Why is fusion always “30 years away?”

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It seems that for the last couple decades fusion is always 30 years away and by this point we’ve well passed the initial 30 and seemingly little progress has been made.

Is it just that it’s so difficult to make efficient?

Has the technology improved substantially and we just don’t hear about it often?

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Because media likes to greatly misinterpret what scientists say. And that’s ignoring the engineering needed to convert the science project into a real application.

You can see a faster version play out in autonomous vehicles. Musk went marketing and got a ton of stock value out of it so everyone assumed it’s done. Almost 10 years later and we realize that not only it’s not done we don’t know when it will be.

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