to accept the keystone xl pipeline and set off the carbon bomb as bill mckibbon says, that is choosing the wrong path, and we have every confidence that he will make the right decision, and that s why, alex, as you mentioned, nearly 50,000 people were many the streets of d.c. demonstrating to the president that he has our support to reject keystone. melinda, i want to ask you from playing devil s advocate the counter argument, and i ll read a quote. like it or not, fossil fuels are going to remain the world s dominant energy force for the foreseeable future, and we are far better off getting our oil from canada than, say, venezuela. tar sands oil problems are all in all pretty small. sort of a similar stance echoed if the pages of nature magazine. there are a lot of folks that say, okay, well, if we don t take this energy, china will, and we re just going to be more reliant on questionable states to supply our energy. well, we can t drill our way out of the problem. america is
nuclear fusion, it s an energy force that some hope could one day power the world. but does it really take a scientist to produce it? here s cnn s carol costello. reporter: a warehouse in brooklyn, inside a dream that if realized could change everything. it sounds like a jet engine. reporter: this is a web designer for gucci by day, and amateur science junkee or fusionist by night. you can hear it. kind of getting higher an higher. anticipation is building. it is. are you excited? reporter: i am excited. reporter: he s built a nuclear fusion reactor, a machine he hopes one day will imitate the sun s power and power our world. so what is the hope and the goal? that this will lead to a viable energy technology. reporter: his dream is not new. nuclear fusion has long been considered the holy grail of energy production.