Ronald Richter working on the Huemul Project, the first fusion project that allegedly proved the feasibility of fusion. It was also the first fusion project identified as fraud.
By Daniel L. Jassby, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab (ret.)
April 27, 2022
Reprinted with permission from the American Physical Society Forum on Physics and Society April 2019 Newsletter, pp 13-16
“It is much easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” – Mark Twain
Modern Fusion Fantasies
During the last decade a host of fusion energy “startups” have captured the attention of the technology press and blogosphere. These startups promise to develop practical fusion electric power generators in 5 to 15 years, and incidentally will achieve ITER’s planned performance in a…
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