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Richard Wolfson

Benjamin F. Wissler Professor of Physics at Middlebury College

United States

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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Question Whom do you read even though you disagree with them? Attention & the world read 25 other answers →
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.

Recorded Sophie Roell, Five Books interview, published transcript, 24 May 2021 source ↗

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