Why Building Fusion Reactors Might Be Pointless | Elon Musk #futuretech

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]Any interest in fusion?

[00:00:02]I mean like like >> Yeah, no.

[00:00:03]>> No one wants fusion on the [laughter] planet.

[00:00:06]>> You know what you know what >> I saw that coming a mile away.

[00:00:09]>> [laughter] >> You know you're never going to never going to guess how the sun works.

[00:00:14]>> Try and pull plugs.

[00:00:15]>> [laughter] >> It is it's I mean we we have a giant fusion free fusion reactor that shows up every day.

[00:00:20]>> 93 million miles away.

[00:00:22]>> Yeah.

[00:00:22]It's farcical for us to create uh little fusion reactors. Um I I mean that would be like you know, having a tiny ice cube maker in the Antarctic. [laughter] And say, "Hey, look we made ice." I'm like, "Congratulations."

[00:00:39]>> [laughter] >> Even the [ __ ] Antarctic.

[00:00:41]>> totally