Condo developers will frequently pre-sell a bunch of units, before breaking ground on a subdivision. Of course, they don’t have to invent construction methods and materials; and the units they’re selling are pretty-well known to work exactly as specified. How far away from ability to do this is focus fusion? Not that far, really.
But there is engineering work, to do. Capture the imagination of masters and phd students, causing demand for academic courses on the science and engineering of the reactor core as well as ancillary technologies of power capture, conversion and storage. Teach those courses, giving students the drive to advance the state of the art in these areas.
Make and sell spin-off technology?
