How much vacuum?

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Tristan_ruel
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How much vacuum?

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Hello,

Very basic question but one that I’ve seen different answers to, how deep of a vacuum in microns does one need to achieve fusion?

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Tristan
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Richard Hull
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Re: How much vacuum?

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A loaded question.... Many factors enter into this. I did and proved fusion with just a superbly functioning mechanical pump that would not go below 8 microns. I burned through $200 worth of deuterium doing it over the first three months of doing fusion. How much fusion? Just barely enough to prove I had done it. I stopped this stupidity by doing many things to improve my efforts back in 1999. Read the FAQs.

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Progress may have been a good thing once, but it just went on too long. - Yogi Berra
Fusion is the energy of the future....and it always will be
The more complex the idea put forward by the poor amateur, the more likely it will never see embodiment
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