Future is fusion? The quest to build a star on Earth – Times of India
The quest for fusion energy - the clean, potentially limitless source that could end mankind's power woes - is at least a century old. Now, a handful of startups say we are closer than ever to making it happen. In the next few years, these companies say, their fusion machines will produce more energy than they take to run. Soon after, they will start generating electricity for factories, data centers, steel mills and more. Big-name investors, including Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Vinod Khosla and Sam Altman, have staked hundreds of millions of dollars on this. Yet, closer than ever does not necessarily mean close. Fusion's history is a graveyard of missed deadlines and thwarted milestones. The sunny view is startups moving more quickly than govt labs ever could.Creating a working star on Earth...