Fusion is great and important and if society can afford it they should continue to fund it. However, if the goal is slowing damage to the environment in the ne

Fusion is great and important and if society can afford it they should continue to fund it. However, if the goal is slowing damage to the environment in the next 80 years then fusion shouldn’t be seriously considered. Fusion is the answer to what humanity does to make large amounts of electrical power not from fossil fuels when renewables stop scaling for baseline loads. Humanity will benefit from it, but the window for it to be the technology to keep the planet habitable has passed.