Sun in a bottle : the strange history of fusion and the science of wishful thinking /
The author of Zero chronicles the last half century's haphazard attempt to harness fusion energy, describing how governments and research teams throughout the world have employed measures ranging from the controversial to the humorous, in an account that introduces us to the daring geniuses, vi...
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New York :
Viking,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Sword of Michael
- The valley of iron
- Project plowshare and the sunshine units
- Kinks, instabilities, and baloney bombs
- Heat and light
- The cold shoulder
- Secrets
- Bubble trouble
- Nothing like the Sun
- The science of wishful thinking.