{"product_id":"the-stockholder-9781951530761","title":"The Stockholder","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): William Walling\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Strategic Book Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Thrillers - Technological\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA more immediate threat than climate change, the mid-21st-century energy dilemma inspires reclusive trillionaire Lyman Dysart ⎯ called \"The Stockholder\" by his privately owned company employees ⎯ to finance research and development of the ultimate energy solution: controlled nuclear fusion power generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlasma constituents of the patented \"Omega Pinch\" process are deuterium, which is plentiful, and the ultra-scarce, fusible helium isotope, found mainly on the moon. The isotope necessitates expensive strip-mining on the lunar surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePanic ensues in the minds and wallets of the OPEC\/conventional energy cartel led by Vonex Chairman Belkin Reichert, who brandishes behind-the-scenes political influence to suborn fusion's advent by promoting solar energy, and eventually nationalization of the newborn industry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe battle of wills climaxes when Dysart attempts to defeat nationalization by holding hostage his lunar mining venture and its crucial product.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis nuclear fusion propaganda campaign captures the public imagination by describing the innovative system as: \"a plasma containment shell surrounded by huge cables, monstrous electromagnets and sophisticated ancillary equipment, at its heart a dervish of semi-vacuum burning so furiously that it emulates temperatures reigning at the center of the sun, yet gives forth no light, but presumes to light the world in a beneficent, utopian glow.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/strong\u003eA retired aerospace engineer at Lockheed, William Walling enjoyed a second career as a technical writer in Silicon Valley. He also published many works of science and historical fiction, and at age 94 was putting the finishing touches on \u003cem\u003eThe Stockholder\u003c\/em\u003e when he passed away in January 2021. This final book is being published posthumously.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Strategic Book Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45413893374103,"sku":"9781951530761","price":2779.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781951530761.webp?v=1767919578","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-stockholder-9781951530761","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}