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It's one of those hoax stories that keeps popping up, along with energy from water. Try this copy/paste from the story: "He is the 38th independent amateur physicist in the world to achieve nuclear fusion from a homemade reactor, according to community site Fusor.net. Others on the list include a 15-year-old from Michigan... Some experts are sceptical that all these people are producing fusion reactions, but when he…
The problem is that none of these amateur physicists are generating any power. I guess the holy grail is not fusion, but generating power from it.
Yea.. And we have fission, a proven power source over the last 50 years but nooooo, we need to invent something even better. Fusion is possible, but actually getting it to reliably generate power is a long ways off.