This is a very good summary of the explored technologies through the years. Thank you for posting.

I've had a passing interest in this for a few decades. I now see fusion research as a global scam/fraud, on the same order as climate change/green technologies (wind, solar, etc.), and more recently, covid research. While fusion research has some theoretical benefit in the name of science, all of these research topics require massive injections of capital in the form of grants. These researchers manage the grant monies by tailoring what their findings and publications report, to continue the gravy train. For example, climate "researchers" fraudulently manipulate data to conform to a narrative, such that they can continue to collect "global warming" grants and get published. It wasn't lost on me in this documentary that "climate change" and "carbon neutral" were mentioned more than once.

As this documentary also points out, none of the current designs are anywhere close to being commercially viable. All one has to do is look at the infrastructure and designs to understand the incalculable billions and billions of dollars spent on these experiments. The current goal for a fusion reaction is 400 seconds, but even that ridiculous number is years away. No one has yet achieved a reaction that is even close to matching the energy input.

I'll tell you why fusion is flawed. First of all, it is based upon commercially-exploitable electrical generation, similar to coal, gas, and fission technologies that have preceded it. This is not where the future of energy lies. You still have to transmit electricity over a vulnerable and delicate energy grid...a weak link in the chain. The future of energy is in smaller, portable generators that can individually power a home or commercial installation, or vehicles/spacecraft. A fusion installation as shown is based upon an outdated model -- a giant monstrosity that sits on a multi-acre plot of ground. They are built to try to contain a reaction that will destroy any element known to man by a million degrees. The magnetic suspension helps keep the heat away from the collectors, but the reactors will require periodic rebuilding and commensurate down-time.

Secondly, at its core, all fusion strives to do is power a "heat engine" to generate electricity. The containment device heats up, and transfers the heat energy to steam turbines. Really? All that technology just to create steam? There is a method to directly convert plasma ions to electricity, but it is only about 50% efficient. With a technology that struggles to even match the energy input, let alone exceed it, it can't afford the losses of a 50% conversion efficiency.

Unfortunately, fusion is yet another method to siphon wealth from Western nations, into something that will never provide an adequate return. We can do better. The acres and acres of rotting EVs that no one will ever own or drive is proof that the global cabal driving these investments must be eliminated.

Still very experimental technology.

Germany plans to build a new fully working fusion reactor, based on the technology, by 2040 (15-years from now).

So far, in laboratory testing, Germany has been able to produce 1.3 gigajoules of energy in a discharge lasting 480 seconds (8-minutes). Within a few years, their goal is to achieve 18 gigajoules of energy in a 30-minute discharge.

That's still a very long way from continuous 24/7 operation. Good technology, but it will be at least 2 decades before it can provide significant power to replace current energy sources.

Yet another infomercial promising access to "clean, unlimited energy for the future". This drivel has been spinned ad nauseum for at least 30 years, taunting "breakthrough" revolutionary developments that heralds the coming golden age of fusion energy " just a few years away".

So we can finally say goodbye to those solar death ray power generators, bird killing wind turbines, land hogging solar panels, etc, etc all made mostly for money laundering purposes at best in the name of fuckin "green energy".

I believe fusion may have actually been created ( or re-created after being originally discovered in an underground bunker complex in Jonaastal) by Dr Hans Richter on Huemal Island in Argentina in the 1950s. some very fishy circumstances around the "discrediting" of his work, and the US Govt seemed very interested despite his being a "charlatan".

All is from some man/woman starting a fire, hundreds of thousands years back, Hmmmm, who’d guess, princess get me a 🍺

2045? Hahahaha.

Cold fusion has already been proven to occur in nano-ruptured paladium. The hydroton theory is fascinating and worth looking into, but this "hot fusion" stuff seems just as much a scam as the green energy movement. Edmund Storms has several presentations on the subject, and the field of research has been underway for decades

People on youtube are also already doing boron-hydrogen fusion in the garages, completely open source.

If we let these mega corporations run these power projects, they'll just keep edging them years and years into the future. There are real and ground-level achievable approaches that we don't even think about, or are disconnected from the mainstream attention. Remember the thorium reactors that were all the hype a few years back? Where's the development there? Stonewalled by regulation? Lack of investor interest because of misunderstanding the tech?