I saw a lot of cautions about being cautious on this, and they were right.
It also emerged that US scientists had achieved "net energy gain in a fusion reaction" for the second time, the Financial Times reported. This adds significant heft to the case made by nuclear-energy advocates who say nuclear is nothing to be scared of and a good source of green energy.
As obnoxious as I find the anti-nuclear crowd, this is a terrible argument. First, the advance was not going to even potentially translate into a workable, commercial system for a long time to come. Second, this was an advance towards use of nuclear fusion for power generation. What the anti-nuclear crowd gets upset about is nuclear fission for power generation.
People engage with what the media feeds them. If the media isn't able to portray how important and interesting scientific developments are, or they don't bother trying, people won't be aware, won't understand, won't care.
I find it amusing that the article is talking about being on the brink of break thoughts and then talks about a conference from 10 years ago, that was not hosting scientists but business men.
The again, the article is from business insider...
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