Anybody can be deluded. On the surface, this article is about just how close we are to achieving power-producing nuclear fusion. If you've been reading about this stuff for a while (in my case, since the '70s), you can't help but notice a pattern: for over 40 years now, fusion power is always just around the corner. It's the unicorn-under-the-rainbow of big science: untold billions of dollars after we started, we aren't perceptibly closer to actually achieving something useful.
Personally, I wish they were shoveling this sort of brainpower and money at something that I'll speculate is far more achievable: storage of electrical energy. This is the solution to the “battery problem” I've posted about many times before...
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