[Exendroinient00]

Still not nearly enough money invested to energy research.

[simiones]

This is not energy research, it's weapons research. Inertial containment fusion is only interesting because it replicates some of the conditions inside a fusion bomb - there is no plausible way to use it to generate electricity with anything approaching cost efficiency.

[bioemerl]

Once you have a viable start the money will explode into the sector. Manhattan project style.