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I think the quest for more energy output than input can be likened to alchemists attempts to turn lead into gold. Hence usage of the term.



Huh.

I thought it was because fusion changed one element to another ... Hydrogen to Helium, for example

I know my favorite physic professor used to call Rutherford the first "real alchemist" for converting nitrogen to oxygen with radium as his "philosopher's stone".
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