Fusion: The Worldwide Race to Capture the Power of the Sun
by Lawrence Kadish • May 16, 2023 at 10:00 am
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For decades it has been the modern version of turning lead into gold but its promise of clean inexhaustible energy is coming closer every year.
The atomic process that powers the sun has the means to alter how we harness energy to power our world, but conquering the physics of containing a fusion reaction has proven to be enormously difficult. Yet the nation that creates a genuine, sustained, fusion reaction will own the future.