http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters ... _gree.html
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from the comments:
At 4:14pm on 16 Apr 2009, calcination wrote:
you are correct that continuing to use fossil fuels to provide the electricity is no use. However the current best hope for fusion that I am aware of is iter:
http://www.iter.org/
The problem is that it acknowledges that fusion won't be do-able at a commercial scale until around the 2050's, a little bit late for us.
There is always a possibility of some breakthrough somewhere in the meantime, but nobody seems to have heard of one.
So, fusion is out for 40 years.