But if we're going to be spending billions of euros on moonshots, the core activity doesn't need to be fruitless! There's plenty of unfunded marginal ideas that

But if we're going to be spending billions of euros on moonshots, the core activity doesn't need to be fruitless! There's plenty of unfunded marginal ideas that could change the world if successful. How about funding something like MIT's ARC fusion reactor?[1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_fusion_reactor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_fusion_reactor