Startup Breakthroughs Accelerate the Fusion Energy Race

For decades, the joke was that nuclear fusion would always be 30 years away. Harnessing the process that powers our sun here on Earth was a lofty thought experiment ripped from the pages of a science fiction novel that smacked of futurism rather than pragmatism. But in the last few years, the rate of technological breakthroughs has sped up astronomically, finally making commercial fusion a matter of when, not if.  Achieving fusion here on Earth requires staggering levels of heat – in the region of 100 million degrees Celsius –…