(Gatestone Institution)—Over the last several months, this author been stressing the need for America to urgently develop clean, cheap, limitless nuclear fusion energy to generate the vast amounts of electricity we will need if we are successfully to compete with China in the new frontier of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Until now, the US has been are promoting reactors for controversial nuclear fission energy, as in Chernobyl.
The urgent strategic reason for our nation to invest in securing this technology is to protect our superpower status as democracy’s champion.
Consider: The nation that dominates AI platforms will have the means of advancing its global policies to the rest of the world. AI, however, requires unfathomable amounts of electrical power.
As AI systems become more sophisticated and wide-ranging, their energy requirements will determine who succeeds in becoming the next 21st century superpower and who is left behind in history’s wake. China knows the score — that is why it is heavily investing to develop fusion power in a race America is apparently not even aware exists.
It is fusion energy alone, as China currently understands, that will determine whether the US or China ends up as the world’s leading superpower by the end of the century. It would be beyond unthinkable for the US to let China win.
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