Fusion Power

     Scientists announced today that they had achieved controlled nuclear fusion ( Google it...) for the first time on December 5th, a difficult feat that they have been working on for decades. The technology has tremendous promise as a source of mostly clean, 'limitless' energy, but there remain many engineering obstacles until we achieve economical power station reality.  I do not want to minimize or criticize the potential importance of this breakthrough, but I compare it to the Wright Brothers first flight when what will be needed are rocket engines. As new people and money and computing power are flushed onto the problem, maybe breakthroughs will occur faster than the progress in flight, so let's hope humanity has the time.