Table Top Fusion Device (That doesn't break the law)

NY Times ^ | April 28, 2005 | KENNETH CHANG

[ckilmer]

[Luddite Patent Counsel]

Didn't Uncle Rico use some of his sweet moolah to buy one of these things off of the internet? He's still walking funny...

[Nowhere Man]

Bookmark BUMP

[Terabitten]

Next thing, our cars will be fueled by Mr. Fusion.

[BipolarBob]

The central component of the device is a crystal of lithium tantalate,

They are sooo close! I could tell them to use the di-lithium crystals, but would they listen? Noooooooooo

[atomic_dog]

[ko_kyi]

I always wanted to irradiate my kitchen with neutrons and alpha particles. Microwaves are SO 1975!

I thought that neutron activation was usually a BAD thing in a home. Nevertheless, I had more than one amateur science project that could have cost me fingers as a kid, so I kinda want one.

[martin_fierro]

Table Top Fusion Device (That doesn't break the law)

[Lekker 1]

I thought they used it to nuke a Kay-suh-dilla and some tots.

[Luddite Patent Counsel]

Maybe then he'll stop ruining our lives and eating all our steaks!

[ckilmer]

umm...

miles usually doesn't talk about neutrons...

no...miles usually doesn't talk about neutrons.

fusion yes. but he means something different.

but in practice its mostly a young man's game if he's got britches

or a young ..... game if she breathes.

that's why you know mile's god would be female.

someone you don't trust for the Word.

miles music is another matter--long as you don't mind being a little top heavy.

[KevinDavis]

[Holicheese]

His video was sweet. And you have like the slowest reflexes, ever.

[AntiGuv]

FYI: another mini-fusion article!

[Blood of Tyrants]

Would't that be nice? Electric motors are extremely simple and reliable and with a Mr. Fusion you could build an electric plane that could fly around the world 50 times without refuelling!

[Servant of the 9]

Controlled Fusion isn't the problem or the goal.
We need controlled fusion that is a net producer of energy rather than a consumer of it.

So9

[PatrickHenry]

FYI: another mini-fusion article!

Same news as yesterday's thread, also from UCLA.

[johnb838]

Great. I expect a nuclear fusion power plant no bigger than a PC, with enough power to light the city of Topeka, for my own personal use, on my desktop, by the end of next year. I ordered this on another thread, and see? The major work is already done. Keep up the good work. Out.

[johnb838]

I need a car that gets 20,000 miles to the gallon. Same time table, end of next year. See? I don't believe in pushing people too hard. I could have said end of THIS year.

[ckilmer]

PatrickHenry

yeah I saw that article you posted.

All told I believe this makes for four approaches to fusion short of the BIG THING fusion reactor the Japanese and French are currently jawing over producing in their respective countries.

There's this table top fushion, there's Bubble Fusion, Cold Fusion (which has got some DOE support of late) and fusion set in an electromagnetic field some people at Columbia are trying to do.