Yeah I wonder about that whenever news about fusion power comes up. The whole thing about fusion power being perpetually 20+ years off seems to be predicated on how much funding it gets. It would be pretty messed up if, this whole friggin time, we could have already been using fusion to replace fossil fuels if that money had been going to the DOE for research instead of the Pentagon (and equivalent agencies worldwide).
Yeah I wonder about that whenever news about fusion power comes up. The whole thing about fusion power being perpetually 20+ years off seems to be predicated on how much funding it gets. It would be pretty messed up if, this whole friggin time, we could have already been using fusion to replace fossil fuels if that money had been going to the DOE for research instead of the Pentagon (and equivalent agencies worldwide).