Thread: The Coolest News of the Day :)

Deuterium DIY: Man Builds Homemade Nuclear Fusion Reactor in Brooklyn | Popular Science


This is freaking awesome anyways but it made it especially awesome for me because I had a dream about inventing this!

In the dream, I was looking under the hood of a futuristic car that looked much like a prius. Instead of a battery pack, there was an engine that looked just like the image of this fusion reactor. I have been going over it in my head for a few years now trying to figure out how to build it; turns out this guy was way ahead of me!

As the news piece says, this is nothing particularly special. I would be much more interested in news from ITER.

......go suck on a tailpipe...

Pretty cool, I didn't realise this was a hobby. Dunno what kind of reactor 'fuses neutrons', though.

Originally Posted by Xei

Pretty cool, I didn't realise this was a hobby. Dunno what kind of reactor 'fuses neutrons', though.

A neutron star could be said to fuse neutrons, but that's about the only think I can think of.

It's pretty cool how people have been doing this DIY style. My friend made one but the downside is they are extremely inefficient returning like 1/40 of the energy put in.

I can't imagine what kind of particle fusing a set of neutrons would produce. Then again, I'm not an energy physicist.

Neutron blob.

I believe free neutrons decay into protons after something like 15 minutes though, so I guess these things just turn into normal matter.