Reply #6: It's quite real and several different modalities have worked small scale

[Warpy]

The problem with fusion is always the up front energy costs of getting an industrial sized plant up and running. That's what's kept it from being commercially viable all these years.

If fossil fuel costs spike again, then fusion plants will likely go back onto the drawing board, along with all sorts of other energy harvesting plans.

If the government provides the seed money, this will also help alternative energy including fusion to be built.

The long term objective should be to get off fossil fuels, especially those being produced abroad. When we add the cost of the military necessary to keep those fuels available to us, the cost has become prohibitive, much higher than the cost of building a prototype fusion plant a year.

What needs to be done is a campaign to educate the public about this in order to justify the funds necessary for the switchover.