Farnsworth Fusor

How every DOE Phd physicist can honestly claim they have done fusion while saving billions of dollars

Great ideas are a mile a minute here at Utah Thorium Energy.

I wrote an article a few weeks ago about a Farnsworth Fusor built by a high school student. Here is an old timey photograph (scanned) of the machine taken by me at Utah State University. It consists of a chamber, vacuum pump, high voltage power supply, and neutron detector (seen in the foreground with a few hundred CDs stacked around it).

PhD physicists, who seek employment at the DOE, want to play with large toys like the National Ignition Laboratory and other such baloney while refusing to engage in the dirty work of continuing the development of molten salt reactors. Like the hard work of finding corrosion resistant materials and determining lifetimes and functioning under high radiation environments. You know, the engineering aspects to make molten salt reactors commonplace. Instead, they want to play with fusion toys.

Well here’s my great idea, Edmund scientific or some enterprising person could put together a do it yourself kit for a Farnsworth Fusor. I can’t imagine it wouldn’t cost more than about $100. We would give the kit to each new hire PhD at the DOE.

At each of the 17 DOE centers we would have a high voltage power supply, a vacuum pump, control circuitry, a neutron spectrometer, etc. Those are more expensive but we would only have to buy 17 of each.

The Phd new hires could build their kit, then use the vacuum pump, high voltage power supply, etc. of which there is one each per DOE center. The Phds could have a runoff against each other to see who can get the highest neutron count. This would save the taxpayers billions of dollars a year and the new hires could honestly claim that they’ve done hot fusion.

Imagine the billions of dollars that could be saved by not building the national ignition facility! And each Phd physicist could take the fusor home after the science fair is over.