Drives me crazy that people are still pining away for some magic blue-light arc-reacor sci-fi energy source to save us when solar and wind are out there doing it, as we speak.

"If only we could generate energy cheaper than any fossil fuel, but free of carbon emissions!"

Uh.

Sounds a lot like carbon capture: "if only we had a futuristic device that could pull C02 right out of the air and sequester it in solid form, maybe even turn it into something useful like a building material" friend that's a tree @drvolts