"there are better uses of energy funding (and if so which areas)?"
He said so somewhere else. I would assume:
batterie, electrolyse, fuel cells, more flexible energy grid, solar panel as light weight foil ... all that works already today and can be greatly improved.
Fusion is awesome. And we can greatly benefit from it, someday. But to me it sounds like scam if it is advertised as the energy solution. Not when we are still at the stage of basic research (except for bombs).
Till then I would rely on the very big working fusion reactor we have: the sun.
He said so somewhere else. I would assume:
batterie, electrolyse, fuel cells, more flexible energy grid, solar panel as light weight foil ... all that works already today and can be greatly improved.
Fusion is awesome. And we can greatly benefit from it, someday. But to me it sounds like scam if it is advertised as the energy solution. Not when we are still at the stage of basic research (except for bombs).
Till then I would rely on the very big working fusion reactor we have: the sun.