Unlike many futuristic topics... Fusion has been demonstrated to work, just inefficiently. You put in a dollar worth of energy to create 5 cents worth of energy (not an actual ratio). If we can make existing Fusion tech 100x more efficient, then we could largely solve the energy crisis. So there is an engineering path forward that is compatible with real-world physics.
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Unlike many futuristic topics... Fusion has been demonstrated to work, just inefficiently. You put in a dollar worth of energy to create 5 cents worth of energy (not an actual ratio). If we can make existing Fusion tech 100x more efficient, then we could largely solve the energy crisis. So there is an engineering path forward that is compatible with real-world physics.