Why don't research for thermal fusion reactors doesn't receives more budget?

Question

it would solve all pollution problem....200 billions ain't much when we think of all the possible benefits...

Answer 1

The answer maybe here in this brief argument I have often put forward to nationalize our oil industry.

Pay particular attention to the 2nd paragraph from the bottom.

Note: $200 billion, over what length of time?  If its for one year, that is a very positive step, if it is for 10 years, then it is nothing -- plus, I believe this should be a joint effort by all countries working side by side.  Then instead of $200 billion, it could be a trillion.  After all, what is money worth if we continue to s***w up our environment? Not much, if one considers we're all in this together.

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I believe the oil companies need to be nationalized and the profits go back to the people in the form of lower taxes.Same with our communications systems.

Where I live in China as a transplanted American, both are nationalized and a gallon of gas costs about a buck less, and my cell phone bill is obscenely little. About $15 a month and I use it extensively.

Plus, I pay zero sales tax, and tax on a home is very small to non existent, plus I have no income tax, despite that I make considerably more then the average person.

There is a lot of revenue to be made off of both which gives the people more disposable income. A win for the government, a win for the people, a win for our economy. It will just pizzzz off the fat cats, one that some love to support, yet they don't give a rats behind about their supporters.

We often hear that the oil companies have a vested interest to give alternative energy only lip service.  What better way to take care of that problem then put energy in the hands of the people.  We need a Manhattan type of program to help eliminate our dependence on foreign oil while putting on the fast track alternative energy sources.  The oil companies will fight both till all we will have left is a drop in the bucket of what we really need, all while we, the tax payer, continues to give them welfare bucks.

What I fail to understand, people will fight tooth and nail to support the oil companies while continuing to pay high energy prices (at a profit that lines the pocket of the fat cat, who doesn't give one hoot about them.) and pay high taxes to boot. Kind of like, shooting themselves in the head just to prove they can. Makes no sense whatsoever.

Think about it.

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EDIT

Avail_SK

I downloaded the link you provided, it mentions Fusion in that report ONCE.  

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Jim

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Answer 2

Actually, our government is among several that have spent substantial amounts of money on fusion research.  The conclusions of preliminary research were that it would cost over a trillion dollars and take approximately 250 years to develop.  The money can be much better spent on developing energy sources for our children, not their great-great-(imagine 10 more greats here) grandchildren.

Answer 3

you mean like this?

http://nuclear.inl.gov/deliverables/docs...

oh didn't realize that. several of them have been built, but none have produced more energy than they have consumed.

That doesn't work very well when you are trying to make energy.

Answer 4

Nothing is stopping your from donating your money to such research.

Ben Franklin did not go to he US government once it ws formed and beg for grant money for his next research project. In fact he and the rest of the Founding Father would be appauled that there is government funding for programs that do not relate to the common protection of the collective states.

Do you really think John Adams would have dreamed of a day when tax rates were rised so private universities could research owl p**p?

When the break through comes it will be because of the private sector.

Answer 5

Every year there is a new "Energy Solution" which only proves more and more how ignorant the government really is

Energy is a classic example of why the government should get out of the way and allow the private sector to work themselves out themselves.

Each time the government attempts to fix this problem they only make it worse!

Last year congress passed all these ethanol incentives, encouraging farms to use their corn fields to grow a new type of corn which can be fairly easily turned into gasoline (or so they thought!) but isn't at all able to be digested. Republicans and Dems alike saw this as our salvation from the gas crisis... Only to later discover that nearly every farmer in the midwest had stopped growing eatible corn and was growing this new and hard corn in effect driving up the cost of every type of corn based food out there... on top of that they realized that refining this moonshine type brew into gasoline was harder than the midwest activists let on and as if that wasn't bad enough a new study has been released showing that for every 1gal. of this corn/gasoline brew 3gals. of diesel fuel was spent (tractors tilling, planting, discing, and harvesting the corn, trucks fertilizing and hauling the corn to turn into gasoline)...

That my friends is why Ronald Reagan once said:

"Government is not the solution to the problem. Government is the problem..."