LOL, so true. I have seen a lot of these. But then again, it isn’t as if they haven’t been saying “Fusion will be here in 20 years...!” for the last fifty years, and every single day during that time interval. I don’t blame people for being cynical.
I believe it is something we should spend money pursuing. But then I also believe we should spend money on all manner of fission reactors, pebble bed reactors, Thorium reactors, you name it.
I think wind and solar might have a place too, if they can ever conquer the storage issue. And even eventually, Electric Vehicles.
But it is insanity to mandate those things like wind, solar, and Electric Vehicles before there is any movement on the unanswered questions.
Leftists just believe “If you build it they will come”. That’s great for imaginary baseball fields, not so good for the basic infrastructure of industrial societies.
In this case, I don't think it is a Left versus Right issue, as the Left will probably be opposed to it.
The key difference is that this reactor IS going online. They've defined its purpose and technology. It's not a theoretic paper but real concrete and steel. The Japanese have/are spent/spending billions of Yen on it now. Will it work?
We'll see, but it is not that same talk; now we're getting something...