Re: Fusion is saleable.
But fusion won't make wind farm builders and their lobbyists in Brussels rich, will it?
I work in this sector, have good connections with my employers policy, lobbying, PR teams. The reality is that industry is following policy, not shaping it. EU policy is formed primarily by the broad red-green political alliances in Brussels who are fully committed to the climate change cause. The influence of commercial lobbyists in this sector is weak, but it doesn't really matter - the policy is set, and the political classes are happily committed to it. The commercial sector follows the money, and in this case, the money is all about pushing the fashionable "renewables", and the great thing for the British government is that most of the costs of this are completely hidden in your electricity bill. As a broad estimate, about 50% of your entire energy bills are consumed by the various costs of UK government decarbonisation policies - ECO, RO, CfDs, RHI, FIT, and then the huge costs added to electricity distribution costs by having to cope with all the renewable toys. And that's before the twats of Westminster start "decarbonising" heat and transport.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
