<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Great article in Spectrum about this a few years back, pretty plasma pictures:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/nuclear/fusion-on-a-budget">http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/nuclear/fusion-on-a-budget</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">The electron microscope likely has most of the necessary parts (vacuum pump & chamber, HV supply…)</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none;">Note that a working fusor emits slow neutron radiation that will make it and everything around it slightly radioactive. </span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-size: medium; ">Maybe we can use it </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-size: medium; ">to sterilize the bedbugs.</span></div><div><br></div><div><br>On Apr 28, 2012, at 1:56 AM, Jake <<a href="mailto:jake@spaz.org">jake@spaz.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>is anyone here interested in trying to make fusion? something like a </span><br><span>farnsworth fusor?</span><br><span></span><br><span>I really think we need to be doing this. I can provide instrumentation (i </span><br><span>have some national instruments hardware) and neutron detection, and i'm </span><br><span>sure we can build a high-voltage power supply and i know a glassblower and </span><br><span>a person who welds stainless steel...</span><br><span></span><br><span>probably would take some actual cash to get things like a turbomolecular </span><br><span>pump, some of the valves, the sightglass assembly parts, and deuterium </span><br><span>(although i am much more interested in working with plain hydrogen)</span><br><span></span><br><span>please tell me i'm not the only one.</span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYlgyEyWg1g&feature=endscreen&NR=1">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYlgyEyWg1g&feature=endscreen&NR=1</a></span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="http://www.wjscience.com/">http://www.wjscience.com/</a></span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="http://fusor.net">http://fusor.net</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>-jake</span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Noisebridge-discuss mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net">Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net</a></span><br><span><a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss">https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>