> [...] simply not trivial Well, yeah. It's not clear how hard it is. It seems unlikely a high school kid will get power from their farnsworth fusor in their g

> [...] simply not trivial Well, yeah. It's not clear how hard it is. It seems unlikely a high school kid will get power from their farnsworth fusor in their garage. It's not something you can cobble together in your back yard. In the absence of corruption, will a billion dollars do it? Will 100 billion? 10 trillion? It's not a question we can answer. The answer may be no at any price. I do think a serious effort would have some pretty cool side effects. Perhaps some advances in material science, higher precision in process control, fast dynamic control of magnetic fields. That said, at what cost? Infrastructure, health care, the F-35, whatever war we want to have next. Dumping a lot of money into fusion power is probably not the optimal answer. But i don't think it's the flat out wrong answer. We don't know what's behind door number 2, It's probably not infinite free power. But there's probably good stuff there, and worth exploring eventually. Anyway, it's clearly too risky for private enterprise. It seems like one of those questions that federal funding could answer. Again, the answer might be no, it's to hard to do at a reasonable price. Right now, we just have a bunch of questions. As things are, we're going to have a bunch of questions for quite some time.