Can a fusion dislocation be good for us?

THE FUTURIAN #4

Tokomak maintenance, Rswilcox, Creative Commons

Kim was aghast. The events that his grandfather was recounting seemed to be from another time. Another planet even.

For decades it was a technology that did not have a good reputation. After the widely panned Fleischmann and Ponn “breakthrough” in 1989, no scientist of any repute would go near cold fusion. “Junk science” they said.