Reply To: Barack Obama on Energy

[JShell]

“Fusion Perceptions” is a good point. I think that is the real key here. Hearing about how other earlier books have shaped people’s perspectives on fusion power is interesting. I think that people hold onto oil because it has been what has worked (and made money) in the past. People have to start to believe that fusion power could be profitable before they’ll think that a breakthrough could be self-sustaining, and that it could eventually fund more of its own research (in addition to other challenges). As far as the military-industrial complex goes, stopping that is pretty hard, but I have to hope that as the world becomes more globalized, that people will find less need for war (and war materials). I feel like developing countries can’t invest in fusion power for the same reasons why they can’t invest in public health programs–they’re costly and lots of developing countries are just barely scraping by.