Inside the Burnaby, B.C., lab that's forging the future of energy
It powers the sun and for decades scientists have dreamed it would one day power the world.
The problem, is fusion energy is exceedingly difficult to harness — and Canada, which ended its national fusion research program amid government cutbacks in the 1990s, has lagged other countries in investment.
A 35-nation collaboration that includes major Canadian trading partners, meanwhile, has pushed forward and is now on its way to investing more than $25 billion to build the ITER Tokamak, a magnetic fusion device, in France with the goal of proving that fusion is a viable energy source.
But the race to fusion power isn’t over yet and Canada’s poor showing may be shifting.
https://www.thestar.com/vancouver/2018/12/17/inside-the-burnaby-bc-lab-thats-forging-the-future-of-energy.html
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I would really love to see this work. It's a long shot, but maybe new ideas have to be tried. I can't see the ITER being anything more that a grandly expensive science experiment that just seems to be repeating efforts that have been tried before.