Imagine a grid planner choosing today between fusion pilot plants and proven solar, wind, and storage. For seventy years fusion has promised limitless clean power in 30 years, yet each decade resets the clock. The utilitarian problem is opportunity cost: billions spent chasing a maybe could have decarbonized now. The deontological problem is honesty: repeated funding cycles rest on promises engineers cannot guarantee. And virtue ethics asks whether prudence and humility are served by betting on a technology whose timeline keeps retreating. So is it perpetually 30 years away? I say yes.