensing process with the NRC anyway (or you'll get visited by the party van)
Most of the power in a fuse is wasted in current heating electrodes. It could be made many times more efficient by using focussing electrodes to keep your ionized deuterium from hitting your cathode. Beam current vacuum tubes solved this problem 80 years ago.
Hi, Illy. Nice video on a great topic ! However, your pressure seems off by a factor of 1000 or so. In the vacuum trade, a "micron" is a micrometer of mercury or (very slighyly more than) a millitorr (mTorr) NOT a microtorr. One pascal (Pa) is about 7.5 microns. You probably mean 1 or 0,1 micron, which is already an impressive vacuum. I'd have a tough time believing your figure of 0.001 or 0.0001 micron ;-)
is that a school lab? or your home? if it's your home how did you find and buy those equipment? and where did you get the deuterium? anyone selling it?
+Ghost Guy If paid enough could you travel and build one for a client? Also can you make a power source from this specific reactor (like lets say a car or handheld lethal laser) , and if not what modifications would be required to do so. Thanks for responding
+MaverickKnation® Yea of course. It'd be quite some money tho, these things require a lot of money and maintanance for safe operation and proper energy generation but it would make some megawatts. To make it safe, for instance, there would be a lot of lead shielding needed, in order to keep the radiation inside.
Not dumb at all, that's a great idea. There is a Nobel Prize waiting for you if you can figure out how to do it. And riches, if you patent your process, because every big power company will want to use it. So get busy!
sence you have the tools try to collect the elecrtrons take a steal sendler and rap it wit a raydon coil and fill with same matreal add low vottleg to the coil my fear is it will work as well as it has fule
I wich I also would be able to get this stuff from university's and such.And btw, Im not very careful sometimes perhaps but I sure as hell would not put my hand in the creaming high energy x-ray radiation path! Why would anyone even remotely do something stupid like that?!
Why does everyone treat protons as hard static charged balls and try to bash them together, when we know that they are *dynamic* , moving. Perhaps, if they can be made to *engage* at just the right velocity (v) , the right spin characteristics(s) and at the right phase (Φ) in their spin, they may just _pull_ together. With a dynamic proton, the Coulomb barrier looks less like a wall, and more like a charged coiled ball. A spinning ball with a random chance of (say) 1/100,000 chance meeting another proton, with just the right combination of v,s & Φ . Perhaps if we work at precisely controlling v,s & Φ the odds will start to approach 1:1. and power, containment and energetic neutron generation would lessen? Food for thought.
They look a lot like the weld produced by a spot welder, usually used for two thin metals side by side sandwiched between two contact points. (instructablesdotcom/image/FPCM3RHFJADQC4B/Building-the-jaws.jpg). Looking more closely at the picture, this looks like a metal lid of some sort around a spherical body, so I would say it is composed of two disks spot-welded together. When you machine the metal, it usually looks like this. I built and tested a spot welder with a friend a couple years ago.
Yet again, you have the most wonderful videos on the entire web concerning radiation! Wonderful job!!!
Please continue!
well, you need to overcome the force that repels atoms and usually keeps them from merging with each other. basically, the heavier the elements you want to fuse together, the more force you will need to get them to merge. our giant nuclear fusion reactor, the sun, can only merge elements up to iron. heavier elements are born in supernovae's r-process. if you're really interested, read on wikipedia about:
- the sun
- nuclear fusion
- supernovae
- nucleosynthesis
these keywords are a good start!
"Hardly any radiation" is so relative with physicists :)
you can get fusor equipment at e.g. wiederlabs-dot-com, and gas companies such as LINDE will sell deuterium. a tiny bottle (that will last for years with fusors) is about $200. a vacuum pump, you'll find by googling, sometimes ebay has some good ones.
Ok will check it out
To those who are whining that this isn't home-made, let me tell you something. I know this person via internet, we are part of a loose collective of fusor builders, and I have also made one of these (I believe I'm the leader in Q and output currently) myself. Search youtube for a Vice video with the terms fusion and gunsmith and you'll get mine. Does that mean I smelted the iron and fabbed all the stainless steel, made my own turbopump and so on? Heck no. This kind of stuff is often available in high-tech scrapyards, university auctions and so on. Do you make your own axe heads? Of course not, someone else does that part for you. The specialized parts, yes, we make those ourselves, using the normal machine tools. Doh.
Did the original source of some of the high tech parts assemble these parts into a fusor? No, they originally had some other purpose when bought new by someone else in most cases. Do you do the masking and processing of the silicon in your computer? Get real, one uses what one can get to get to a result...she is sharing hers, I share mine, let's see yours.
Or, STFU. You can check dcfusor on youtube for my own efforts. I didn't make the lathe, either...would you have? Really?
+Doug Coulter this video made me think of you, and here you are!
Doug Coulter youre dutch arent you??
Yeah. If you've got a bit of $$$ you can indeed home-make this. (Esp. if you're well off enough to afford a decent workshop.)
Doug Coulter I make my own axe heads...
I would say it does not resemble what one thinks of as home-made or the spirit of being home-made: what a person might have lying around in a home garage. Maybe, better to call it amateur, assuming its not for profit.
@Numericana
sorry if that was a bit confusing. 10^-7 torr is the pressure after initially removing the gas / air in the fusor.
AFTER admission of *deuterium*, it is indeed in the *militorr* range. :)
what the heck does this have to do with being in my family?
my mother didnt know about this stuff, either, for example. :P
so, go forth, and learn the teachings of the glorious atom. ^_^
it'll be fun once you get over the basics, as it's pure logic and easy to build up upon. it'll be extremely awesome and with always new things to explore, like zooming into a beautiful fractal infinitely, the big and the small will be equal (like the universe and an atom), and all will be logic and bliss.
Hi where can we learn about its basic. I mean nuclear fusion basic?
yes, you could do that. however, the neutron flux is way too low in one of these fusors; 10^7 neutrons/second is not a lot. it can activate stuff for a while, but it'll cause too few nuclear reactions to have true samples, e.g. of Co-60. Co-60 is usually produces with fission reactor neutrons at much greater flux intensities.
@lollazers
depleted uranium is another word for uranium 238, and that is not fissile material. however, bombarding it with fast neutrons would result in U-238 -> neutron capture -> U-239 -> beta-decay -> Np-239 -> beta-decay -> Pu-239. it produces plutonium, and as has been done in "fast breeder reactors".
bombaring fissile U-235 with thermal neutrons would result in fission and additional neutrons, however.
You should stress the fact that a fusor uses an electric field to do work on atoms, to heat them to fusion conditions. That is the key physical mechanism. Otherwise this is a great bit of work. I really like your explanation.
So, to break it down...
1. Create a strong vacuum
2. Direct a strong electrical current through said vacuum
3. Inject deuterium gas into the path of the electrical current. This will ionize the deuterium with a positive charge
4. The resulting high temperatures will cause the deuterium nuclei to combine into Helium-4 nuclei
5. The Helium-4 ion ejects a neutron or proton, creating a Helium-3 ion or a Tritum ion and giving off massive amounts of energy, or it just ejects a gamma ray.
@meagain2222
as i stated in the video, this is not my fusor. and, well... it's an experiment rather than a power plant, but it does produce sufficient heat to melt its own electrodes if run for too long or at too high voltages (~100kV = runtime of much less than a minute, or the reactor's inner electrode melts).
@SanfranciscoUB
1. evidence to disbelieve in the danger
2. curiosity
3. fun! life should be fun!
4. consider it a life-long experiment on hormesis. we'll find out if i get cancer sooner or later, i suppose. but maybe, i'll just die of a car accident before i can even get cancer. who knows? time will tell.
since Wiederlabs does not sell to private persons anymore do you have an idea were to get these UHV chambers?
Fantastic, only discovering all of your stuff now!!
so the silver acts like a 'control rod' of sorts? how do you know when it's absorbed it's limit? does it get coated in cadmium and you can scrape it off, or does it aersol into the air? I suppose this is based on surface area, or does mass play a part? How do you know the ratio of converted helium vs hydrogen again, which could seed more of the reaction. I always wondered how a 'net positive' reactor actually works in regards to what is happening under the hood. I know this is just an experiment, but in a perfect world, how do you know when to input more fuel?
I want to build a fusor now =o
So what would happen if you activated a fissile material like DU? Would it contribute neutrons back to the reaction?
And some guy mentioned 5 Sv at the chamber wall? That's hot. No, really.
What did you use for achieving that vacuum? My fusor along with the vacuum pumps can only get a 10^4 torr vacuum
@Tatzelbrumm
i didnt like the idea of visiting disneyland, but i've been to "great america". :)
@tarrasque420
yes, H2+H2-> He4, and then either (gamma) -> He4, or (proton) H3, or - most common - (neutron) He3.
lead into gold could be difficult. but you could transform platinum into gold. however, that would be stupid, same as transmuting iridium into platinum. personally, i prefer making mercury out of gold, as i prefer mercury over gold. :P
@ytmachx
that'll be a compliment to the constructor, who happens to be a mechanic. :)
One quick question.
Since this fusor can force nuclear transmutation, lets say we replace the silver in this experiment with Th 232. Will it transmute into U233 and release beta particles and lead to a Thorium fuel cycle or is the neutron flow too slow for it?
Pfffft, come to the east coast to see a REAL fusion reactor at 10^14 N and 5 Sv doses at the chamber wall. :))
Seriously though, this guy has a really nice setup. It's not surprising he holds the record for n production on an IEC reactor.
Which reactor is this? Link please, if possible.
@@profflux wow reply on >decade old comment! 🤣
I was referring to the laser driven inertial confinement fusion device that I work at, the Laboratory for Laser Energetics in Rochester NY.
I am very impressed with your instrumentation and control.
You are taking this very seriously.
The question really is can the fusor produce practical amounts of heat
energy?What about cold fusion?
Cold fusion doesn't exist.
I have seen them while they were being featured on a forum, so I couldn't see you were the author of these video's. Even how terrible
it was for the residents of Pripyat, it's fascinating what's all to
see there. I wish I could explore Pripyat with my brother one day.
Can you give a brief rundown on some of the equipment in the tower on the left of the reactor? I couldn't figure out what some of the electronics were.
Really clear explanation at the start, loved that.... gets a bit tricky near the end. Great video
Check the H bomb , it actually used fusion too. It was a process of Fission-Fusion (fission triggers fusion)
Yes it does but at the same time, the formation it uses suggests it is not welding. It looks to me like is going out (or coming in) of the lid while but what and why does it use such pattern?
That looks like one expensive fusor... I wish I had one!
Hi, Very clever lady. Extremely interesting to me. Well Done.
Can you tell me what are those spots we see on the lid at 8:29 ? It looks like holes, are those formed from particles going through?
im not a physicist. My question is, why does deuterium plasma fusion together so easy under this condition? You need only some high voltage to break the atom binding force?
All depends on your tools, materials, and your know-how. I design projects with AutoCAD and they come out great when I finally make them up. You can always see how things fit and make them look right in CAD.
This thing would be great for producing low-cost radioisotopes like Co-60 and U-233 from Th-232 if a moderator could be found.
could as an additional proof of fusion the gas be sampled and and spectroscopically analysed? --- great video and explanation
This is the smartest people on youtube...damn got your own lab and all that...So what you up to today? Oh nothing, I'll just be messing with the ole nuclear reactor in the back room....
I have just 2 questions
how much electrical power can you generate with this one?
how much did you spend in total?
Hi. How to generate energy for a gas with this equipment? Is it possible to generate energy with it?
I was wondering what was your rate of neutron production.
Silver radioisotope is created ?
what do you do to to actually extract the atom from the silver , I just can't figure it out
Quick irrelevant question, have you / the recorder of this video been in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone? I can't quite put my finger on it, I recognize the dosimeter in the video however.
Yeah look at her channel that's literally 80% of the content
Does that setup have an ion gun?
No look the guy up on fusor.net to see the setup more closely
А какое набряжение используете? Ведь для слияния дейтерия нужно напряжение не менее 200 000 вольт
I'm building a Polywell that uses a MaGrid.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PolywellI plan on plating the inside with lithium so that when neutron strike it I can get tritium, witch will make the fusion go over smoother and take lower energy.
How did the build go?
Very informative.
You always have such interesting videos.
Just curious. After 8 years, any melanoma in your hand?
Weißt du, was er als Spannungsquelle verwendet hat? Und welche Spannung zum Einsatz kommt?
100kv @ 70 ma glaube ich aber es gibt zu viel x-rays im zimmer. Bremsstrahlung is wirklich stark vom plasma chamber so mann muss benutze nicht zu viel Hochspannung. Normal ist 60 KV @ 40 ma. Jon R. ist oft @ www.fusor.net
i'm not sure, but looks very much like welding points to me.
but is the heat from the fusion or the electric current? ;-)
Cool nice. Am I understanding this correctly? H2 + H2 -> He4 now if I only knew how to transmute lead into gold.
I built a Lil RBMK-1000 model from nuclear-grade graphite, a.n neutron source, and uranium glass. saw a slight rise in alpha radiation, prolly due to Pu239 production. thing is more or less a copy of carl willis' neutron oven, but with graphite
got graphite from a university
U92 glass from amazon
Radium from a clock
and Beryllium chunks from eBay
This video has resulted in nothing but con-fusion.
Nuclear fusion does not produce waste products. Also, a fusion reactor functions differently from a hydrogen bomb.
You know what you should check out? A radioactive Tritium watch :D
@tarrasque420 A lot of isotopes you can make with neutron bombardment are worth a lot more than gold; ie tritium is worth $30k USD per gram. Which is why these are all D-D fusion and not D-T... though I don't think a fusor has the neutron flux to produce anything in quantity and you'd probably need to go through a lengthy approval and licensing process with the NRC anyway (or you'll get visited by the party van)
sooooooo jealous!! you get access to the coolest toys :D
So lets get down to the real deal.
How much power is put in to the fusor, and how much is extractable?
Most of the power in a fuse is wasted in current heating electrodes.
It could be made many times more efficient by using focussing electrodes to keep your ionized deuterium from hitting your cathode.
Beam current vacuum tubes solved this problem 80 years ago.
@bionerd23 Er crap, I got fissile and fissionable mixed up. But I guess that wouldn't work if you need both fast and thermal neutrons.
Hi, Illy. Nice video on a great topic !
However, your pressure seems off by a factor of 1000 or so.
In the vacuum trade, a "micron" is a micrometer of mercury or (very slighyly more than) a millitorr (mTorr) NOT a microtorr. One pascal (Pa) is about 7.5 microns. You probably mean 1 or 0,1 micron, which is already an impressive vacuum. I'd have a tough time believing your figure of 0.001 or 0.0001 micron ;-)
Thanks bionerd23 girl, very informative and a great explanation
how much do you guess all this equipment this costed??
is that a school lab? or your home? if it's your home how did you find and buy those equipment? and where did you get the deuterium? anyone selling it?
Where do you get them?
where can i get a geiger counter in Canada?
Love all your stuff makesme feeel a bit more in touch with reality
15:19 "like 120 milirem or something." HOLY JESUS! (That's a crapload of radiation.)
Excellent and informative video :).
I Need it 😭. Please. Help. I am addicted to X Rays and Gamma especially Nuclear Fusion.
Thank you. That was excellent! Jason
Hello! if I construct this Fusor, whether I can activate cobalt except silver?
Neutron activation works on anything.
@@josephastier7421 Anything with the right neutron cross section.
That's basically what happened to Pierre Curie. People are just afraid of living life. :-)
Wouldn't it EMIT gamma rays?
Why would you want to turn silver to cadmium? Would you not rather want to turn mercury to gold?
+Soteriology101 The gold would be instable and would have a half-life of 30 seconds. Not worth the trouble.
+Ghost Guy If paid enough could you travel and build one for a client? Also can you make a power source from this specific reactor (like lets say a car or handheld lethal laser) , and if not what modifications would be required to do so. Thanks for responding
+MaverickKnation® Yea of course. It'd be quite some money tho, these things require a lot of money and maintanance for safe operation and proper energy generation but it would make some megawatts. To make it safe, for instance, there would be a lot of lead shielding needed, in order to keep the radiation inside.
Thanks I'll keep you in contact.
+MaverickKnation® You're welcome
Как делается нейтронный детектор тот что Вы используете ?
Maybe it is a dumb question,but..
Is it possible to make a self sustaining reaction in that fusor,and harvest the energy from it?
no. if it could be done right now there would be no need for any other energy source.
ze62948 impossible arm as the energy input is greater than the output, making it reliable on the exterior energy source
Not dumb at all, that's a great idea. There is a Nobel Prize waiting for you if you can figure out how to do it. And riches, if you patent your process, because every big power company will want to use it. So get busy!
bionerd23 where do u buy deuterium?
Heavy water
sence you have the tools try to collect the elecrtrons take a steal sendler and rap it wit a raydon coil and fill with same matreal add low vottleg to the coil my fear is it will work as well as it has fule
the goal here was not a fusion reacter, rather the fusion reactor was a tool in the transmutation to produce cadmium atoms.
I wich I also would be able to get this stuff from university's and such.And btw, Im not very careful sometimes perhaps but I sure as hell would not put my hand in the creaming high energy x-ray radiation path! Why would anyone even remotely do something stupid like that?!
Homemade? That is hard to believe.
Great video!
Buy more lead?
Does this produce energy and if so how much?
No it doesn't
I need that and a 50 megawatt generator for my time warp experiment.
I recall that the minimum threshold is 1.1 Gigawatts 😀
Will this not give you cancer in the long run?
Why does everyone treat protons as hard static charged balls and try to bash them together, when we know that they are *dynamic* , moving.
Perhaps, if they can be made to *engage* at just the right velocity (v) , the right spin characteristics(s) and at the right phase (Φ) in their spin, they may just _pull_ together.
With a dynamic proton, the Coulomb barrier looks less like a wall, and more like a charged coiled ball.
A spinning ball with a random chance of (say) 1/100,000 chance meeting another proton, with just the right combination of v,s & Φ .
Perhaps if we work at precisely controlling v,s & Φ the odds will start to approach 1:1. and power, containment and energetic neutron generation would lessen?
Food for thought.
Awesome. I'm looking to make one of my own.
Hi I want to build one please. Help
You can't use these to generate electricity, these things way more power than what is put out.
Show how it all works.
Pls no, Me no wan 2 deel wth teerorists 2day.
Look him up on fusor.net
They look a lot like the weld produced by a spot welder, usually used for two thin metals side by side sandwiched between two contact points. (instructablesdotcom/image/FPCM3RHFJADQC4B/Building-the-jaws.jpg). Looking more closely at the picture, this looks like a metal lid of some sort around a spherical body, so I would say it is composed of two disks spot-welded together. When you machine the metal, it usually looks like this. I built and tested a spot welder with a friend a couple years ago.
i was wrong, not illegal, but still is there any chance of a critical failure in the reactor? how much does it cost to build this? approximately
very cool!
Woh nice, the guy actually used a porcelain insulator.
new video, show us how you can make a fusion reactor at home :D
I wish I had a cool dad too.
uh yes. i have some 30 videos or so up about my chernobyl tours. just check out my channel if you're interested. :)