If we can generate energy via nuclear fusion, I think it would be an evolutionary step that will bring our society to another level.. This is simply amazing..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24429621

Not in my lifetime, in the lab, nor in my children's or their's in everyday practice. The problem is very difficult and up to this point has required stars to create in a sustained manner.

It always seems to be 30 years in the future.

It is only that the labs overlooked essential first steps.

(1) Clone Oppenheimer and Bethe.

(2) Proceed.

(3) Keep Teller far away.

Well up above the tropostrata

There is a region dark and stellar

Where, on a streak of anti-matter,

Lived Dr. Edward Anti-Teller.

Remote from Fusion's origin

He lived unguessed and unawares

With all his anti-kith and kin

And kept macassars on his chairs.

One morning, idling by the sea,

He spied a tin of monstrous girth

That bore three letters: AEC.

Out stepped a visitor from Earth.

Then, shouting gladly o'er the sands,

Met two who in their alien ways

Were like as lentils. Their right hands

Clasped, and the rest was gamma rays.

'Perils of Modern Living,' Harold P. Furth