The Race Against China for Fusion Power to Generate Electricity:

The Race Against China for Fusion Power to Generate Electricity: Whoever Controls It, Controls the Century

Lawrence Kadish

Fusion energy is not only cheap, clean and limitless, it is also the "engine" that will drive the enormous increases in artificial intelligence (AI) that will be the ultimate super-weapon of this century. AI requires electricity -- enormous amounts of it -- that only fusion energy can generate cleanly, cheaply and in unlimited amounts.

If there were a formula for who will dominate the 21^st century, it would be: Fusion Energy + AI = World Supremacy.

Our nation, however, is now faced with a new and dangerous 21^st century threat.

China has been steamrolling ahead developing cheap, clean and limitless fusion energy to fuel the great new frontier of AI. Meanwhile, America appears stuck in the technology of soon-to-be-outdated fission energy.

AI, as President Donald J. Trump has stated, is what will determine which nation is the superpower of the 21^st century. The Trump administration cannot allow China to leave America in the dust for want of energy to power America's AI.

In this century, there will be two types of nations: the ones that conquered fusion energy and those that wish they had.

The problem in the US, so far, is that members of the current administration seems to prefer only fission energy. They know it, feel comfortable with it, and it is readily available. They also, understandably but shortsightedly, like projects that show an immediate return on investment. It is most urgent, however, if the US is to compete successfully with China, to think long-term.

China has been investing at least $1.5 billion each year in developing fusion energy for commercial use -- its current funding of fusion energy is, along with much else there, apparently a state secret.

Trump urgently needs to assemble a "Manhattan Project for Fusion Energy," similar to the Manhattan Project that President Franklin D. Roosevelt established during WWII for the US to have an atomic bomb. The new Manhattan Project could be funded by the next Reconciliation Bill and by some of the investments for energy development that Trump has so brilliantly brought in from abroad.

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