The only people who are more "trust us, it's just around the corner" than fusion folks are the renewables only folks and their hair brained schemes to avoid the

The only people who are more "trust us, it's just around the corner" than fusion folks are the renewables only folks and their hair brained schemes to avoid the base load question. Complicating the grid with smarts, given how well that's gone with IoT? We've thrown a low carbon option under the bus because of sloppy Soviet engineering. The coal and gas we are stuck with due to "greens" no nuclear stance has caused more harm to humanity than our sum total nuclear incidents, even counting non power incidents such as orphaned radiotherapy sources or ignoring procedures at irradiation facilities.