A little help regarding a fusion reactor?

[elitekiltedcommando]

Okay first off, I'm not a terrorist. My friend was bumming around on the internet and found an article about a high school student creating a working fusion reactor. Naturally, being high school students with a love for this sort of maniacal scheme, we've decided to build one.

So far the best info I've come across is from www.fusor.net and http://www.brian-mcdermott.com/fusion_is_easy.htm

Does anyone have any suggestions for other places where I could get more information on this sort of project? Thanks.

[Bob C]

If scientists haven't been able to create cold fusion, I doubt kids messing around on the Internet are going to.

Good luck, though. I'm all for clean, cheap energy.

[Dirk Skene]

kinda reminds me of a scene in Weird Al's movie UHF. The TV station engineer gets his own science show. He tells his audience "Today we will learn to make plutonium from common household items"

[Caradoc]

If scientists haven't been able to create cold fusion, I doubt kids messing around on the Internet are going to.

Good luck, though. I'm all for clean, cheap energy.

The reactor in question generates about enough power to heat a cup of coffee, and requires a lot more power to run than it generates.

Does anyone have any suggestions for other places where I could get more information on this sort of project?

Were I in your place, I'd enlist my high school's physics teacher. Do you at least have an understanding of what you're about to get into?

[cavscout]

I'm not sure but I'd say your going to need a lot of tin foil and a good shower cap and goggles.

"Now all I have to do is split this atom....where did I put that chisel? BOOM!" Young Einstein

[Caradoc]

He tells his audience "Today we will learn to make plutonium from common household items"

Smoke detectors and Coleman lantern mantles.

Add a few more odds and ends that can be scrounged, and it could be done.

[Bob C]

Smoke detectors and Coleman lantern mantles.

Add a few more odds and ends that can be scrounged, and it could be done.

That's true, but the lad asked about fusion, not fission.

[Caradoc]

That's true, but the lad asked about fusion, not fission.

Oh, I know. I was referring to the comment about "making plutonium from household items."

[Skweres]

"the red wire connects to the...blue wire...the blue wire connects to the...BOOM!!!" and....thats the end of joe, i can see it now