It's more in the category of the people who predicted in 1960 that we'd all have flying cars (or at
least nuclear fusion) by now.
Not exact matches
It is a possible fuel for
nuclear fusion that could solve energy demand on Earth for 10,000 years, at
least.
Seeing the light, via the Sun, requires that it had
nuclear fusion going on at
least a million years ago.
Because all elements in the universe heavier than hydrogen, helium, and lithium have been forged by
nuclear fusion in the cores of stars and then scattered into space by supernova explosions, the find indicates that the galaxy, at the age we're now observing it, was old enough for at
least one generation of stars to have formed, lived, and died.
It is barely capable of achieving a detectable
nuclear reaction, so
fusion is one of the
least hazardous parts of this project.
As the international ITER project to develop an experimental
nuclear fusion reactor eats into research budgets around the world, an advisory panel to the US Department of Energy recommends mothballing at
least one of three major experiments and focusing on research necessary to bring ITER online.