I wrote:
"[Dyson] feels that if the scientists had been given a few more years
to play around before committing to the conventional US fission
reactor design, fusion power would be cheaper, safer and more reliable."
I mean "fission power" would be more reliable! That was not even a
voice input error. More like a Freudian slip.
The development of plasma fusion is yet another extreme: not too soon
or too late, but too hard, too botched, or too never. It may be the
most extreme case in history. I doubt any other R&D project has gone
on for so long and racked up such expenses with nothing to show for
it. It is like the Hundred Years' War.
- Jed
