Ah, Benny's parents, thanks for coming.

Hiya.

So, Benny has really blossomed this term.

You're telling me, he outgrew his bike. We sold it, on eBay.

Oh, that's not quite what I meant.

It's free to sell on there.

Free to sell?

Easy too. Sold Benny's bike, your guitar, my jacket.

You sold my guitar?

Shall we talk about Benny?

When it's this easy to sell for free, you can't help but say when it's eBay.

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Welcome to Science Talk, the more or less weekly podcast of Scientific American, posted on March 17th, 2010. I'm Steve Murski.

You remember fusion, not cold fusion, real, regular old fusion. It was going to solve all our energy

needs. Well, Scientific American staff editor Michael Moyer, as an article in the March issue of the

magazine, about the current state of fusion called

Fusion's False Dawn. We'll talk to him and we'll talk to editor-in-chief Mariette de

Christina about some of the rest of what's in the March issue. But first up, Michael Moyer.

Michael, let me just read the subhead of the article, Fusion's False Dawn.

Scientists have long dreamed of harnessing nuclear fusion, the power plant of the stars,

for a safe, clean, and virtually unlimited energy supply, even as a historic milestone near,

...