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  • The Quest for Fusion Energy
  • By: Daniel Clery
  • Narrated by: Don Hagen
  • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (21 ratings)
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By: Daniel Clery
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Summary

Our rapidly industrializing world has an insatiable hunger for energy and conventional sources are struggling to meet demand. Oil is running out, coal is damaging our climate, many nations are abandoning nuclear, yet solar, wind, and water will never be a complete replacement. The solution, says Daniel Clery in this deeply researched and 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.

Nuclear fusion scientists have pursued this simple yet extraordinary ambition for decades. Skeptics say it will never work but, as A Piece of the Sun makes clear, large-scale nuclear fusion is scientifically possible - and has many advantages over other options. Fusion is clean, green and virtually limitless and Clery argues passionately and eloquently that the only thing keeping us from proving its worth is our politicians’ shortsightedness. The world energy industry is worth trillions of dollars, divert just a tiny fraction of that into researching fusion and we would soon know if it is workable.

Timely and authoritative, A Piece of the Sun is a rousing call-to-arms to seize this chance of avoiding the looming energy crisis.

Daniel Clery studied theoretical physics at York University, U.K. For more than two decades, he has edited and written for some of the world’s top science magazines, including Physics World, New Scientist and Science. As a news editor for Science magazine since 1993, Clery has covered many of the biggest science news stories of our time.

©2013 Daniel Clery (P)2013 Gildan Media LLC

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A little bit dated but a good history

Written 2013 so doesn't have the latest. Can't help feeling that for decades scientists haven’t really been focused on a practical device but have been more interested in plasma physics

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excellent summary

informative and entertaining. Avoids too many pop science / soft science tropes, yet is highly listenable and engaging. Tells the history like a story, keeping you wanting to find out what happens next.

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A great summary of Nuclear Fusion efforts

History, people, political background and some personal struggles: This book is the history of fusion.

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well written history of fusion research

highly recommend. a detailed and nicely constructed history of fusion. simple and easy to understand

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