The U.S. Department of Energy announced Tuesday that it has accomplished net energy gain—one of the most major breakthroughs in making fusion a viable form of energy—for the first time ever. This milestone, experts hope, paves the way for a possible future of unlimited clean energy.
“This is an incredibly exciting result,” Stephanie Diem, a fusion energy researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told The Daily Beast. She added that the breakthrough “demonstrates how...