[muawiyah]

In 1953 I was told hot fusion power was but 25 years away. In 2012 I was told that it is now 30 years away.

That's after the world has poured hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars down a rathole.

[FredZarguna]

Edward Teller -- one of the two (maybe three) men on Earth to have originally designed a self-sustaining (uncontrolled) fusion reaction -- was visiting CalTech for a seminar in 1982. At the Q & A he was asked about his prognosis for controlled fusion. He looked around the room and said, "it may happen within the lifetimes of a few young men in this room." I was a twenty-six year-old grad student in that room. I hope I live to see it. I'm skeptical.