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What... no. Igniting fusion is easy. Keeping the plasma confined is the hard part due to its immense heat.

Easy or relatively easy? They still need to pump in enough energy to get it up to a 10 million degree (if not more) temperature.

Fusion can be made in your living room: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor

Great design. I have a friend who took it a bit further, and build the Fusor with Lego bricks. Never since any worries about energy bills, he went completely off the grid!

Wait, I have to reconfigure my bitcoin mining rigs to gold mining.

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