@mattotcha That's nice and all, but unless they have a sudden breakthrough and generate *a lot* more power than the plasma consumes it will still be unfathomably more expensive than renewables. "First commercial fusion power plant" sounds misleading to me.

@mattotcha I’m a fan of fusion in principle, but a) it’s pretty clearly implied that the company hasn’t reached any sort of breakeven in their reaction yet, b) I’m really dubious that any sort of steady-state fusion will prove viable (as opposed to pulsed systems), c) this is still just providing heat to boil water, so a full system to generate commercial power still has a lot of the complexity of fossil fuel plants.

@mattotcha It's fusion power. I expect construction will be about twenty years away from completion for at least the next century.