My gripe with this article is that it only talks about the NIF - and the NIF is not called the National Ignition Facility for nothing! Its purpose is studying f

My gripe with this article is that it only talks about the NIF - and the NIF is not called the National Ignition Facility for nothing! Its purpose is studying fusion (mostly for weapons research), not producing a viable commercial fusion power plant. The technology it uses to generate fusion is not scalable, and that's obvious to everyone who cares to look into it a bit deeper. Now, there are some other fusion startups with interesting claims about their technology (not to mention ITER) - I'm not enough of an expert to judge these, but I'm pretty sure any of these approaches is much more likely to eventually lead to a viable fusion power plant than what the NIF is doing.