[Ashrak]

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/21/0422206&from=rss

[Mefustae]

Too expensive. Have you checked the price-tag for ITER, lately? Slaves & exercycle generators ftw.

[Wobble73]

Hmmmmm, I'm assuming that you spelt "amounts" wrong on purpose here eh! :

[Ashrak]

fraid not

[Nix]

Soon this teenager will be offered a job (kidnapped) by the US Govt to keep his mouth shut about something like this.

[achtung]

Soon this teenager will be offered a job (kidnapped) by the major oil companies/fossil fuel producers to keep his mouth shut about something like this.

[Zuljin]

Doubtfully. Now if he had managed to get a fusion reaction that gave out more energy than it consumed, now that would make it more likely
That and the experiment he did has been known for decades. Still, big kudos to him for pulling off something like this in the basement of his home

[Ashrak]

Doubtfully. Now if he had managed to get a fusion reaction that gave out more energy than it consumed, now that[/] would make it more likely

not gonna happen, not possible


but if you look at the fusion reactor of our solar system (Sun) then well, loads of energy == easy

[Flipside]

excellent....

[vyper]

That's no sun...

[Col. Fishguts]

not gonna happen, not possible

Care to elaborate ?

[Dark RevenantX]

Its possible.  Look at the sun (with a visor on, hopefully), and you will see the possibilities.  And reality.

[Sandwich]

"Originally, he wanted to build a hyperbaric chamber," she said, adding that she promptly said no. But, when he came asking about the nuclear fusion machine, she relented.

Kid: "Ma, I wanna build a hyperbaric chamber."

Mom: "What's that, dear?"

Kid: "Gosh, Ma, do I have to explain everything to you? If you don't know what something is, you Google or Wikipedia it!"

Mom: {mumbling} "Isn't he pretentious..." :-/

Kid: "What's that word mean, patenshis?"

Mom: "...Google it."

Kid: "Heehee..."

{parental research break}

Mom: "Now wait just a minute! You want to to build a box with pure oxygen at levels of pressure many times higher than our atmosphere, inside the house? We just finished painting!"

Kid: "But Mommmm-"

Mom: "No, I absolutely forbid it! Don't ask again."

Kid: "Gosh, well how about a nuclear fusion device then?"

Mom: "Ok."

[wtf_cl0vvn]

kind of reminds me of chris hahn...the guy who built a fission reactor in his moms toolshed?
didnt suceed, but produced enough radiation to get the shed declared a superfund site...


anyhow, not possible on the scales done here on earth....youd need a lot of gas in order to take advantage of gravity, which is what compresses the gas in the sun to the point where it undergoes a fusion reaction...otherwise you have to put A LOT of energy into the d--n thing.

technically, you could replace the electrons in the deuterium with muons or tauons in order to decrease the distance between the nuclei of the deuterium atoms, but those are extremely unstable...

however, SHOULD someone find a [energy efficient] way to keep muons from decaying to electrons in 1/5700th of a second, then efficient fusion would be within our grasp....
*scurries off with pencil and paper to start puzzling over it*

**gives up, goes to play freespace2**

[NGTM-1R]

Doubtfully. Now if he had managed to get a fusion reaction that gave out more energy than it consumed, now that would make it more likely
That and the experiment he did has been known for decades. Still, big kudos to him for pulling off something like this in the basement of his home

It's actually been done, but the amount more is infinitesmal, so it's not worth it.