There was no Pique the Geek last week because I was preparing for Youngest Son to visit. We had a great time last week, cooking, eating, throwing darts, and rebonding. For those of you interested in what we ate, I hosted What’s for Dinner last evening, here.
It is not either possible nor feasible to attempt the fusion that Sol does here on earth because of the impossibility of gathering enough mass to make a very slow reaction work (remember, fusing two protons to a deuteron requires the involvement of the weak nuclear force, and that is a very slow process), nor the temperatures required to make that happen.
Please see the two previous installments of this series here and here, to make things more clear.