For decades, the federal government has provided critical support for energy R&D.

Not doing too well lately, are you?

Fusion holds the promise of providing a practically limitless supply of clean energy to the world.

By the way, you can't actually default on a return investment. That's not possible.

For decades the federal government has provided critical support for energy research and development.

Is the market basically trying to tell us that nuclear fission, as a market, is doomed, given the fact that uranium now costs 75 percent less than it did even seven years ago?

What does that tell us about the market's assessment of the future of nuclear energy?

The basic idea of a battery, the anode, the cathode, the electrolyte, that idea is roughly 200 years old.

Intel spends $5 billion a year on research and development. There are several drug companies that actually match that or exceed it.

Even with these benefits, however, storage technologies may face opposition because storage is a technology that can permanently disrupt the electricity sector's business-as-usual model.

Storage can solve this problem.