Commercial Fusion Power

What is it?

Nuclear power with very little waste and once the reaction has been started it will last hundreds of years. In 1966, Asimov said

the fusion of the hydrogen-2 contained in a liter of ordinary water, we could obtain as much energy as we would get through the combustion of 300 liters of gasoline. (entire passage)

There's a great tutorial on the net that covers the basics. And a lecture (local copy) from 1992 with some good strategies to get it done.

Why don't we have it yet?

The main issues are containment and ignition. Containment may be solved with a Tokamak.

Plans

There are lot's of proposals for getting this done but most of links I had here have vanished in the last few months! But here's a recent overview in Wired magazine.

I'm just getting into this, so if you have some good info, pass it my way