Is Fusion Really Close To Reality? Yes, Thanks To Machine Learning

Fusion is energy's boy who cried wolf. Fusion is energy's boy who cried wolf. It's been just around the corner for so long that people can't believe it's just around the corner now. "As a physicist, we always joke that fusion has been 50 years away for 50 years," said Daniel Kammen, a professor of energy at the University of California, Berkeley. "But in the last four or five years, with the effort that's going on here, the effort that's going on with Commonwealth Fusion in Massachusetts, you're suddenly seeing that old idea--that fusion is great but infinitely far away--has gone away."