Word: fusions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other things, dentists' drills and delicate eye surgery, recording and playing back compact discs, measuring the distance to the moon, creating and viewing holograms, industrial cutting and welding, sending voices and data through the air and down optical fibers, surveying roads and building sites, generating energy in controlled-nuclear-fusion experiments, "painting" dots on a drum in laser printers and as high-tech pointers in lecture halls...
Producing energy through nuclear fusion is easy enough to do--provided you have a reactor that can generate temperatures hotter than the sun's. If you could somehow achieve fusion at room temperature, you'd have an unlimited source of power that could retire petroleum, nuclear and solar energy for good...
...chemists B. Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announced to great fanfare that they had done just that, building a bench-top fusion percolator made up of two electrodes and a slug of heavy water. But Pons and Fleischmann were vague about how their "cold fusion" reactor worked, and when other scientists tried to duplicate the pair's results, they got mostly cold water for their trouble...
...University of Utah, which held the patent on the process, allowed it to lapse, and cold fusion fell from view. Pons and Fleischmann repaired to Europe to continue their work-- separately and quietly...
...Above everything, I hope the audience got a sense of what South Asia is like," Naidu says. "It's such a diverse culture, and to see all the parts--from the traditional, to the modern, to the Fusion dance, which combined salsa and classical and pop and freestyle--was incredible...