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"You Can Always Get What You Want — But Not What You Need" > https://youtu.be/QCw_D7dr7Rw

If you spare half an hour to Google, you can find out what we want collectively;

1) Find global spending on fusion research and note it down.

2) Pick some other stuff to compare it to. Like global annual military budget. Annual profits of the largest companies and what they sell to make it. Or how much do we spend on 'entertainment'. Or popularity of Kardashians(given even I know that f#cking name...) or whatever.

You'll be quick to realize that the fusion is sitting in the corner, waiting for us to "want to have it".

It makes me feel depressed to see on every fusion article in 2018, there is a paragraph allocated to explain how fusion is different from fission and how it is not... basically not a bomb.

The topic feels home in HN, but I do not know if you ever brought up fusion in a talk with family or even among your young friend circle. I certainly have engaged in that experiment myself. People do not even know what the heck is fusion, let alone lobbying to fund it with tax money. In this state, I say, the advancement on fusion is rather stellar, I congratulate wholeheartedly anyone putting sweat and money in it to bring things to this level.




Fusion isn't marginal because funding is low.

Rather, funding for fusion is low because fusion is marginal.

The money would be there if the technology warranted it. But examined closely, fusion doesn't appear promising, so people close their checkbooks.




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