Fusion will change everything if we can actually make it work for our general power generation needs. Unfortunately, it's one of those technologies that is alwa

Fusion will change everything if we can actually make it work for our general power generation needs. Unfortunately, it's one of those technologies that is always going to arrive "soon". I fully support investment in fusion research (and pure-research in general), but the reality is we can't wait for technologies that are still technically vaporware. Solar and wind are in the same situation. I expect we will be able to make much more efficient solar generation technologies and find a way to store power at the TWh scale. When we have reached those goals, we can re-evaluate, but right now waiting means choosing to use more coal/oil/gas. > ... solar ... reducing demand for coal/oil/gas ... Unfortunately, that's not always the case when solar ends up using a "natural gas backup" to solve the reliability problem.