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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4629239.stm>>
>>10 billon Euro; international investment; second most expensive joint scientific project after the international space station. And, immense rewards for the future, if it is made to work.
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>I guess cold fusion was indeed a fakery and just died.
>At least it was far less expensive than this < s >
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>I wonder what 10 billion Euros could buy in terms of developing solar/wind/tides/thermal-to-hydrogen-to... transport, electricity, heating, etc?????
With respect to energy, I think several alternatives should be investigated. The current situation is not at all ideal, and a research investment of 10 billion, or even a trillion, dollars or euros doesn't seem like much, if it will eventually help to solve one of the major problems of the World. (For comparison, the World is spending a trillion dollars
per annum for armament.)
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
