> If thorium is cheap, there should be plenty of funding to go around. You seem to make the mistake to believe that government funding and government planning

> If thorium is cheap, there should be plenty of funding to go around. You seem to make the mistake to believe that government funding and government planning in regards to energy is rational and focused on finding the long term best solution. ... but it isn't. If they don't want much government investment I don't have a problem with them trying. But in general, historically the whole concept of a hydrogen economy has consumed huge amounts of government money with very little to show for it.