➔ The Sun in a Bottle: Nuclear Fusion and Quantum Computing
Book: Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything Author: Michio Kaku ISBN: 978-0385548366
Every twenty years, physicists claim that fusion power is just another twenty years in the future. This joke has been going around for decades and it’s still accurate. Chapter 15 takes on nuclear fusion, why it’s so hard, and whether quantum computers could finally break the cycle of delays.
As someone who works with complex systems every day, I appreciate the engineering honesty in this chapter. The physics of fusion is solved. The engineering is what keeps failing us.
➔ Greening the World: Quantum Computing and Artificial Photosynthesis
Book: Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything Author: Michio Kaku ISBN: 978-0385548366
Chapter 7 is about something we all take for granted. Plants. Green stuff everywhere. You walk through a forest, everything is alive and growing, and you don’t think much about it. Kaku makes you stop and consider what is actually happening at the molecular level though. Scientists still don’t fully understand how photosynthesis works. After 3 billion years of it happening on Earth, we still can’t explain the first step properly.