Fusion illusion: as work begins to build the world's most ambitious fusion reactor in France, and as proponents try to sell us the promise of a new, clean, fusion age, Peter Montague wonders whether we haven't heard it all before.

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France working on a fusion reactor to generate electricty, through investments from various countries

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Fusion illusion: as work begins to build the world's most ambitious fusion reactor in France, and as proponents try to sell us the promise of a new, clean, fusion age, Peter Montague wonders whether we haven't heard it all before.

The looming calamity of global warming has begun to dawn on the men and women (really, mostly men) who fancy that they own and operate Western civilization--the petrochemical cartels and their attendant law firms and lobbyists, the insurance and banking syndicates, the big media and entertainment conglomerates, the civil and military services, the large research universities.

For two decades the response to global warming from these quarters has been mainly silence, ridicule or denial, but now accum...

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