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The purpose of this web site is to poetically wax about Fusion Power as a noble human enterprise.

The pursuit is noble due to it's level of challenge. Going faster than the speed of sound is easier. Going to the bottom of the ocean is easier. Sending a satellite out of the Solar System is easier. Getting man on the Moon is easier.

This web site does not explain how hard it is to change laboratory Fusion into mankind's clean Fusion Power energy.  This site may explain why it is hard.  To be explicit, what barriers a scientist erects to the success, such as: tunnel vision, a political funding process, or racing like a hare, instead of being the tortoise, slow and steady, to cross the finish line before the hare.

New, different angles are expounded, angles found in few, if any, publications.  Both Ups and Downs, perhaps many more Downs than Up are rationalized.  After all, the site is about why Fusion Power is hard to achieve.  The goal is expose ambient conditions that go unnoticed, like a fish in water does not know it is in water.

This site is not a historical itemization of efforts. What you will not find on this site is a historical list of Fusion Devices, as that is already done by others.  You will not find a list of scientists doing Fusion research, as that is done elsewhere.  The names of projects and the people have been excluded, as it would be unfair to them, to be singularly included, to have it pointed out they have not succeeded, when no one has succeeded. So, all names are explicitly excluded in this site's poetic review of man's noble pursuit.  Especially, as all pursuits have claimed it will be more than 'ten years' or more, before they have a production model to generate Fusion Power.  Such is the granted poetic license.

Brief History of Fusion

Fusion changed from the twinkle in the eye of 1900's scientists with the invention of Quantum Mechanics by the acceptance of light photons as particles, not just of light as waves, by way of Albert Einstein paper in 1905.  From photons came atoms.

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Confusion about Fusion: Early attitudes 75 years later still blind.

Playing devil's advocate provides insights into the historical past and up through the contemporary design directions of plasma reactors for electrical power generation.

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History of Laboratory Fusion

In 1934, laboratory fusion was first performed by three scientists: Oliphant, Harteck, and Rutherford.

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