Focusing on fusion is a distraction because solar energy is already effectively approaching zero cost and offers a more immediate solution to energy needs.

“The thing is, fusion energy exists today. It's called the sun. We actually know how to capture it at virtually no cost right now.”

The recent achievement of net energy gain in a fusion reaction is a major scientific milestone that demonstrates the future potential for grid-scale energy production.

“So, what they did is they had a small deuterium and tritium pellet and they shone 192 lasers onto this container that held that little fuel. Okay. With 192 lasers, the whole thing happened in a billionth of a second. The lasers pulsed, boom, here's an image of it.”