There’s an old bit of doggerel about a man who is approaching a goal; each step he takes reduces the distance between himself and his goal by one-half. So if he starts 10 feet away, one step puts him at five feet, then two-and-a-half… The upshot, of course, is that he can never cut the distance to zero. He can never achieve his goal.
That’s a lot like what the attempts at practical, grid-scale fusion reactors have been like. We seem to always be getting closer and closer, but somehow can never reach the goal. Oh, yes, a man’s reach should exceed his grasp – but fusion power researchers have been reaching for quite a while now.
But in Virginia, one company is making plans to build the first production-scale fusion power plant.
The world’s largest private fusion company has announced that it has chosen Chesterfield, Virginia, as the site of the world’s…
