For years now, nuclear fusion has been 50 years away from being a viable power source. But recent fundamental advances in engineering reactors mean that we are now only 30 years away. Some of the younger people reading this tweet may even live to see the number brought down to 20
Every day the sun mocks us with rays of free, almost limitless power derived from a process that our best minds can't copy down here on earth despite having oceans full of fuel. Having to capture that power with solar panels is almost a slap in the face.
My favorite solar factoid is that the Sun's core, where nuclear fusion takes place, has the same power density as reptile metabolism. Just a big ball of gator meat up there in the sky, mocking our inability to fuse atoms, giving us freckles.
A serious effort on climate must include a huge spending program on fusion in the long term, and mass construction of fission plants in the short term. But Biden's proposed budget for nuclear research basically all goes to deferred maintenance. Those atoms won't split themselves!
It's time we learned to love atomic energy again. Burying a little radioactive waste deep under Reno is much better than having to breathe wildfire smoke every summer on gondola rides through lower Manhattan. 
It's scandalous that for all the talk of a climate crisis, the United States hasn't broken ground on a new nuclear power plant since the 1970's. The closest we've come is expanding an existing facility in Georgia.
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