The Holy Grail Of Energy Is Within Reach

For years and years, the old joke that “nuclear fusion is always 30 years away” held strong. No matter what “breakthroughs” scientists announced, the progress toward achieving commercial nuclear fusion was so painstakingly incremental and piecemeal it seemed that ever actually achieving ignition was a pipe dream more rooted in science fiction and thought experiments than the scientific method.

But over the last year, the science of nuclear fusion has been advancing at a spectacular pace, and the reported breakthroughs are…