The Lancet, Volume 359, Issue 9310
, Page 908, 16 March 2002
doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(02)08016-9Cite or Link Using DOI
Hot, cold, and now bubble fusion
For almost 50 years now, physicists have been trying to mimic energy-producing mechanisms that the sun uses. It is very difficult to persuade two people who naturally repel each other to come together-and so it is with nuclear fusion. The hydrogen bomb, a fusion device, needs an atom bomb to get it started. Huge and very expensive experiments with “hot” fusion are still in progress, but a commercially viable machine seems as far away as ever.
Then, in 1989, came “cold” fusion. Perhaps deuterium a ...
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