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Apart from the obvious reasons governments don't want to put "us military spending" amount of money into fusion research (very expensive, unclear benefits, pote
by effie 7y ago
Apart from the obvious reasons governments don't want to put "us military spending" amount of money into fusion research (very expensive, unclear benefits, potentially changing global economy, hurting oil companies), it is also not clear that putting more money at the problem would help. Look at the mess ITER has been organizationally. It hardly seems putting more people in that project would help.
- m0zg 7y agoPretty sure it would. After all there are multiple precedents: at least three "unlimited budget" attempts at changing the world worked fine: WW2, Manhattan Project, Apollo program. The first ended the British imperial ambitions and established the US as the undisputed world leader, the second did the same in the nuclear arms race, and the third repeated the feat in space. This doesn't have to be super complicated like ITER.