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[leephillips]

You are correct on all points. The public story is energy, the real story is more about stockpile stewardship. Since we will never derive commercial power from fusion, it would be foolish of Congress to continue to fund this sector with that in mind:

http://progressive.org/op-eds/let-cut-our-losses-on-fusion-e...

[falseprofit → leephillips]

The comment you're replying to is talking about laser fusion. It would be foolish to give up on the tokamak at this point...

[leephillips → falseprofit]

Quite. I’m sure that commercial fusion power from tokomaks is only five years away, as it has been since 1949.

[falseprofit → leephillips]

Try thinking more than 5 years ahead.