Word: fusion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There, literature and painting-the word and the image, deadly enemies in America-had merged. This fusion had been started a century before by Baudelaire, Mallarme and the symbolists. Their belief in direct equivalences between color, sound, sensation and memory struck Motherwell as one of the supreme achievements of culture: the key to modernist experience. It enabled the homely Protestant to hold his feelings tight in a cultural matrix...
...tritium, compressing and heating the mixture. If the impinging beams are energetic enough, the effect will be so great that the nuclei will fuse, releasing energy like a miniature H-bomb. Among others, researchers at Los Alamos (N. Mex.) Scientific Laboratory and the Lawrence Livermore lab have achieved fusion in laser experiments with the pellets. More impressive reactions may occur in late 1977, when scientists at Lawrence Livermore complete work on the $25 million Shiva, the world's largest and most powerful laser. On the other hand, experts at Sandia Laboratories in Albuquerque are pinning their hopes for achieving...
...progress continues at the present rate, the Energy Research and Development Administration-which supplies most of the half-billion dollars now being spent annually for U.S. fusion research-predicts that by the late '70s or early '80s researchers in the U.S., U.S.S.R. and Japan could achieve "break even," or the point at which a machine produces as much power as it uses. Then researchers can concentrate on attaining ignition conditions: the time-temperature-density combinations at which the fusion reaction sustains itself. "By 1985," dreams Ronald Parker of M.I.T.'s Alcator fusion program, "we will have...
...Some experts feel that even after break-even, the engineering of practical power plants will be difficult and their construction expensive. Admits Lawrence Livermore Physicist John Emmett: "No one is saying it will be cheap." Still, given the seriousness of the energy crisis, that is no reason to sidetrack fusion research in favor of programs promising quicker payoffs. "Shortrange solutions last a short time," warns Princeton Physicist Melvin Gottlieb. "Longterm solutions take decades to achieve...
...goal of fusion seems worth the work, for, as the world depletes the last of its fossil fuel, the promise of an inexhaustible supply of energy seems cheap at any price. There is enough deuterium in the oceans to supply energy -even if present demand increases a hundredfold-for 10 billion years...