Fusion Holds Near a Third of the Grid as Desalination Demand Climbs

GENEVA — Fusion has supplied close to thirty percent of the reconnected global grid all year, and it held there through the hot months even as demand rose. That steadiness is not the good news it sounds like. Desalination is electricity turned into drinking water, and as corridor megacities pushed past a hundred and twenty million displaced people toward the coast, their pull on the grid climbed faster than new baseload came online. "We are running to stay in place," said Emeka Okonkwo, chief executive of Aurora Fusion Works, whose reactor synced near Geneva in August. Every reactor added this year was, in effect, spoken for before it lit — soaked up by pumps turning seawater into supply. Analysts at Alpine Geneva Polytechnic note that a share holding flat under rising load is a grid working harder to run in place. The lights stay on. The margin does not widen.