Building a nuclear reactor at home – from scratch3.14.by 34 pointscbaleanu12 years ago4 commentsSaveHideCopy link On HNComments−strak12yIt's an April fools joke, as described in the forumEdit: see the second post: http://3.14.by/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1396−deutronium12yThese guys make a real Tritium betavoltaic battery http://www.citylabs.net/I bet if you had enough tritium keychain fobs, you could power something via a solar panel though.−gexla12yNot to mention the date on the article.April 1, 2011−tesseract12yInteresting that fusion is dismissed so quickly - the Farnsworth-Hirsch fusor is probably the most common DIY nuclear reactor. (It is of course a net energy sink.)
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It's an April fools joke, as described in the forum
Edit: see the second post: http://3.14.by/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1396
These guys make a real Tritium betavoltaic battery http://www.citylabs.net/
I bet if you had enough tritium keychain fobs, you could power something via a solar panel though.
Not to mention the date on the article.
April 1, 2011
Interesting that fusion is dismissed so quickly - the Farnsworth-Hirsch fusor is probably the most common DIY nuclear reactor. (It is of course a net energy sink.)