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Aren't you implying, intentionally or not, that a "Manhattan Project" level of expenditure, $25 billion, is enough to make meaningful progress towards commercial fusion energy production? I don't think that is a given.


The implication is rather that we’ve grown much more inept when it comes to getting things done.


Because there isn't an existential war going on forcing people to listen to the people who want to be economically efficient.


Yeah it’s not like we’re in any kind of emergency that required reorganizing the whole society and economy, or anything like that.


Or because all the low hanging fruit is plucked.


That's roughly the total cost of ITER.


According to David Edgerton's The Shock of the Old, Brigadier-General Leslie Groves had previously overseen the construction of several munitions plants costing much more than the entire cost of the Manhattan Engineering District project.

1. Chapter 8, "Invention", p198 in my paperback edition.




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