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Nuclear fusion? I can see this thing in 20 years http://news.mit.edu/2015/small-modular-efficient-fusion-plan...

Nuclear fusion energy is always 40 years before beeing production ready, at least since the 1950s.

lol

There have been some advances with REBCO magnets that may change that though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4 has info.

Nuclear fusion is mostly some amount of investment away. It's never been funded at the levels that predict "30 years away". In fact, funding has been continuously reduced: http://imgur.com/sjH5r

Fusion is not ahead of it's time... The future of energy has to be simple scalable and safe, fusion at terrestrial scales is extremely complex and very limited in fuel source, even if sustainable fusion is cracked that will always be true just like fission, it just has different complexities and different fuels.

> very limited in fuel source

You mean deuterium? Because plain hydrogen is quite easy to obtain.

> fusion at terrestrial scales is extremely complex

Lockheed Martin is allegedly working on a fusion reactor about the size of a truck payload: http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/compact-fusion.htm... - But of course, I cannot judge from such a webpage whether that is real in any way.

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