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that may be true, but getting it (or any new technology for that matter) to the point where it’d be economically viable requires an investment at some point..
by simba-hiiipower 14y ago
that may be true, but getting it (or any new technology for that matter) to the point where it’d be economically viable requires an investment at some point..
and ‘blowing’ those billions in the 80s may very-well not have paid-off with economically viable fusion power today, but i highly doubt it would have left us with nothing to show for it.
- jerf 14y agoWe don't really have a hell of a lot to show for what we have spent. Non-zero, sure, but a lot of the lessons we learned could certainly have been learned for a lot more cheaply if we hadn't tried to leap to the end of the process with grandiose projects built more on hope than science.