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Fusors aren't room temperature.

It looks like positive-return-on-energy fusion will almost certainly be achievable in 5-10 years, though it won't be commercializable for a lot longer than that.



Fusors are room temperature. It’s the electrical gradient which produces the reaction, not temperature.


The ions thermalise very quickly even in a fusor; if they fused on the first collision rather than bouncing this whole thing would be much easier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor#Thermalization_of_the_io...

I do like how incredibly simple and easy fusors are compared to the other types of fusion reactor, but sadly they are still very very hot where it counts.




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