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f154hfdsonJuly 22, 2021
You may be quick to point out that fusion is different from airplanes - requiring vastly more money and resources. Except that that's also the same argument people thought was true about airplanes in 1900! Anyway, all of this to say if history is our guide than I have my doubts about ITER and the rest of the high profile projects. If fusion is to ever make headway I think it will be from some little known cheap operation in a way no one expects.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Langley#Aviation_work
eej71onMar 25, 2021