Can You Build a Fusion Reactor for $20 million?

"There's a feeling that the research has to be done by a government, that it costs billions of dollars and that 3,000 smart people can't be wrong."

In a fascinating new interview, the CEO of General Fusion explains why he believes today's cheap digital signal processors have now actually become powerful enough to control a fusion energy-generating plasma reaction!

This could create a virtually unlimited source of clean energy. "Those involved in science should be curious, but it's easier to just dismiss us." Working with just $9 million from private investors and a $12.9 million grant, General Fusion is currently finishing their components, and in 2011 they'll assemble the reactor. And if his company succeeds, they'll revolutionize the energy industry.

"Electric plants in the United States take three trainloads of coal a day, but you could run a fusion reactor with one truckload of heavy water for a year."