Fusion Energy
 

Major advancement in Fusion energy...If you can believe any of this.....

China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak smashes fusion confinement record – Physics World

If anyone's going to succeed it will be the Chinese. They think differently, whereas we just seem to pour more and more money into the same methodology, with only minor incremental improvements over the decades.

The one in France ($28bn) has recently overtaken China, but I suspect that will be short-lived.

When it comes EV's will quickly be obsolete

With fusion power you can synthesize unlimited hydrocarbons at near zero energy costs. The feed stock for making gasoline/diesel/Jet-A is just ocean water. Cracking CH is quite expensive still...The Pearl GTL Plant in Qatar was costly. Imagine creating clean diesel for 20 cents a gallon from H2O and CO2.

No matter what the solution is to endless energy there are countries investing billion. The independence a country would have, not having to rely on other countries for their energy supply would be huge. This does give countries like China an advantage over the U.S., since their motivation relies on where the government wants their country to be in the future. While the U.S. in most cases motivation is profit based.

I do not see how you have come to that conclusion. There are number of reasons that would lead me to believe just the opposite. The main issue is the availability of charging stations and battery capability. I own an Ionic 6, when fully charged I get over 300 miles and car companies are investing to improve that distance. As far as charging stations the investment in putting up a charging station is much less than putting a gas station in place and they can be put almost anywhere. Besides finding charging stations at some gas stations, I have found them at most Walmart, Costco, and you can charge at home while you're sleeping. The main goal is to find a profit motivation, if states see a profit in it, you will find charging station at every rest stop on every highway in America.

When you can strip hydrogen from water to burn why would you want a car with, essentially, an extension cord? My question is why are we not creating and burning hydrogen in situ now? We have the means.

I've been waiting for this technology for a long time. I thought it'd be mainstream by 2000, but still waiting and optimistic!...

Exactly, you know how the U.S functions. Greed and money

Profit, yes. But also lobbyists and tree huggers. China does not tolerate either.

Also check out Commonwealth Fusion Systems in the Boston area.

Fusion power is in the future
 

The old mantra about useable fusion is, “Fusion power is ten years in the future, and always will be.”

They also said in the 21st century we would be driving flying cars... well it's the 21st century and we're still on the ground...

Fusion produces no net energy.
 

The fusion reactor ran for about 18 minutes versus the old record of about 7 seconds. The advance was achieved by doubling the input power. Fusion reactors require vastly more power input than output. Fission reactors run for years with no input power and produce no “greenhouse gas.”

While fusion energy production is a lovely idea and will be pursued, fission is now. The main obstacles to fission power are irrational fear and litigation.