Scenarios about 'fusion power'
The generation of energy through nuclear fusion reactions, typically involving hydrogen isotopes combining to form helium and releasing enormous amounts of energy. While conventional nuclear power relies on fission, fusion promises virtually limitless clean energy with minimal radioactive waste, though technological challenges have kept commercial fusion power perpetually "30 years away" since the mid-20th century. In alternate history scenarios, earlier development of practical fusion power often creates societies with abundant energy, altered geopolitics, and different environmental trajectories.
What If Fusion Power Was Achieved?
Exploring the alternate timeline where scientists successfully developed commercial fusion power in the early 2000s, revolutionizing global energy production and dramatically altering the course of climate change, geopolitics, and technological development.