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Fusion is the single most important thing in the world right now.

We should be researching this like there's no tomorrow, because without fusion, there really isn't much of a tomorrow. We also have a limited window in which to "bootstrap" ourselves into the fusion age; fusion takes a lot of power to research and we'll only have the cheap energy to do it for the next 50 years or so.

But while I wish him all the best with his fusion reactor, I'm kinda sceptical that someone in a shed is going to beat incredibly well funded scientists and engineers to the punch.

Besides, if someone in a shed is going to invent fusion, it will be a kiwi.

You never know what creative chaos can accomplish.. But i'm pretty certain that there is not a working fusion reactor in someone garage...

About why fusion is not our first priority: Too many too powerful people have invested and profiting from old tech. They are not going to let their grasp just disappear. We wont get working fusion until the one with power are given the absolute rights to use it, period. It will NOT be for us to use for free.

See I just don't believe that. Why? Because here I where I side with the libertarians. The market simply will not bear that technology being kept hidden, there's just way too much money at stake.

If someone on the planet had figured out usable fusion, they'd be selling it by now. Even if they sold it at cost + 0.00001% the market for cheap energy is so huge, that you'd still make billions. Even if you were an oil company. Because why would you spend a lot of money digging wells, etc, when you could get energy for next to nothing?

Existing infrastructure. All those oil refineries, transportation, just for starters. People make money from every level of production from drilling to selling the finished products. Then we have the dirty secret around everything we do: if it does not produce waste, it's not profitable. Fusion will render a lot of investments moot. Investments that are tied to finances, the structures are not free, they cost money to build and so they are worth something. Even thou everyone knows that free energy is our only hope, it's a death sentence to the big oil. Even if they are controlling it; the unit price of electricity will drop and EVERYONE in the chain loses money. Except the end user. Not even if we double or triple or 20 times exceed current energy consumption, it's gonna make less money. Or so they think, the world is full of business models that really does not work anymore.

I just to think "it'll get better, someday". It just have to. But Mr Fusion is not ready in 2015, that's more than sure, it's fixed to be so. And there is no conspiracy here, just follow the money where it goes and for 100% sure it ain't flowing towards free energy. No one is keeping secret to fusion locked away somewhere, if it works, they will start to use it. But they sure can delay the progress long enough for those Greenspan mates to die wealthy..

I remember seeing a documentary with a fusion demonstration where the building it was in (a steel structure) collapsed, due to the extreme magnetic forces created during the fusion. The chief scientists wife was killed in the collapse. I cant remember the name of the documentary.

Now that it's possible to upload the process to the internet and make it impossible to 'hide', I would agree, it can't be 'hidden' by outside forces unless the inventor never reveals the process. It can be underfunded by the direction of those that won't benefit.
I don't think Chain Reaction (the movie) was believable, I think the process would have been copied by someone in the group and released online, not hidden and stolen by the feds and big oil.

It was Spiderman 2 : )