Fusion power and climate change

A deal has been agreed at the climate change conference in Copenhagen following extraordinary last minute discussions.

However, it falls well short of what could have been achieved, with no legal enforcement, and is frighteningly vague on important issues.

One important technology designed to address climate change, fusion power, needs to have a serious injection of funding.

Work has just started on building the world’s biggest fusion reactor in France

However the pace of work needs to accelerate on this racing certainty so that commercial fusion generation can go online as soon as possible.

Categories: Politics, Science

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