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		nielu on Dec 1, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: South Korea's fusion device KSTAR runs for 20 seco... I'm not sure about the garage, but you can sure do it in your microwave - NileRed did a video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0u8Vtf2GoQ Aaand he had to break all of his beakers afterwards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGqVMbAQhBs

sailingparrot on Dec 1, 2020 | [–]

The plasma you can generate in your microwave is nowhere near 100M degrees. The low range of plasma temperature is at around ~6K Celsius.

drran on Dec 1, 2020 | [–]

Such amount of plasma at 100M°K will destroy the whole building. Temperature of nuclear explosion is less than 1M°K.

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