Via David R Baker and Will Wade in bloomberg.com: “Some of the world’s richest investors have piled into startups targeting one of the biggest and toughest challenges in science: nuclear fusion. Long seen as the ultimate prize in the quest for clean and abundant energy, fusion is the process that fuels the sun, where a crushing gravitational force smashes atoms together and unleashes their energy. In late 2022, researchers celebrated a long-sought scientific milestone, a sign of progress in a field full of vexing technological challenges and skepticism about near-term prospects.”
