This is a really hard question to answer, but do you think in peacetime 1930s if you’d asked someone how long it would take to build the bomb, they’d say “we’re only a few decades away with proper funding”?
The pay off achieved by accelerating fusion development seems to justify almost any amount of spending. Is it worth going for it?
The most important subquestion for me: is there a sufficiently brilliant living scientist who has the technical ability, managerial skills, and integrity to be trusted to deliver? I wonder if this is the reason we haven’t already done it.
The pay off achieved by accelerating fusion development seems to justify almost any amount of spending. Is it worth going for it?
The most important subquestion for me: is there a sufficiently brilliant living scientist who has the technical ability, managerial skills, and integrity to be trusted to deliver? I wonder if this is the reason we haven’t already done it.