“Still decades and hundreds of billions of dollars away”

That was the sobering refrain from the recent nuclear fusion announcement that has already taken decades and cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars to get to this point.

Meanwhile, the Biden administration is thwarting U.S. energy development, and Congress can’t pass bipartisan permitting rules to make energy siting and transmission more predictable. The nation suffers from the imperfect storm of gasoline and natural gas costs, the increasing frequency of blackouts and brownouts, and a greater reliance on foreign energy sources. 

Considering the genuine challenges our nation is facing, the United States should focus its resources on tangible solutions that are available now.

Around the world, more than 2 billion…