Question: I'm intrigued as to how your work could provide energy for the future. Ovbiously this would be a big thing, so is this one of your top priorities to find a solution for?

Ceri Brenner answered on 16 Jun 2011:

absolutely, you’ve hit the nail on the head there. If we can work out how to successfully build a fusion power plant then we’d be sorted (for a long time at that)! so yeah, it’s basically the reason i’m in science research, i want to do my bit to save the world haha! for me, it’s all the amazing applications of the work that spur me on!

p.s. if you’d like to know more, then check these out: http://www.hiper-laser.org/ and https://lasers.llnl.gov/ they’ve got some really good explanations and videos about the science behind it, enjoy!