Reply To: What can we do with $189 Billion?

[zapkitty]

ikanreed wrote: I know we’re all gung-ho for the value of aneutronic fusion, but all fusion wins if any commercially viable fusion reactor hits the market. Suddenly no one can claim that fusion is “always 50 years away” anymore.

Wouldn’t count on that occurring on its own. Our self-proclaimed “uber elites” are very good at encouraging or even arranging situations where a not-so-good solution (such as bomb-capable commercial fission power plants) become treated as the only “viable” solution even over manifestly superior options.

I know that the various D-T projects are proceeding with the best of intentions and I do wish them success.

But that doesn’t change the simple fact that neutronic fusion is the PTB’s third choice for controlling access to baseload power… the first two being fossil and fission.

While any neutronic success will be good news overall, the aneutronic projects will still have to fight the headwind of a new status quo.