[quote=livinincali]
Maybe Lawerence Livermore will unlock fusion sooner than later, but we’re probably still decades away unless you do a Manhattan style project.[/quote]
The entire cost of the Manhattan project was just under $2 billion, roughly $25 billion in today’s dollar.
Our 2012 deficit was $1.1 Trillion dollars, enough to run 44 Manhattan projects in their entirety. Each employing 130,000 people.
Along with the trillion in debt from 2011 being enough to fund 5 Apollo Moon programs, each in their entirety for the decade, just imagine what we could have done…
Take the 2010 trillion in debt, and Hoover Dam’s $49 million dollar price tag (call it a billion today) and just go ahead and build another thousand of those.
