Something happened today that has not happened for a long, long time since I know the Internet. I was seriously bedazzled. Totally speechless. I read through complex scientific texts for hours, understanding less than half, and still wondered if all this is just a big fat joke.
Fact is, I found a blog of a guy who claims to have done nuclear fusion at his home … a star in a jar, including a 200 million degree plasma. And now he attempts to build a fusion reactor, at home. And there are several other hobbyists, approx. 24 worlwide [source], who also achieved nuclear fusion at home. I have read about home-made electron microscopes etc., and that would not be stunning to me any more … but nuclear fusion? This is so awfully crazy … hope he succeeds with the reactor 🙂
See for yourself:
- the blog: Prometheus Fusion Perfection
- the Sydney Polywell Experiment he currently aims to copy
- the report about his first successful nuclear fusion
- the apparatus he used for the fusion
- Wired Magazine on Thiago Olson, the fusor hobbyist that inspired Famulus
- the Kickstarter project page he used to fund for his latest Polywell-related research
- Wikipedia on the Polywell plasma confinement concept
- Wikipedia on Robert Bussard and his Polywell invention
- Wikipedia on the Fusor, the device by which hobbyists create nuclear fusion at home
- Wikipedia on the USD 10bn ITER research reactor, the device by which scientists create nuclear fusion in the future 😉
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