The fusion vs. SPS battle

Can I jump in here with my 2 cents?

The whole battle of NF versus SPS will in the end only be solved
when the vested interest boys in NF are forced to put up or shut up.
I've heard rumblings that the SPS system is going for a hail mary
end run, and involving private enterprise funding. It maybe just
some smoking mirror scam, but from what I heard gather the whole SPS
system will be up and operational at least 40 years before the NF
boys get their thumbs out. EOM!

--- In ssi_list@... "Combs, Mike"
>
> Nuclear Fusion is vaporware, with no known roadmap to
success.
> Yet it is heavily funded.
>
> SPS is something we KNOW we can do in about 10 years, but so
> far,
> has no funding.
>
> And I have always suspected that the former situation might have
more
> than a little to do with the latter. I've seen the point made that
> physicists have come out of graduate school straight into plasma
physics
> research, remaining there until retirement. And thus saw their
entire
> career supported by the held-out promises of fusion. Many make a
point
> of attacking the SPS concept, seemingly viewing SPS as threatening
> competition.
>
> Fusion advocates can get quite defensive on this subject. One of
the
> few times I've ever had anybody curse me on Usenet was after I
said,
> "Anybody capable of looking at this objectively..." in the course
of a