[extropy-chat] A ROOM-TEMPERATURE PALM-SIZED NUCLEAR FUSION DEVICE

[Adrian Tymes]

--- Neil Halelamien <neuronexmachina at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/27/05, Dirk Bruere <dirk at neopax.com> wrote:
> > It's not the first benchtop fusion device and is about 7 orders of
> > magnitude inferior to the best Farnsworth fusor.
> > http://www.rexresearch.com/farnsworth/fusor.htm
> 
> For what it's worth, here's the last sentence of the Nature paper
> detailing the research:
> 
> http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v434/n7037/full/nature03575.html

And from their editorial on it:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v434/n7037/edsumm/e050428-06.html

> Though not a viable power source, 'crystal fusion' may find
> application as a generator of neutrons for imaging technology.

...which is more or less what we were saying.