Aug 29, 2019
Hello and welcome
to this episode of Physical Attraction. I’ve been excited about
this for a while. Today, on the show, for the first time ever, we
have not one but TWO guests, who have co-written an excellent book
together. They are both currently researching nuclear fusion, and
they have written a book about the future of fusion energy called…
well, the Future of Fusion Energy.
Dr Justin Ball is currently studying plasma theory at Lausanne, and
Jason Parisi works on turbulent transport in highly magnetized
plasmas just a few buildings away from me here at the University of
Oxford.
Their book is an excellent guide to the science, history, and
future of fusion energy, and of real help in compiling the marathon
efforts in the show so far, so I was excited to be able to grab
both of them for an interview to talk about fusion. Since this
comes after I’ve already been yakking about fusion for ages, the
conversation does assume some knowledge of what nuclear fusion
is, but should
be easy to follow if you’ve listened to some of the episodes in
this series already.
Thank you for
listening to this episode of Physical Attraction. My guests were
Justin Ball and Jason Parisi. If you’d like to find out more,
please do get their book – The Future of Fusion Energy – which is a
highly entertaining and informative read. They also both have
websites in the same format – Justin-ball.com and Jason-Parisi.com
– and they can both be found on Twitter if you’re into that sort of
thing.
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