Hello from the UK

[Simon Capp]

Hello,

My name is Simon capp, I've always wanted to build a fusor ever since I first heard about them, they seemed like the holy grail to me. Due to age (just finished 6th form) and lack of funds its probably going to be a few decades (but I live in hope). I was hoping you guys could help me out with a bit of a problem I've been having. As I assume happens quite often with fusion newbies I think that I've come up with an extremely major design change. I know that I'm completely wrong because if it did work people would be using it (people a lot smarter than me), however I can't for the life of me figure out where I'm going wrong and its driving me mad.

I'm trying to read up all I can about the subject and have been doing the maths (so I hope I will find where the problem is soon). However if I do not would it be alright for me to write everything up and post it in the "other forms of fusion section" in the hope that someone here can tell me where the problems are and put me out of my misery.

Thanks

Simon

[Richard Hull]

Simon,

Welcome to fusor.net. You are welcome to posit any ideas you might have in a post in that forum. However, I sense your innate wisdom in the assumption that your fusion physics is weak, and that you are striving to read and learn as fast as possible. I also laud your underlying feeling that if your thoughts were valid, someone would have done it or tested it prior to this time.

It is often not the ideas that are wrong headed, but the lack of physical hands-on experience in the "doing" that ultimately kills what seems like a brilliant idea. There is always a "gotcha' involved in the material physics or a deeper understanding of mechanics or some roadblock or brick wall where the very physics involved will stomp on an idea.

It seems casual fusion accomplished in the "small" for net energy gain is barred by universal physical laws. For if it were possible on less than stellar sizes, the universe would burn itself out in seconds due to the fact that the universe is basically all hydrogen gas. There are so many co-jointly interacting physics principles that seem to crush any hope of localized energy producing fusion reactions that can continuously supply net energy.

I highly recommend you view the PDF file found here. It is a FAQ in the Theory forum and discusses D-D fusion that we do as well as a bit of fusion theory and its realities.

viewtopic.php?f=42&t=13284

This has been hashed out here in hundreds of posts. Read and study the theory and other forms of fusion forums here first and see if you idea is blocked by some of the facts. If not, I would suggest posting your idea for review. It is how we learn via discussion.

Richard Hull

[Simon Capp]

Hello,

Thank you for the warm welcome, I will definitely have a read of that paper. Cheers for digging it out for me.

[Simon Capp]

Hello,

As expected the idea was junk however I have very much enjoyed having a look around the site and hope I have learnt something.

Thanks

Simon

[Richard Hull]

"Knowledge is good" ( Emprinted at the base of the statue of Emil Faber, fictional founder of Faber College.) Seen in opening credits of the movie, "Animal House".

Glad you were made a bit smarter due to your reading effort.

Richard Hull