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  • Fusion is not like the movies where you make a tiny star that just generates free excess power forever after.

    It requires fuel. It’s repeated tiny explosions which get harnessed to usually heat water and run a turbine. That fuel needs to be created and transported.

    There’s like a dozen companies building out fusion reactors right now in the US, some claiming they’ll be operational as soon as 2028. THEY want to be the ones selling that energy. Capitalism isn’t stopping that desire to capture a market even if it threatens another market