It's badly subsidized research. Compare to, say, the budget of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado. For five hundred million dollars,

It's badly subsidized research. Compare to, say, the budget of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado. For five hundred million dollars, you can get, say, five thousand man-years worth of actual research. As opposed to a business that makes a few funny-looking sports cars for rich people and then goes broke.