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qazplm135

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13. oh I don't think that's remotely true

Reply to hunter (Reply #12)

Thu May 30, 2019, 08:57 PM

May 2019

but regardless, the full resources, bodies, money and energy of the federal government has never been focused on fusion.

We went from ZERO space program. Not a satellite. Not any real rocket tech. Nada. To putting men on the moon and manned space stations in orbit, in less than a decade.

We've never put that concerted effort and energy and emphasis and money into fusion (or anything else to be honest).

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Concerned About the Planetary Climate, the IEA Urges Rethinking Nuclear Phase Outs. [View all] NNadir May 2019 OP

Message auto-removed Name removed May 2019 #1

Not at all. NNadir May 2019 #2

Russian natural gas is the best! hunter May 2019 #4

Just what the fossil fuel industry would want... NeoGreen May 2019 #3

I'm aware of the opinions of anti-nukes, and the result, recorded in the planetary atmosphere... NNadir May 2019 #5

To me one of the answers qazplm135 May 2019 #6

I regularly attend talks at PPPL... NNadir May 2019 #7

It's been that way because we haven't qazplm135 May 2019 #8

This is not really true. NNadir May 2019 #11

Billions of dollars have been spent on fusion research. It's seen "Apollo Program" emphasis. hunter May 2019 #9

Compare that to Apollo program qazplm135 May 2019 #10

I think more intellectual energy has been applied to the problem of controlled fusion... hunter May 2019 #12

oh I don't think that's remotely true qazplm135 May 2019 #13

Oh sure we have... hunter May 2019 #14

you do understand qazplm135 May 2019 #15

In today's dollars, the Apollo Program was what, $180 billion? hunter May 2019 #17

On the contrary. We arrested and then hired Werner Von Braun in 1945. NNadir May 2019 #16