jshine
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van de graaff accelerator -- do-able?
(posted in the wrong forum -- apologies)
(posted in the wrong forum -- apologies)
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bcrowell said:This was discussed within the last year or two on this forum -- a search should turn it up.
bcrowell said:1H on 1H is not going to give you appreciable fusion -- the cross-section is super small. Getting a deuterium beam and/or a deuterium target does not sound easy to me as a DIY project.
[EDIT] Corrected an error above -- c.m. energy is 1/2, not 1/4.
Drakkith said:What are your goals for something like this jshine? I am currently attempting to build a Fusor at home. A fusor is similar to what you are thinking of, but it is not beam-target or beam-beam. I've got a 40kv power supply that should be fine for getting detectable fusion out of a Fusor. (Well, as long as it works...got it off ebay...)
Try www.fusor.net for more info on this or look it up on Wikipedia.
jshine said:Hypothetically -- for the sake of argument -- if one didn't mind the expense of D2 ( http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog...RAND_KEY&N4=368407|ALDRICH&N25=0&QS=ON&F=SPEC ), are there any other considerations that would be absolute barriers?
bcrowell said:I outlined a calculation for you in #5. Have you done the calculation?