Posted by: Gerry Purcell

Campaign: Which radical ideas for new energy sources deserve investigation?

From a long-term point of view, we\'d still need to plan for our energy future. Fossil fuels, which make up by far the majority of world-wide power today, are an abundant but fundamentally limited resource. Renewable sources like wind, solar, and hydroelectric power have different limitations: they\'re inconsistent. There is a long-term solution, though, that overcomes all of these problems: nuclear fusion (from Forbes 2017)