Maybe it needs to be explained to him and the rest of Americans.
About fusion — this is our future and the technology seems to be suffering right now. I don’t have hope that fusion generated power will be available anytime soon — decades, never?, 50 years if we are lucky.
I don’t know when fusion will come through.
Its important however to keep plugging away at it even if progress is slow—because the results are so profound.
4th generation nuclear reactors however will come onstream much more quickly. The first ones were actually done back in the 1960’s. they had working models working properly that were abandoned because of politics. the next working models will come out in the early 2020’s. the beta’s will produce electricity for .03@ kilowatt. subsequent models will quickly take prices down to to .01@ kilowatt. this is what causes the next big industrial revolution.
Connecting two points made in the article that the author doesn't connect- artificial beef leading to 30% less agricultural area being used and exponential growth in solar energy. It seems the future of our open spaces is to be to curtail human access in favor of blanketing them with solar collectors and bird destroying light concentrators-mirrors and lenses.
Thorium reactors. They are relatively cheap, much safer, and can be miniaturized so that it is practical for a very large building to draw all its power from one in the basement.