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Aren't you implying, intentionally or not, that a "Manhattan Project" level of expenditure, $25 billion, is enough to make meaningful progress towards commercia
by 01100011 6y ago
Aren't you implying, intentionally or not, that a "Manhattan Project" level of expenditure, $25 billion, is enough to make meaningful progress towards commercial fusion energy production? I don't think that is a given.
- xyzzyz 6y agoThe implication is rather that we’ve grown much more inept when it comes to getting things done.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoBecause there isn't an existential war going on forcing people to listen to the people who want to be economically efficient.
- xyzzyz 6y agoYeah it’s not like we’re in any kind of emergency that required reorganizing the whole society and economy, or anything like that.
- ars 6y agoOr because all the low hanging fruit is plucked.
- IanCal 6y agoThat's roughly the total cost of ITER.
- tuatoru 6y agoAccording to David Edgerton's The Shock of the Old, Brigadier-General Leslie Groves had previously overseen the construction of several munitions plants costing much more than the entire cost of the Manhattan Engineering District project. 1. Chapter 8, "Invention", p198 in my paperback edition.