An Indispensable Truth How Fusion Power Can Save the Planet /

• Main Author: Chen, Francis F. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Subjects: Physics.; Renewable energy resources.; Nuclear fusion.; Plasma (Ionized gases).; Renewable energy sources.; Alternate energy sources.; Green energy industries.; Climate change.; Sustainable development.; Nuclear Fusion.; Renewable and Green Energy.; Plasma Physics.; Climate Change.; Sustainable Development.

Both global warming and oil shortage can be solved by controlled fusion, a clean power source that will serve mankind for millennia.� The idea of hydrogen fusion as well as its difficulties are presented in non-technical language to dispel the notion that fusion is always 50 years away.� This book a...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Prologue
• The Evidence for Climate Change
• The Future of Energy I:  Fossil Fuels
• The Future of Energy II:  Renewable Energy
• Fusion:  Energy from the Seawater
• Perfecting the Magnetic Bottle
• The Remarkable Tokamak
• Evolution and Physics of the Tokamak
• A Half-century of Progress
• Engineering:  The Big Challenge
• Fusion Concepts for the Future
• Conclusions
• Epilogue.