FAILED! Farnsworth Fusor: Demonstration Fusion Reactor

A Farnsworth Fusor is an early design for a nuclear fusion reactor. The design is ultimately impractical for fusion power generation, because the amount of power generated with such a design has never come close to even equaling the amount of power that must be put in to sustain the reaction. The design is used by hobbyists, however, to perform small amounts of nuclear fusion. The fusor design attempted in this video is not even intended to produce any nuclear fusion. Rather, it is an attempt at a demonstration of the concept, intended to produce a "star in a jar," a bright ball of plasma, driven by high voltage electricity, inside a vacuum chamber. No deuterium gas is used, and even if it was, the temperatures and pressures achievable by this design would not be sufficient to perform fusion. Unfortunately, the "star in a jar" was not achieved either, due to insufficient quality of vacuum inside the chamber. This was still an interesting project, however, and will hopefully be revisited in the future.
Working with high voltage and vacuum chambers on their own is dangerous, but combining the two is especially dangerous. Do not attempt this yourself unless you have the necessary experience to do it safely!
Inspired by the Fusor design presented in Make Magazine: makezine.com/p...
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