What if the Perfect Climate Fix Can’t Arrive in Time?
Even a surprise innovation tomorrow would require time to scale up. In the meantime, the emissions crisis would continue, according to a policy-simulating tool.
Thirty-five nations are collaborating in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project (ITER), aimed at mastering energy production from hydrogen fusion, in Saint-Paul-les-Durance, southeastern France.
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Congratulations, everybody. We did it. It's March 24, 2021—tomorrow morning!—and we've woken up to discover just sitting there in the garage a boundless zero-carbon technology. What do you think it is? Nuclear fusion? Thorium-fueled reactors? Static generators powered by rubbing balloons on our hair? It doesn't matter. Whatever it is, we're finally safe. Innovation works.