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Re:South Korea's fusion device KSTAR runs for 20 seconds at ... by nielu on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @01:39AM (#25262990)
I'm not sure about the garage, but you can sure do it in your microwave - NileRed did a video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0u8Vtf2GoQ

Aaand he had to break all of his beakers afterwards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGqVMbAQhBs

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Re:South Korea's fusion device KSTAR runs for 20 seconds at ... by Voloskaya on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @11:19AM (#25266522)
The plasma you can generate in your microwave is nowhere near 100M degrees. The low range of plasma temperature is at around ~6K Celsius.
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Re:South Korea's fusion device KSTAR runs for 20 seconds at ... by drran on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @11:47AM (#25266861)
Such amount of plasma at 100M°K will destroy the whole building. Temperature of nuclear explosion is less than 1M°K.
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