The US Must Not Lose the Race for Nuclear Fusion Energy to China

by Lawrence Kadish • April 22, 2025 at 5:00 am

Without the means of harnessing a new, clean, inexpensive, inexhaustible source of power through fusion, our nation may face the difficult choice of either powering AI advances to protect our world leadership or keeping the lights on at our industries and cities -- but not both. (Image source: iStock/Getty Images)

A visionary, an entrepreneur, a futurist, and perhaps one of the most creative of his generation, one still needs to spend considerable time in reading the comments of Elon Musk to determine his current opinion regarding fusion energy.

Prior published interviews suggest he has been a very strong proponent of solar and wind power, energy sources that have brought Europe to its knees economically and that, understandably, are not currently in favor at the White House.

In 2023, Musk told Joe Rogan during a podcast that "You could actually power the entire United States with 100 miles of 100 miles of solar."

Musk did in fact recognize the power of fusion energy but, in this context, he meant the sun generating electricity through solar panels:

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