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Today I shall speculate about the future and the role that fusion energy can play in that future. The first part of my talk will illustrate the importance that energy has played throughout man’s history and some of the interrelationships that exist among man, energy, and the environment. Then I will project into the future, describe fusion energy, and the chemist’s and chemical engineer’s part in the future of fusion. Figure 1 shows the history of man and energy. To put this history into perspective the last ten billion years is expanded into the last hundred million, and then into the last million, and then into the last ten thousand and finally into the last one hundred.
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Gough, W.C. (1972). Fusion Energy and the Future. In: Gruen, D.M. (eds) The Chemistry of Fusion Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4595-4_1
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