Friday, November 19, 2010

Nuclear Fusion...coming up soon!

Which scientific discovery or advance would you like to see in your lifetime? —Luca Zanzi, ALLSTON, MASS.

Stephen Hawking*: I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.

In nuclear fusion, atoms are forcibly joined, releasing energy. It is, say scientists, the "holy grail" of energy production - completely clean and cheap.**



source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2029483,00.html
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking"
**http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10385853

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