Lockheed Martin bets big on...nuclear fusion?

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6. I like the optimism, ...

behind the potential of fusion and thorium reactors, but optimism is not results. Will either of these technologies be ready for massive grid requirements before the methane in permafrost and oceans, fuel the heat cycle beyond 4*C.

Warming that is already in the pipeline and cannot be reversed with existing technologies, inhibits the possible effects of even an abundance of future clean energy, if there is not an environment and industrial infrastructure to work with. The race is on, not just for an abundant clean energy source, but as well some technology that can diminish the green house gas blanket and start reversing the heating that is already running away.

'Tool monkeys' might be clever and inventive, but are they clever and inventive, fast enough?

I personally think the next twenty years will define the odds of survival. Will the above two future technologies be functioning, or will they be fading dreams obscured by a daily struggle to maintain order within the escalating chaos?