The Fusion Watershed Event

After the first successful controlled fusion plasma ignition at the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on December 5th, we’re no longer living in the same world that we had thought we inhabited three weeks back. All of the immediate possibilities are different—and much improved over what they had been. Even all of us who have fought for decades to bring forward the fusion economy anticipated by visionaries such as Lyndon LaRouche have not yet fully grasped the change. Really the only comparable revolution in human history since the advent of steam power is that associated with the development of human flight. And it’s worth taking a look at it to gain some insight into where we are going.