{"id":6925,"date":"2026-02-06T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/?p=6925"},"modified":"2026-02-04T11:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:44:10","slug":"nuclear-fusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/nuclear-fusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear fusion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When will nuclear fusion be commercially viable at the earliest? Experts say: realistically, not until after 2045. This means that the technology is currently irrelevant for the German energy transition. The same applies to Germany&#8217;s 2045 climate targets. So why should we still be concerned with nuclear fusion? Because development is currently very dynamic and positive. Because the technology holds great promise: namely, unlimited potential for CO<sub>2<\/sub>-free, weather-independent power generation with virtually inexhaustible fuels. And last but not least, because Germany is very well positioned in this field of technology. Manfred Schroeder has written a background paper on the potential and current developments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When will nuclear fusion be commercially viable at the earliest? Experts say: realistically, not until after 2045. This means that the technology is currently irrelevant for the German energy transition. The same applies to Germany&#8217;s 2045 climate targets. So why should we still be concerned with nuclear fusion? Because development is currently very dynamic and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6926,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6925\/revisions\/6926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}