Will We Ever Get Fusion Power?

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3. "It's the energy source of the future, and always will be." I've been hearing that for a long time.

Sure would like to see it disproven, but I don't see how.

We know that gravitational confinement of the fusion process works quite well; there are literally numberless examples of it. AFAIK there are no example of other means of confinement.

Fission, in contrast, once occurred naturally in some uranium ore deposits in Earth's crust. That gives some idea of the huge difference in feasibility of the two processes.

Thermodynamically, fusion looks great. Kinetically, it's a whole different issue.

All of that is not to say that people should stop investigating it.