Well of course this will not be enough to save the planet - the planet is already screwed, and there is no longer anything anyone can do to change that. Fusion

Well of course this will not be enough to save the planet - the planet is already screwed, and there is no longer anything anyone can do to change that. Fusion may be one component of a long-term strategy for the maintenance of a high-technology, high-population, high-energy-consumption industrial society, and this announcement makes that possibility ever so slightly more likely... but that's still a very long way off.