When will nuclear fusion power plants start to appear?
Who knows, could be 20 years could be never. The major problem with fusion is initiating it, you need incredibly high pressures and temperatures to produce a fusion reaction. At the moment fusion produces less energy than it takes to create the conditions required for it to occur, at least in a controlled fashion. Once (if) people work out how to actually get a significant net energy gain from it then we’ll probably see power plants. Also, it is being pursued further, there is an experimental reactor (ITER) currently being built in France. Carbon sequestration is not strongly enforced because it’s not proven on large scale. We still have very little idea how the carbon dioxide moves through the subsurface once it’s injected and no reliable monitoring techniques for gas leaks from the storage sites. In addition, moving CO2 from the plant to the storage site is a pain as it needs to be maintained as a supercritical fluid in order to be efficiently transported. This isn’t a particular pro
