The big idea: will fusion power save us from the climate crisis?

Illustration: Elia Barbieri / The Guardian. Article by Philip Ball. The Guardian – April 3, 2023.

One look at your energy bills this winter might have convinced you that the 1950s idea that electricity would, in the near future, become “ too cheap to meter ” was not so much a false promise as a sick joke. That over-excited claim was prompted by hopes that nuclear fusion – the process triggered in an uncontrolled manner in hydrogen bombs – would soon be harnessed for […]

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