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FIRST FUSION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ve been doing trials on the fusor all night. Finally GOT IT. WE HAVE FIRST FUSION. LOOK AT THIS BUBBLE: I had the Glassman power supply maxed out, and the deuterium pressure at ~9 millitorr. The...
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QUADRUPLE BUBBLE!!!!
All photos. With the vacuum pump working again, I assembled the fusor and attempted a fusion run last night. It was a day frought with challenges, but in the end the bubble meter saw 4 bubbles in 2...
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Press
Wow. Last wednesday I woke up to a new world when the BBC and Gizmodo articles dropped. Read all about it: The definitive piece is by Quinn Norton – No Sleep ‘Til Fusion. This article is amazing –...
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PERSISTENT SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNET VICTORY!!!
All photos. I have put the superconducting magnet into a persistent state!!!!! Power supplies off, magnet still going! Details to follow. UPDATE: OK. Here it is. The units are in raw volts coming from...
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Cryogenic Cocktail Party
All photos. Last night my shop mate Stuart hosted a cryogenic cocktail party using his cryo-freezer and my liquid nitrogen. The cryofreezer goes down to -120˚ C, cold enough to freeze liquor! We had...
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Sydney Experiment: We Have Electron Confinement!!!
All photos. 1 year, 7 months and 8 days ago I learned of the copper coil Polywell that Joe Khachan and his team built. I decided to repeat Joe’s experiment. Although challenging it seemed possible to...
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Deepest Potential Well Yet: 43 Volts
All photos. I’ve been running shots on the Polywell yesterday and today. Just got my deepest potential well yet: 43 Volts. 10KV, 10mA on electron gun. 420V through coils. 8.5 millitorr air: Be sure to...
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Electron Gun Operational!
All photos. Electron gun operational: I got these high voltage supplies made for CRTs: I still need to play around to get it focused, but a great start!
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Terrifying Power
All photos. Tonight I really experienced the power of the coil power supply. Whoa. I’ve been working to increase the coil current from ~1.2kA to ~2.5kA. Previously I discovered the coil discharge path...
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Electron Gun Success
All photos Today we tested the electron gun in the chamber, and we detected a negative potential on the Langmuir probe, which means it worked! Negative nine volts on the Langmuir probe Fuck yeah!...
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