Nuclear fusion, explained for beginners

You can't just have electricity at the ready with Fusion, the process works almost the same way as current nuclear reactors, minus the radioactive waste,, Still need a big reactor that can heat a lot of water to make steam which can drive turbines that spin generators... What she was describing as far as "electricity at your fingertips" is "cold fusion" which is impossible. The Fusion reactor she wants to build is a Farnsworth Fusor, I made one a while ago, they are fairly easy... errr.. compared to a stellarator..... It is a vacuum container that you put two rings of metal in (one inside the other) that then have high voltage applied, which attracts atoms to them, causing some of them to speed up enough to collide with others and fuse.. that is a super duper simplified description. You can find them all over youtube. Thing is, Just because you are fusing.... doesn't mean you are making electricity, in order to make electricity, our best method right now is to heat water to steam to drive a generator,