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nemmart wrote:
Another aspect that particularly troubles to me: if FF was as close as it sometimes appears, I’d think funding would be pouring in. […] So why hasn’t someone or some organization with deep pockets decided to fund this?

Controlled fusion is very hard to accomplish. there is science remaining to do. and the skeptics and naysayers are very loud. Funding will not be so hard to obtain after the next set of feasibility questions is answered, but right now, those funders do not know which of several schemes to invest in.

Do you know how to make the slope of the yield curve steeper?
https://focusfusion.org/index.php/site/article/new_calibration_confirms_ff-1s_high_fusion_yields/

The scheme that’s in the lead by end of this year should be funded, yes. Can you educate the investors and give them confident numbers for probability of success?