Nuclear fusion on brink of being realised, say MIT scientists

Re:Nuclear fusion on brink of being realised, say MIT scient... by Ygg2 on Friday March 09, 2018 @05:25AM (#16550899)

If we invested in space technology, the same money we invest into fusion, we'd be only 15 years from going to the moon too.

However there was the space race and lots of funds were allocated to going to the Moon.

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Re:Nuclear fusion on brink of being realised, say MIT scient... by JBlue42 on Friday March 09, 2018 @02:14PM (#16554090)

But will someone investing in fusion make someone else money, esp. since the electricity is free and some of the resources aren't scarce?

We don't do a lot of things, at least in the modern US, because we have tie economic incentive to everything vs doing for society, even at a 'loss'.

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