I chose this book because it’s written by a physicist, very elderly now, who has spent all his life working in controlled fusion. The title is a take on Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth . The first part of the book is Chen claiming that fusion is indispensable for our future, and why. He has a very readable section on climate change, a section on fossil fueled energy and a section on renewables—in which I disagree with him strongly, because he denigrates solar energy—and then goes on to say that we need fusion.
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Benjamin F. Wissler Professor of Physics at Middlebury College
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American physicist at Middlebury College, where he also teaches in the Environmental Studies Program, and author of Nuclear Choices and Simply Einstein.
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