THE NEXT FRONTIER

The final volume of the Global Energy Transition Series turns to technologies still ahead of commercial deployment: fusion energy and advanced fission, including small modular reactors and Generation IV designs. Their eventual role in the energy system is a matter of genuine technical and timing uncertainty, and The Next Frontier is disciplined about that uncertainty. It distinguishes real technical progress, some of it rapid in recent fusion research, from decades of overstated commercial timelines, and applies the same scrutiny to advanced fission claims. Offering the same engineering rigor as the earlier volumes, it treats speculative subjects with careful analysis rather than credulous promotion or dismissive skepticism, and its epilogue draws the whole series together into a vision of the energy system through mid-century and beyond. Planned for engineers, strategists, regulators, investors, and students.

In development: still being written, with no confirmed release date.