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This Amateur Physicist Built a Fusion Reactor in His Shed
spawnflaggerOne of Fusor variants was invented by Philo Farnsworth, an ancestor to Professor Farnsworth of Futurama!
for more background, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor
I would have liked to hear how efficient this is.
This Amateur Physicist Built a Fusion Reactor in His Shed
WmGnfor more background, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor
I would have liked to hear how efficient this is.
19-year-old hopes to revolutionize nuclear power
bcglorf says...What Taylor built though was a fusor though, not a breeder reactor. A fusor is basically a vacuum chamber with a high voltage wire run into the center and a place to puff in a bunch of fuel gas. With a fusor you get a short term burst of radiation, but nothing before or after is contaminated. With a breeder reactor you start with a bunch of dirty material and make more even dirtier material.
he's copycatting the "Radioactive Boyscout" who built a reactor in his backyard in 1995
http://harpers.org/archive/1998/11/the-radioactive-boy-scout/
it leaked radiation and he was picked up and his back yard was dug up, garage and all, and put into barrells and taken to nuclear waste area. The EPA were all in "space suits" in his yard, and he had tricked the nuclear regulatory agency and several places into providing him with info by faking his age and making fake letterheads.
the wild thing is the boy scout actually made a breeder reactor, but it was leaking a lot of radiation the EPA was registering radioactive material all over the yard and into neighbor yards.
Big Laser Construction
CrakeI expect it's part of a fusor, one of the ways of creating fusion - you take a bit of hydrogen isotope and encase it in a pellet, and focus insanely powerful laser beams on it from all sides, and it undergoes fusion from all the heat and pressure, hopefully.
Should Google Go Nuclear?
cybrbeastThis was merged with this post, some more comments over there:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Better-Than-Regular-Fusion-the-Polywell-Fusor
Should Google Go Nuclear?
siftbotTags for this video have been changed from 'clean, cheap, nuclear power' to 'clean, cheap, nuclear power, fusion, Robert, Bussard, Polywell, fusor' - edited by cybrbeast
Better Than Regular Fusion; the Polywell Fusor!
charliem says...>> ^TwiggyJack:
This isn't going to be like the Large Hadron Collider is it? where everyone thinks it will end the world in a heartbeat?
Fusion has quite predictable outcomes, and apocalyptic events are not among them.
Better Than Regular Fusion; the Polywell Fusor!
cybrbeast>> ^fissionchips:
dupeof: http://www.videosift.com/video/Should-Google-Go-Nuclear
I've never used the dupeof command -- it transfers votes, but what about the comments?
I can't use it either with my star level, I think. Don't know about the comments.
But that really is a horribly tagged video, the tags don't even mention Bussard or Polywell.
Better Than Regular Fusion; the Polywell Fusor!
charliem says...>> ^Drachen_Jager:
The problem with this system is that it takes 1.2 units of energy to produce 1 unit of energy. In other words you have to put more energy into the system to power it than you actually get out the far end.
Of course Bussard was of a different opinion but it's worth noting that his is a minority opinion among physicists and it's likely that he was simply wrong.
Care to show some evidence to back that claim up ?