I'm sometimes a tad skeptical of this framing of things. Everything always seems "easy" in retrospect, so our definition of easy based on what we've already done is highly suspect and distorted. Everything was once unbelievably hard until someone(s) figured it out, at which point it became obvious and easy.
I think what I'm saying is that generating gigawatts of power at all was once just as hard as fusion power is today. Past performance is not indicative of future returns on the downside, either.
I'm sometimes a tad skeptical of this framing of things. Everything always seems "easy" in retrospect, so our definition of easy based on what we've already done is highly suspect and distorted. Everything was once unbelievably hard until someone(s) figured it out, at which point it became obvious and easy.
I think what I'm saying is that generating gigawatts of power at all was once just as hard as fusion power is today. Past performance is not indicative of future returns on the downside, either.