Hi! I've found this an interesting site; been an occasional contributor to discussion, and possibly, one day a fellow experimenter with a fusor. I'm an electrical engineer w/Physics postgrad work, about 30 yrs experience in Power industry R&D. Retired about 6 yrs ago from the Southern Cal utility that's been embarassing us. Last 4 yrs have worked making "low" (90 kV) voltage electron beam tubes and equipment. Recently begun teaching electronics full time at a local college. IN my spare time I do some consulting and a little experimenting in my lab.
Learned about this site through a link from a site on Tesla Coils, a longtime interest. Met Robert Golka, whom some may know about, many yrs ago, when he was looking for support for a fusion-like concept involving Ball Lightning. We didn't fund it.
I am personally uncertain if the IEC concept, ultimately will be more successful than other concepts of fusion, all of which also produce neutrons in abundance, just not enough to actually power the apparatus and thus make a practical power generator.
I think power extraction techniques are a difficult hurdle, beside the radioactivity and efficiency issues.... but that said, the fusor is a particularly neat way to do low cost fusion experiments. Therein lies its principal advantage over all other approaches.
Let the experiments go forward!
Dave Cooper
Created on Sunday, February 04, 2001 1:41 AM EDT by David Cooper