Yes but still not hot enough to make traditional hot fusion. Even easier just to turn on a fluorescent lamp.
Or what is the point here? David David Jonsson, Sweden, phone callto:+46703000370 On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > You have heard the term “nuking” used to describe rapid heating in a > microwave oven. > > Amazingly, here is a low tech way to make a stable plasma, using a common > candle as the starter for the flame which becomes a plasma ball. > > *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7RFyh5ABcQ*<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7RFyh5ABcQ> > > No vacuum, nor magnetic confinement, nor even a Farnsworth Fusor is > required. > > In this case, the experiment ran a little too long - and the Pyrex bowl > was sacrificed (for science) > > Yet … and here is an odd implication: did you realize that deuterated wax > is available ? > > For a few naive parents of precocious students, realize that your average > teenage science nerd may have already ordered some of this wax. Talk about > the scary possibility of “fusion in a budget” ! > > Not sure I care to imagine all of the further possibilities …. > > Jones > >
