12-Year-Old Claims to Have Achieved Nuclear Fusion at Home (2018)

Re:12-Year-Old Claims to Have Achieved Nuclear Fusion at Hom... by Ancalagon on Friday February 22, 2019 @08:06PM (#19230851)

This is pretty inspirational. Im curious how much a setup like this must cost though? Cursory investigations into vaccuum costs seem pretty prohibitively high for a 12 year old, even most middle class parents. Very cool though.

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Re:12-Year-Old Claims to Have Achieved Nuclear Fusion at Hom... by feedbeef on Friday February 22, 2019 @09:37PM (#19231237)

Looks to be around $1.5-3k USD in his setup photos, likely less if he's using some used/surplus equipment, which is quite possible. Stainless fittings and tubing are surprisingly affordable. About $250 for the Deuterium.

Edit: sibling points out it may be $10k. I wonder if that price includes other equipment not shown. If not, apologies for the gross underestimation ($1.5-3k seemed reasonable - most of the equipment pricing can be looked up).

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Re:12-Year-Old Claims to Have Achieved Nuclear Fusion at Hom... by roywiggins on Friday February 22, 2019 @08:37PM (#19230995)

I saw a figure in another article that said $10k had gone into his fusor.

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