Overview
Demonstrates with facts and figures why nuclear fusion power will arrive, if at all, too late to help prevent climate change
Presents a clear and accessible overview of magnetic nuclear fusion as a potential energy-generating option
Describes the immense unsolved problems still facing nuclear fusion researchers and engineers
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book gives an accessible overview of the 70-year history of nuclear fusion research and the vain attempts to construct an energy-generating nuclear fusion reactor. It shows that even in the most optimistic scenario nuclear fusion, despite the claims of its proponents and the billions being spent on research, will not be able to make a sizable contribution to the energy mix in this century. The important consequence is that nuclear fusion will not be a factor in combating climate change, since the race for carbon-free energy will have been won or lost long before the first nuclear fusion power station comes on line.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
The author has had an active career in high-energy physics, earning a PhD from Utrecht University in 1976 and working as a post-doc at various research centres in Europe and Japan until 1988, when he switched to law and legal translation.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sun in a Bottle?... Pie in the Sky!
Book Subtitle: The Wishful Thinking of Nuclear Fusion Energy
Authors: L. J. Reinders
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74734-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74733-6Published: 01 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-74734-3Published: 31 July 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 293
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 43 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Atmospheric Sciences, Climate, general