The price of energy has always been approaching zero. Restated, the amount of energy available to an individual has generally grown exponentially, with pauses here and there because civilization. We might be resuming that growth in the next few decades.

Fusion isn’t and won’t be solved in the immediate future. There is a long path towards commercial viability and a lot of milestones along the way… and not really a great method of associating them in a popular science sort of way that doesn’t seem like “we’ve solved fusion!”

Real significant progress is indeed being made and is expected to continue, people are going to be excited then disappointed by milestones being announced because we’re closer but not there.

Fusion isn’t just always thirty years down the road though, we can see the destination getting closer.