Re: Is the Moon the Saudi Arabia of the 21st Century?

From: Paul F. Dietz (dietz_at_dls.net)
Date: 09/23/04 

Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 07:11:14 -0500

Alex Terrell wrote:

> Come on guys - just another trillion dollars and we might make fusion
> work properly.

We haven't gotten to the first trillion yet. Not even close (unless
you count H-bomb manufacturing.)

The annual magnetic fusion budget in the US is much smaller than you
might think, much less than the cost of one shuttle launch, IIRC.

Developing working fusion reactors is probably the *easy* part of
this space exploitation scenario.

        Paul