Fusion: Hope For The Future?

Recently, in another group I am in, the following topic was shared among us:
In a breakthrough experiment, nuclear fusion finally makes more energy than it uses
So I began 'a-googling to see what information was out there concerning this achievement.As many of you know, I am concerned with our (humanities) collective social and financial future. An eventual breakthrough leading to cheap and abundant energy could be a game-changer. The main issue, of course, would be the cost. Who pays the electric bill and how much is it?

In a related issue, which global empire gets to have the rights to such technology initially? As Ray Dalio reminds us, the United States is on a slow decline and China is on a slow accent. Our only advantage is our freedom, but our political squabbling complicates and hinders our progress. Of course, the CCP(Chinese Communist Party) complicates and hinders theirs as well. The global humanists will simply say that such an invention belongs to *all* of us but the reality on this planet is and has been about power and control rather than pious platitudes about the brotherhood of man.Personally, I would love to see the Western Capitalists get ahold of the technology first and leave the governments out of it. But that argument is for another topic!