Given the current scale of clean energy investment, transferring the fusion projects' money would be a drop in the ocean. 25 years ago (the customary fusion ti

Given the current scale of clean energy investment, transferring the fusion projects' money would be a drop in the ocean. 25 years ago (the customary fusion time unit ;)) that would have been very different, but who knows, perhaps that would have created a rigid "big money" mindset in the fledgling renewable market that would have crippled it forever, compared to the mix of brute force state money and organic growth we had in the history that did happen. And yes, unexpected side effects of large research spending can be a thing. Who knows how computing would look like today if European countries hadn't pooled to create that permanent physics festival called CERN.