undefined | Better HN

0 pointsthrowawaymaths2y ago0 comments

The government could drop funding of fusion that can't be commercialized and give grants to other fusion projects? Funding between government research agendas is rivalrous too.

0 comments

2 comments · 1 top-level

onlyrealcuzzo2y ago· 1 in thread

This isn't a zero sum game.

We have enough money that we can do both.

It should only be a question of whether this NIF research is useful.

Surely, they are actually producing some value. There research is beneficial to fusion in general.

Is it useful enough? I don't know.

throwawaymathsOP2y ago

You're kidding right? Political handouts are exactly a zero sum game. To fund something new, you must pick one of either:

- decrease spending elsewhere

- tax people more

- borrow on credit

- print money

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse