If so, there was no need to conjecture the occurrence of a novel phenomenon of electrochemically induced nuclear fusion.
However, heat generation on its own is not considered evidence sufficient to demonstrate that nuclear fusion has occurred.
Thus, this book is about an old dream on how to achieve unlimited, safe, clean, and low-cost energy by laser- or beamdriven inertial nuclear fusion.
It is required that intense laser beams be propagated through long-scale underdense plasmas to achieve successful controlled nuclear fusion.
Early in the nuclear fusion program, it was realized that modest currents are required to confine plasma that could produce energy gain.
For instance, it was sparked by the reported achievement of controlled nuclear fusion.
This would consequently release the equal and opposite repulsions which previously prevented the nuclear fusion of the atoms.
Qualitatively, these observations would have tended to support the suggestion that nuclear fusion had occurred.
