➔ The Sun in a Bottle: Nuclear Fusion and Quantum Computing
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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.