After purchasing the materials he needed and spending more than a year testing his experiment, Jackson officially became the youngest person to achieve nuclear fusion in 2018, when his efforts - ...
Instead of the high-tech apparatus found in traditional fusion labs, he powered his creation with a 12kV neon sign transformer. The result was a device capable of generating plasma—the essential ...
Hudhayfa Nazoordeen has worked on commercial-sized greenhouses and A-frame homes, but the 20-year-old's latest construction is much smaller: a nuclear fusion prototype that's about the size of a hand.
The neon sign transformer, Marx generator, or voltage multiplier was the hard part of the project. But nowadays you can get cheap high voltage modules that are quite inexpensive. [PaulGetson ...
and a neon sign transformer with a variac to control output. Even the optics are completely DIY, a hand drilled gold mirror and a NaCL window made from a polished chunk of icecream salt!