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Letter: Reasons to doubt a fusion-powered world (2)

Published 8 July 2020

From Alexander Cannara,Menlo Park, California, US

With two advanced degrees in plasma physics, I wouldn’t advise anyone to follow Abigail Beall’s optimism on when fusion power will be a reality, with or without the help of artificial intelligence.

The Stanford plasma physics group I was involved with may have a 100th anniversary in 2061. Bets on its food and drinks being prepared via fusion electricity?

Issue no. 3290 published 11 July 2020

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