Arthur Turrell on Star Builders

Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

According to Arthur Turrell the most important energy-making process in the universe takes place inside stars. The ability to duplicate that process in a lab, once thought impossible, may now be closer than we think. In The Star Builders, award-winning young plasma physicist Arthur Turrell examines how teams of scientists around the world are being assembled by the boldest entrepreneurs, big business, and governments to solve what is the most difficult technological challenge humanity has ever faced: building the equivalent of a star on earth. If their plans to capture star power are successful, they will unlock thousands, potentially millions, of years of clean, carbon-free energy. Join us when Turrell expounds on star machines with ten times as many parts as the NASA Space Shuttle, and structures that extend over 400 acres on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.