You're looking for a small, well-camo'd, water tight container containing a log, a handful of foreign coins, and one of the copper vacuum seal rings from my fusion reactor.
If you find that your sunny day coordinates are different from my cloudy day coordinates, please do let me know and I'll update them!
Please be sure to wedge the container tightly back where it came from!
There are two ways to liberate energy from the atom: fission and fusion. Fission is the process of blasting atoms together so hard that the break apart into lighter elements and release a burst of photon energy and neutrons in the process. Fusion does the opposite; it slams smaller atoms together and generates larger ones, which also produces a great deal of energy in the form of liberated neutrons and photons.
Fusion has long been possible in the lab; it was first achieved in 1932.
The ability to perform fission and fusion is completely apart from the idea of harvesting power from them. Fission is way ahead of fusion in this regard; fission reactor power plants have been in service since 1954.
We have yet to achieve building a fusion reactor with a net output that's useful for power generation. The task is enormous and costly. We must build a system that can withstand the enormous temperatures involved; the plasma inside must reach 15,000,000 degrees. Many other technical challenges have yet to be solved as well. The old joke has always been "practical fusion is 30 years away."
Amazingly, there is a much smaller and more easily achieved kind of fusion reactor, one you can build in your garage. It has no net power output and the design never will for a variety of reasons, but it is possible none the less to produce nuclear fusion in your own machine.
This one is mine! It's called a "Farnsworth-Hirsch Fusor." Instead of massive magnets containing the plasma, it uses an electrostatic voltage gradient in a spherical accelerator, dragging ions through the center of the sphere.
Mad For Science: Fusion
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