DIY Nuclear Fusion Device

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Speelgoedmannetje spoke:

Is this thread about fusion of two atoms?
one with a core build up with electrons and neutrons and with orbiting protons and one with a core build up with protons and neutrons and with orbiting electrons? (Or was that anti-matter?)

;-) You're forgetting that protons have the same mass as neutrons, while electrons have so little mass as to be almost negligible.  Switching their places wouldn't produce anything stable, I think.

Rather, anti-matter uses anti-matter particles.  Positrons have the same scant mass as electrons, while anti-protons have equal mass to protons, but with the opposite charge.

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KennyR:

...anyone who sets out to present cold fusion to the academic world is discredited from the start and really needs to work hard to open eyes.

;-) You're right, the academic world is very quick to discredit anything new, even without viewing the evidence.

The energies that are needed to fuse two nuclei together are absolutely staggering - even at the billions of atmospheres pressure and millions of kelvin, its unlikely to ever happen - just the sheer number of them in a stellar core means it happens often enough to form a chain reaction. The conditions for fusion just can't exist in everyday matter, just in plasma at collosal energies. There is no easy route to fusion, no matter how clever.

;-) Those are just the environmental conditions under which fusion cannot help but happen.  To make fusion happen on demand is just a matter of finding a clever enough methodology.  Of course, no one said finding the correct method would be easy.