"The NASEM report proposes a design by 2028 and a fusion pilot plant in the 2035-2040 timeline."
ruh roh, too late, according to the prediction
while recent headlines make this seem truer than ever, will there really be no hope from the massive incentives showing up now TO do something? could there be a manhattan project like event that invents our way out of this?
The things that would have to be done would be so deep-cutting into what humanity does now that I have very little hope that they will be implemented. Especially considering our (humanity's) failure to get much easier things right (like ensuring basic human rights).
I hope I am wrong.
Convenience will be the death of us. Anything marginally worse than what we currently have cannot be an option. And so we die.