The Stockholder

A 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.

Plasma 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 necessitat...