this is a good point, and to further illustrate the power of politics in these matters, I saw the monetary figure "$60 billion" used twice this week. One was the figure trumpeted for building a good, old-fashioned icbm shield, and the other was the estimated cost of building a Supersonic Mag-lev tube (with current technology) to, get this, England. Could we accelerate fusion research with $60 billion? IMO (hee-hee), probably.
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this is a good point, and to further illustrate the power of politics in these matters, I saw the monetary figure "$60 billion" used twice this week. One was the figure trumpeted for building a good, old-fashioned icbm shield, and the other was the estimated cost of building a Supersonic Mag-lev tube (with current technology) to, get this, England. Could we accelerate fusion research with $60 billion? IMO (hee-hee), probably.