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A friend of mine says, "This is why aramco is going public - and it will make the middle east less important to external nation states. It will also make electric cars actually beneficial."

Sounds good to me:
The Iter project involves 35 countries and, right now, it is constructing a huge test reactor in southern France. The plan is to have the first plasma generated in 2025. However, getting from this step to producing energy is extremely difficult. Iter has also been beset by long delays and budget overspend which means it is unlikely to have a demonstration fusion power plant working even by 2050. "One of the reasons that Iter is late is that it is really, really hard," said Prof Ian Chapman, chief executive of the UK Atomic Energy Authority. "What we are doing is fundamentally pushing the barriers of what's known in the technology world. And of course you reach hurdles and you have to overcome them, which we do all the time and Iter will happen, I am completely convinced of it."