Financial Times: US scientists boost clean power hopes with fusion energy breakthrough

[hunter]

9. Nearly everyone is doing the later, so it's no "straw man."

Everywhere you go deluded people truly believe wind, solar, batteries, fusion power, and batteries are going to magically displace fossil fuels, in spite of solid evidence to the contrary.

It's just another flavor of climate change denial.

Meanwhile the fossil fuel industry is thriving.

These false hopes will destroy the natural environment as we know it and our civilization as well.

The thermodynamics of fusion are extremely complex. We simply don't know if commercial fusion power plants are possible or not.

It seems unlikely to me that it is, especially when you consider how rapidly the technologies of flight, electronics, rocketry, molecular genetics, and fission power progressed once the basic principles were established.

Mark Oliphant first demonstrated fusion reactions ninety years ago. In comparison to the other technologies mentioned above progress in fusion power has been excruciatingly slow. It's possible the physical reality of this universe is stacked against us. Our beliefs, our hard work, and our money won't change that.