Nuclear New York Energy Week: Fusion Energy Sooner and Cheaper? By Andrew Holland on June 18, 2015 at 2:00 PM A worker welds a part on the exterior of the Wendelstein 7-X experimental fusion reactor at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics on October 29, 2013 in Greifswald, Germany. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) What would it mean to have an essentially limitless amount of energy? If we can harness fusion power, we can have energy that is clean, safe, sustainable, and secure. It will be the power of a sun on earth. The dream of fusion energy...