Fusion or not with Van De Graaff machine and very high voltage

[stevecheang]

Using a Van De Graaff (VDG) machine, we can easily generate million-volt high voltage. The high potential difference can be generated effectively with minimum energy supplied to the machine. The larger the volume of the machine would be, the higher the voltage could get. However, stability would be a problem when the voltage gets to over 10 million-volts. This issue could be resolved with ‘magnified’ machine design. For example,

VDG1, VDG2, VDG3 ==> VDGA
VDG4, VDG5, VDG6 ==> VDGB
VDG7, VDG8, VDG9 ==> VDGC
…
VDGA, VDGB, VDGC ==> VDGX

In that case, VDGA works like a magnifier which aggregates the positive charge (or negative charge conducted from smaller VDGs) and collectively ‘magnifies’ the voltage to higher voltage. Of course, a portion of the positive charge could be lost in the process. However, it could theoretically be possible to keep majority of it until the voltage gets elevated to 100 million volts or higher. With such high voltage working on the deuterium or tritium, gas mixture which could be mixed from a source of gaseous catalyst, selected from the group consisting of beryllium, carbonates, hydroxides, halides, sulfates, phosphates, and sulfides. The reaction produces natural lightning, or occasional fusion reaction if you like.

 

[Danger]

Sounds pretty impractical to me. After all, real lightning can't produce fusion (unless maybe for a couple of unlucky atoms that get caught in a nasty cross-fire). Certainly not any sustained reaction.

 

[stevecheang]

Thanks, Danger. However, the design described here is not about real lightning. You don't get to manipulate real lightning with the addition deuterium or tritium in the picture. You don't get as high voltage as the design theoretically could (if it works).

 

[stevecheang]

Someone asked, "Have you tried the theory to magnify the voltage?" I actually tried building a simple VDG and direct the charges to another larger metal ball (not a VDG) successfully. However, I have never tried more than that. Hence, it would be difficult for me to say for sure whether it definitely would work.