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Thomas Friedman of the NY Times recently visited the NIF facility as quite the skeptic. Fusion energy offers the promise of renewable, sustainable, and carbon-free energy. Sounds like a pipe dream in many ways.
But Friedman was impressed, especially with the enormous facility:
I began my tour there with the N.I.F. director, Edward Moses. He was holding up a tiny gold can the size of a Tylenol tablet, and inside it was plastic pellet, the size of a single peppercorn, that would be filled with frozen hydrogen.
The way the N.I.F. works is …