Reply To: Bang or no bang

[Brian H]

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Talking about conversion, this attitude that its all “big physics” that is holding it all down is a big problem. Because they are not holding you down. If there budget is cut, so is yours. You won’t get that slice of the pie.
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Read some history. There was a concerted push decades ago to defund all but the main channel, i.e. the sure-thing Tokamak “which just needed to be built big enough”. And it would be impossible to cut Focus Fusion’s budget. It has none. It receives 0% of government fusion/energy research funding, to 100 decimal places.

Which is why it’s going to be such a kick* when its “road not taken” short-cuts and short-circuits all the big job creation projects. Ideally, adequate private funding will continue and increase, keeping LPP out of the purview of and dependence on politicians and bureaucrats, who are currently, true to form, jerking around the “long term” funding of projects about whose merits they have only the foggiest.

*I’ll let you guess where.