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Nuclear Fusion

In Our Time: Science

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The Perfect Way to Make Energy

Fusion is the perfect way to make energy except one thing, it's really hard to do. We're running out of good ways to make energy and fusion can do that for us. It isn't a matter of what we dig up, it's a Matter of What Do We Know? JET has created plasmas with 200 million degrees in them which are just the conditions for fusion. But now we have to do it at a scale where we produce more energy than we consume and also at a cost the consumer wants to pay.We've got to finish the job. We have to have fusion energy.

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