You are are right about that. Of course you could look at the question laterally - solar energy comes from fusion, so if we could master fusion, we would cut ou

You are are right about that. Of course you could look at the question laterally - solar energy comes from fusion, so if we could master fusion, we would cut out the middle man. ITER is trying hard, but I can't help feeling that if we had a modern day Manhattan/Apollo type project for fusion energy we could make faster progress.