Democratic Primaries

here's what MIT was up to as of last year...

http://news.mit.edu/2019/progress-practical-fusion-energy-0124

Only three large countries have successfully shifted their economies away from fossil fuels, he said: Sweden, Belgium, and France. And all of those did so largely on the strength of hydropower and nuclear power — and did so in only about 15 years. “We’re going to have to do whatever works,” he said, and while conventional fission-based nuclear power may be essential in the near term, in the longer term fusion power could be key to weaning the world from fossil fuels.

Andrew Lo, the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor of Economics at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, said that for large projects such as the development of practical fusion power plants, new kinds of funding mechanisms may be needed, as conventional venture capitalists and other traditional sources may not be sufficient to meet their costs. “We need to get the narrative right,” he said, to make it clear to people that investments will be needed to meet the challenge. “We need to make fusion real,” which means something on the order of a billion dollars of investment in various potential approaches, to maximize odds of success, Lo said.

Only a billion bucks sounds like a bigtime lowball to me but this is the kinda thing I was talking about...that's chump change seed money compared to what renewables would cost us to replace fossil fuels. I'd be shocked if they had anything online in 15 years like that link I posted in a previous post said but you gotta start somewhere and I'm glad that somebody is at least working on it a little even though it's likely a half-assed effort needing considerably more funding than what they have.

Here's a brief and somewhat pessimistic history of fusion research in this country over the last half-century or so...

Experts Testify Before Congress on Future of U.S. Fusion Energy Research and ITER

https://news.newenergytimes.net/2018/03/28/experts-testify-before-congress-on-future-of-u-s-fusion-energy-research/

Like I said, it ain't gonna be easy but this is what the world of the future will be using without a doubt in my mind. Whether it's in 50 years or 500 is TBD.