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Binding
Hardcover
Weight
1 lbs
Product Group
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ISBN
9780670020331
Book Title
Sun In a Bottle : the Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking
Item Length
8.5 in
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Year
2008
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
1.1 in
Author
Charles Seife
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Science
Topic
Power Resources / Nuclear, Energy
Item Width
5.8 in
Item Weight
15.6 Oz
Number of Pages
304 Pages

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The author of Zero looks at the messy history of the struggle to harness fusion energy . When weapons builders detonated the first hydrogen bomb in 1952, they tapped into the vastest source of energy in our solar system--the very same phenomenon that makes the sun shine. Nuclear fusion was a virtually unlimited source of power that became the center of a tragic and comic quest that has left scores of scientists battered and disgraced. For the past half-century, governments and research teams have tried to bottle the sun with lasers, magnets, sound waves, particle beams, and chunks of metal, have struggled to harness the power of fusion. (The latest venture, a giant, multi-billion-dollar, international fusion project called ITER, is just now getting underway.) Again and again, they have failed, disgracing generations of scientists. Throughout this fascinating journey Charles Seife introduces us to the daring geniuses, villains, and victims of fusion science: the brilliant and tortured Andrei Sakharov; the monomaniacal and Strangelovean Edward Teller; Ronald Richter, the secretive physicist whose lies embarrassed an entire country; and Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann, the two chemists behind the greatest scientific fiasco of the past hundred years. Sun in a Bottle is the first major book to trace the story of fusion from its beginnings into the 21st century, of how scientists have gotten burned by trying to harness the power of the sun.

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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0670020338
ISBN-13
9780670020331
eBay Product ID (ePID)
65815330

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Book Title
Sun In a Bottle : the Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking
Author
Charles Seife
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Power Resources / Nuclear, Energy
Publication Year
2008
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Science
Number of Pages
304 Pages

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Item Length
8.5 in
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Item Weight
15.6 Oz

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Trade
Lc Classification Number
Qc791.S45 2008
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Written with clarity and infectious enthusiasm that are rare in science writing. . . . Zerois really something.” --The Washington Post, In a culture mesmerised by the market, Sandel's is the indispensable voice of reason ... if we ... bring basic values into political life in the way that Sandel suggests, at least we won't be stuck with the dreary market orthodoxies that he has so elegantly demolished, “Written with clarity and infectious enthusiasm that are rare in science writing. . . . Zero is really something.â€� -- The Washington Post
Copyright Date
2008
Lccn
2008-013135
Dewey Decimal
539.7/64
Dewey Edition
22

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  • by georgetheengineer
    21 Jan, 2010

    review of the book Sun in a Bottle

    This is an excellent history of the troubled research for practical fusion energy generation. It starts before the nuclear arms race of the Second World Warand gives a very complete review of the people and actions involved in that research. That is important as most to the earlier researchers in Hydrogen fusion were the people thet created the first atomic bombe. The information on the politics of funding the fusion research is given to allow the reader to understand the frustration of the researchers and the danger of overly aggressive project managers focusing mainly on the weapons function of a new technology.. There is enough atomic physics detail of both the working of and research into the fusion process to satisfy even an engineering or scientist type reader. This accurate ...

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