#66 Fusion Excluded From International Energy Agency Climate Road Map

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By Steven B. Krivit
May 18, 2021

The International Energy Agency, under the leadership of Fatih Birol, the executive director, has issued a detailed road map of requirements and possible solutions to reduce global carbon dioxide emissions to net zero by 2050. Fusion is not mentioned in the report.

Three years ago, I wrote to Birol about the following two false ITER claims on his organization’s Web site:

When I checked that page on Nov. 1, 2018, Birol had removed the false claims and stripped the page of almost all content.

The following year, Birol removed the entire Web page.

More recently, the agency has published a new fusion power Web page. It comprises individual brochures about various fusion research activities. The Tokamak Programmes brochure, which is effectively the ITER brochure, says nothing about the expected power output of ITER.