In late September, American scientists got more energy
out of a fusion reaction than the fuel absorbed in igniting it — the
first time that’s been achieved by researchers anywhere in the world.
The research team that pulled it off is based at the National Ignition
Facility (NIF), in Livermore, California. And in a bitter twist, they were furloughed just days afterward by the government shutdown.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/10/10/2760911/american-researchers-fusion-breakthrough/
Since
1953, when the fusion program started, the total spent on fusion energy
in the US, both Magnetic and Inertial is $22.4 billion dollars.
Adjusting for inflation, total fusion spending is $29.1 billion. That’s
for 57 years of fusion funding. That’s an average of $510 million per year.http://focusfusion.org/index.php/site/reframe/wasteful
The
U.S. federal government spent over $15 billion dollars in 2010 on the
War on Drugs, at a rate of about $500 per second. State and local
governments spent at least another 25 billion dollars.
http://www.drugsense.org/cms/wodclock
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