Fire from Ice: Searching for the Truth Behind the Cold Fusion Furor (Wiley Science Editions) - Hardcover

Mallove, Eugene J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471531391 ISBN 13: 9780471531395

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1991

Synopsis

Discusses the furor over the announcement that scientists had succeeded in producing controlled nuclear fusion at ordinary temperatures, describes the further research that has been done, and argues that cold fusion may still eventually be perfected

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Reviews

Mallove, a professional science writer, tells the history of recent cold fusion research from the dramatic Pons-Fleischmann announcement in March 1989 until approximately the fall of 1990. All the major twists and turns of the story are related with a modest amount of technical detail; it should be quite intelligible to laypeople. Mallove covers much the same ground at about the same level as Frank Close does in Too Hot To Handle ( LJ 5/15/91). However, there is a dramatic difference--Mallove is a firm believer in the cold fusion phenomenon; he is thus at the opposite end of the spectrum from Close. At the moment, the scientific consensus appears to be with the skeptics, but Mallove's book is nevertheless recommended for all libraries that have Close's. In tandem, the two volumes will give readers an interesting view of a continuing scientific controversy.
- Jack W. Weigel, Univ. of Michigan Lib., Ann Arbor
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471531391
• ISBN 13: 9780471531395
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352