Comment Re:We put all our eggs into the ITER basket. (Score 1) 305
You are barking up the wrong tree.
Of course there is no conspiracy and I very much appreciate that Jeff Bezos invests into General Fusion.
What I find problematic is that ITER crowds out other fusion research due to its cost overuns. For instance there are now only 1 1 1/2 positions allocated to the Shiva star device (a machine GF could put to good use for plasma compression experiments). This is just enough money to prevent a mothballing of the machine, but not enough to actually get some research done.
This is not conspiracy but just how the world works. As ITER absorbs more money the overall public budget doesn't grow, and government is too inflexible to allow for private partnership (especially with, god forbid, a Canadian company).