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88. Lockheed may well have built a working IEC device capable of generating net power

Their timeline for the first production unit matches Bussard's Polywell design, including target date for bringing the first one online, as well as what physical description Lockheed gave. I'm confident we will have fusion power generation within five to six years.

Single payer is one thing we could afford. A system guaranteeing four years of higher education if a b c are met to high school graduates nationwide would be another possibility.

As I said in another post to this thread's pet troll, the sums we're talking about here are truly vast, almost beyond the ability of any one human being to allocate, or even comprehend the true size of. It's an abstraction to most of us, something we'll never ever come into contact with in a single lump. Hell- we have people right here on DU who think NASA gets too much money and we can't afford it any longer, and NASA's budget is a teaspoon from the Pacific ocean. Yet on every last NASA thread I read here, there's always at least one complaining that NASA gets too much money.

That only shows people complaining about government funding for this or that project or department or whatnot really don't understand the numbers involved. It's a problem, and one that needs to be dealt with if we're ever to get people to understand just how much money this country truly has at its disposal.