Considering what's at stake, that is, the promise of almost limitless clean energy, how is it that the U.S.A. isn't leading the world in an Apollo to the moon, first atomic bomb, Panama Canal etc... like effort to develop a usable fusion reactor. Yes, it would cost a lot but so what. The payoff would be priceless. Are the oil and coal companys paying off politicians to block it? I really don't get it.
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Considering what's at stake, that is, the promise of almost limitless clean energy, how is it that the U.S.A. isn't leading the world in an Apollo to the moon, first atomic bomb, Panama Canal etc... like effort to develop a usable fusion reactor. Yes, it would cost a lot but so what. The payoff would be priceless. Are the oil and coal companys paying off politicians to block it? I really don't get it.