Aug. 13, 2012
Source: The New York Times
Martin Fleischmann made the greatest discovery since fire: replicating the furnace of the sun at room temperature in a jar of water, essentially solving the world’s energy needs forever.
That is how Dr. Fleischmann might have liked his obituary to read. On March 23, 1989, when he and a colleague announced that they had achieved nuclear fusion in their laboratory, it even seemed possible. News reports heralded the scientists’ “star in a jar.” Continue reading »