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Re:Experts Urge U.S. To Continue Support for Nuclear Fusion ... by NoblePublius on Saturday December 15, 2018 @08:03AM (#18688230)
If the only thing the world needed to make fusion work was less than half of the Juicero Series A, we would have had fusion a long time ago
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Re:Experts Urge U.S. To Continue Support for Nuclear Fusion ... by icebraining on Saturday December 15, 2018 @12:35PM (#18689334)
They're saying it (might) be the only thing the world needs now, after all the advances it has made up to today, not that it takes $30M to develop it all from scratch.

There is a point at which a single step is enough to win a marathon; that doesn't mean it would have been enough when the race started.

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