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Lemmy_K t1_je3h09c wrote

Nuclear Fusion. When it was about making a nuke, they gathered fantastic resources and went from Science-Fiction to explosion in 4 years. When it come to saving humanity with nuclear fusion, relative to our current capabilities, there only are relatively small attempts on-going for 40 years. ITER, the most serious attempt, get a budget of $1B a year, a 1000th of US military budget alone.

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theWunderknabe t1_je4ioyh wrote

Jep, enough funding to not let fusion die, but not enough to make real progress either.

The western world easily finds hundreds of billions for saving corrupt governments, banks, funding wars etc. but not for the one thing that could solve half of our problems.

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