🔒 Puff of steam, wheels in motion
The year is 2045. At a fusion facility near Marseille, where the successor to the ITER project has just achieved a stable thermonuclear reaction at a temperature of one hundred million degrees, an engineer is checking the parameters… of a steam boiler.
Yes, you read that right. Humanity’s most advanced energy facility, which replicates the processes that occur inside stars, ultimately comes down to heating water.
This is not a joke or a dystopian scenario. This is the most likely future of our energy sector.
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