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Fusion - so simple a 12 year old can do it.


20 posted on 02/19/2019 3:08:59 PM PST by taxcontrol
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To: taxcontrol
Fusion - so simple a 12 year old can do it.

Actually, yeah. What's difficult is getting net power out of it in a sustainable reaction. Without the 'sustainable' part you have a bomb. Without the net power out part you have . . . what he has. A tiny amount of material is fused by zapping it with enough energy (voltage or laser) to get an even tinier amount of fusion for a large (relative to the size of the reaction) net loss in power.

Good for him, though. Even if he's just repeating what others have done, he's at least doing something better than playing video games.
44 posted on 02/19/2019 3:37:35 PM PST by Phlyer
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