A Piece of the Sun: The Quest for Fusion EnergyOur rapidly industrializing world has an insatiable hunger for energy, but conventional sources are running out. The solution, says Daniel Clery in this deeply revelatory book, is to be found in the original energy source: the Sun itself. There, at its center, the fusion of 620 million tons of hydrogen every second generates an unfathomable amount of energy. By replicating even a tiny piece of the Sun’s power on Earth, we can secure all the heat and energy we would ever need. The simple yet extraordinary ambition of nuclear-fusion scientists has garnered many skeptics, but, as A Piece of the Sun makes clear, large-scale nuclear fusion is scientifically possible—and perhaps even preferable to other options. Clery argues passionately and eloquently that the only thing keeping us from harnessing this cheap, clean and renewable energy is our own shortsightedness. |
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A PIECE OF THE SUN: The Quest for Fusion Energy
User Review - KirkusA surprisingly sprightly tour d'horizon of the pursuit of fusion energy, from Science deputy news director Clery.Fusion is all, writes the author: "Every atom in your body, apart from the hydrogen ... Read full review
A very good review of Hot Fusion work and the need to fund it.
Sadly overlooks LENR Lattice Enabled / Low Energy nuclear reactions.
That's increasingly sad as hundreds of millions in research investment are now going in to LENR work, despite the denial movement in the theoretical plasma physics community. In science, experimental evidence trumps ideology.
The "cold fusion" world has been over-unity for 27 years, and the hot-fusion world isn't there yet, so it is to be expected that there is a lot of antagonism. But a good scientist should be aware of science across academic boundaries. As LENR is getting in Nature and Scientific American recently, books that omit it will be seen as out of date.
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| Title | A Piece of the Sun: The Quest for Fusion Energy |
| Author | Daniel Clery |
| Publisher | The Overlook Press, 2014 |
| ISBN | 1468310410, 9781468310412 |
| Length | 336 pages |
| Subjects | › › Science / Earth Sciences / General Science / Energy Science / General |
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