Monday, February 22, 2010

Star Mode-Achieved!

Finally, with a new grid based off of interlocking washers, I have achieved "star mode" from my fusor. This occurs when plasma jets, electron, and ion beams emanate from the plasma at many points inside the inner grid.

The ground fault protection on my neon sign transformer fires rapidly (I desperately need a new NST) when operating in this mode, rendering it hard to get a good picture of this. My best efforts are shown below.



4 comments:

  1. Really outstanding! Re: deuterium production, you might want to seek out a copy of "The Production of Heavy Water" by George Moseley Murphy published by McGraw-Hill in 1955 as Volume III-4F of the National Nuclear Energy Series. Volumes in this series occasionally pop up on eBay, alas, often at ridiculous prices. Take a look at Keny Lundberg's web page at http://www.mit.edu/~klund/books/nnes.html.

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  2. Cool pictures! Keep posting, this stuff is great.

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  3. that is freakin awesome!

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  4. Awesome, Awesome, Awesome - Proving again that Fusion is really attainable to the common person.

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