An At Home Fusion Reactor

Summary:
A 4" diameter stainless steel fusor with a 1" stainless steel spherical inner grid
0-30KV 15mA power supply (homemade, variable)
20 micron vacuum pump (modified for more convenient intake)

Hopefully, when the plasma is present the pressure will dip into the ~5 micron (or less) range so that I won't have to waste too much Deuterium.

When the fusor is done, it will be able to perform Deuterium + Deuterium fusion to create 3He + n (50% of the time) and Tritum (3H) + p (50% of the time). It is able to overcome the coloumb barrier with the very large electrostatic field that can be created (in excess of 30KeV) and therefore is explained by physics - this is NOT cold fusion! In fact, it isn't anything new; this system of fusion has been around since the 1960s when Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of electronic television, came up with the idea. It was later improved by Hirsch and Meeks.

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I need to have a good long look at the physics behind this. It would be kind of cool to build one of these though.

UPDATE: Sweet Jesus! It's real!

On October 8, 1960, the Mark I produced a steady­state neutron count when deuterium was admitted into the device with very low power application. The central feature during these tests was not the neutron count itself. What was sought in these tests lay in the control of the reaction under increasing power application. Farnsworth established and charted increasing neutron counts with increasing application of electrostatic power. It is suggested that the reader obtain and study copies of the Fusor (patent 3,386,883).