Francesco Sciortino, co-founder and CEO of German startup Proxima Fusion, believes fusion energy can complement wind and solar power and become a “decisive building block” for Europe’s energy security.
“Fusion holds the potential to fundamentally transform the way we think about energy, changing the world from a place that’s controlled by those with reserves of oil and gas, to one where technology lets countries control their own fate,” he told TNW.
Isn’t that exactly the kind of “when old men plant trees under whose shade they know they’ll never sit” that you were advocating for?
Yes?
I’m not saying don’t do it. I’m saying that ITER isn’t going to make this a near-term thing.