- Cold fusion
At 1:00 P.M., on March 23, 1989, two obscure scientists at the University of Utah announced that they had discovered salvation in a test tube - cold nuclear fusion. The technology promised sale, cheap, limitless energy, and the press played it as the scientific breakthrough of the century.
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Classical in form, earnest, resolved and epic.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Gary Taubes
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 503
- Publisher
- Random House
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780394584560
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