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Yeah, but Lockheed could just be running a scam to fleece the US govt out of millions in research grants and tax credits. Obviously it's a huge bet that could p
by chillydawg 10y ago
Yeah, but Lockheed could just be running a scam to fleece the US govt out of millions in research grants and tax credits. Obviously it's a huge bet that could pay out $lol if it succeeds, but I suspect it's more of an accounting trick than serious R&D.
- XorNot 10y agoThey're not running a scam, but they don't have the results to be in more then the research curiousity stage. Keep in mind too, the W-7 isn't designed to be net energy positive either whereas ITER is.
- drjesusphd 10y agoAre you aware of ANY results at all?
- sfifs 10y agoI believe that they are self funding it
- chillydawg 10y agoI expect there are significant tax credits available for investing in that kind of research. In the UK there certainly are. You can characterise an awful lot of software development as R&D and write the cost off as research and claim a tax credit, which can be very substantial. The last place I worked was running this "scam" and offset it's dev budget by millions of pounds a year.