-----Original Message----- From: pagnu...@htdconnect.com Ed,
You may be correct, but if you could amplify your comment - "Neutrons can be made at 35kv, as described on the article, but at a low rate." I would be interested, since I (perhaps erroneously) thought that neutron production was almost impossible in bare electron-proton(or deuteron) collisions at these energies. Lou The Farnsworth Fusor has been around for a long time and produces up to 10,000 neutrons per second at 35 kv (or less). This is deuterium fusion but is often called "warm" instead of "hot" since the input power is fairly low. This is technically ICF - inertial confinement fusion - since the tube is spherical and benefits from what is known as "spherical convergence". If Larsen did not know of this device, it is almost bone-headed, given Farnsworth's fame (he invented television) and the publicity that the Fusor has received over the years. Jones
