Wonder when the first company that was targeting fusion was started.
It seems there weren't any until the 2000s sometime. Now there are lots. People with the money to sink 10s of millions into the idea think that it's close.
Danny Hillis will bet you that someone will do this by 2020:
They have lots of skin in the game.
Thanks heaps for that. I had no idea.
What do you think of the new wave of fusion companies? Do you think they will get somewhere?
There is a subreddit for fusion. reddit/r/fusion.
Would you be interested in answering questions, doing a sort of AMA there?
Tri-Alpha was, as far as I can tell, the most legitimate of the fusion companies. My pal Dave just retired from it; he worked on their data efforts. FWIIW my original comment was quoting him.