Once you’ve created some plasma, what’s next? The stuff wriggles and squirms like a snake of superhot Jell-O, so you have to hold it steady, otherwise it could whip out and melt your equipment. Or it might just fall apart, for as violent as the plasma is, it is also fragile: You could snuff it out by blowing on it.
The paradox presented in this paragraph lead me to question the safety of this "new" energy. Although plasma has been developed artificially, it is extremely difficult to keep stable. If it is to be the new oil, I would argue it must be as stable, accessible, and transportable as the former. It is this unpredictability of plasma and the novelty of the technology that suggest that we are far from fission take over. We must start small, testing in smaller communities and recording the biological/genetic compromises of fission energy prior to fueling the world on a new star.