Cultural Analysis of "Is nuclear fusion the best way to support rising energy demands?"

         The text I chose to analyze is titled, "Is nuclear fusion the best way to support rising energy demands?". Fusion reactions and renewables are two cultural keywords that pop up a lot in the article above. The thesis of the document is to explain the brand new international science experiment funded by China, India, the U.S. and other countries in the hope of making a sustainable nuclear fusion plant and to show the reader why nuclear fusion is so important for humanity's insatiable need for energy. The use of the key word renewables is important for the argument the article is making because renewables refers to renewable energy which is forcing a change in the economy. With the concern over the changing climate, consumers are demanding their power to come from clean sources. Governments have also responded by passing legislation that forces industry to conform to new, energy saving and clean ways of doing business. Renewables also allows other key word, fusion reactions, to become the focus of the article. The thesis is built around clean energy providing the power to drive the economy and that clean energy coming from a nuclear fusion reactor. Nuclear fusions is the type of power the article is advocating to be used as a clean way to produce energy. These two key words provide an idea for the reader to latch on to and agree or disagree with what the author has to say about these two ideas.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "Preamplifier at the National Ignition Facility" 08/02/2012 via wikimedia.org Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License