If fusion finally works: how fast it would change everything, and why it keeps slipping

Expert predictions for fusion energy have dropped from twenty-eight years to under eighteen years.

Commercial fusion requires firing lasers ten times per second instead of three times per day.

The National Ignition Facility used three hundred megajoules of grid power to produce three megajoules.

Helion is developing direct energy conversion to capture electricity without using traditional steam turbines.

Fusion plants must breed their own tritium fuel using lithium blankets to remain self-sustaining.

Microsoft signed a fifty megawatt power purchase agreement with Helion for the year twenty twenty-nine.