mslathrop

I'm curious as to whether or not this kind of thing will spring up more and more in other apps.

Yes I won't disagree that the technology is getting better and that we are getting closer to achieving it. But a commercial fusion reactor in ten years seems very unrealistic with the current regulation and standards set by current government regulatory bodies.

When I was in school studying nuclear engineering, the running joke was that fusion will always be N amount of years away from happening. It seems like every year or so a new company or group of researchers has found a breakthrough that will allow fusion to happen in N amount of years even though we have yet to reach breakeven in a research setting.

Nuclear fusion is always only 10 years away from working.