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Sun in a Bottle by Charles Seife6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() The United States and several other industrial nations recently agreed optimistically to sink billions of dollars into a 30-year fusion power project. The two most promising approaches today use plasma and lasers, but again, Seife reports, scientists have been repeatedly frustrated. The problem, as with all fusion devices except the hydrogen bomb, is to produce more energy than the fusion process consumes. ![]() Many readers will remember the 1989 “cold fusion” debacle, but Seife explains why tabletop fusion isn't all that difficult to achieve. ) takes a long, hard look at nuclear fusion and the failure of one scheme after another to turn it into a sustainable energy source. Award-winning science journalist Seife ( Zero Like all too many shining visions, fusion turned out to be a mirage. Fifty years ago scientists and futurists glowingly predicted a future in which cars would run on little fusion cells and the world would extract deuterium from the oceans for an inexhaustible supply of energy. ![]()
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