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Nuclear Fusion Power
Patented: History of Inventions
Using the Pinch Effect to Fuse Particles
In the 1940s, people started thinking about what kind of conditions or machines would you need to actually do this in a way that got round this particle smashing problem. So there was a guy who was a member of the Nazi party just before the Second World War called Max Steembeck,. And he knew about this thing called the pinch effect. Could you use that same kind of pinching effect to create particles that are hot enough and dense enough for these fusion reactions to happen? They built some prototypes in the basement of Imperial College London before it all got classified. There were all kinds of reasons why they didn't. But now we know how to make nuclear power by fusing water with other
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