fusors has anyone buit one?

[strange_bike]

hi guys hope i`m posting this in the right place. I`ve been reading stuff on the fusor by Farnsworth/Hirsch and I`m not convinced that it is capable of fusion as some of the texts suggest. I`m just wondering if anyone has produced a fusor that actually produced helium as a by product. The second part of my question is could it be converted to produce power and if so how much and is that more then the amount put in?

 

now this is a question from an amatuer so could we keep the wording simple as if it gets too full ofjargon i`mgonna loose you.

 

cheers guys

[insane_alien]

the farnsworth-hirsch fusor is perfectly capablele of fusion. it just doesn't produce a lot of it. and any home built fusor is not going to produce enough to have detectable amounts of helium in the by products unless you happen to have a very sensitive mass spectrometer on hand. also, your not going to brak even energy wise with one of those.

[CPL.Luke]

there is now a new version of the fusor device that is capable of producing energy. There was a google talk given on it not to long ago.