[OT] Engine braking

[monarch_dodra]

On Thursday, 1 August 2013 at 22:10:07 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> My hopes are with fusion. Specifically ITER. My research is on 
> diagnostics/data analysis for tokamaks, working with the guys 
> at Culham, UK (MAST and JET). They are cautiously optimistic.

When you read about fusion energy, you *can't* not be optimistic 
about it. At times though, it feels like its *such* a 
technological and *financial* hurdle, that the question is more 
like "Will we have mastered this technology before gas prices get 
so high a global recession will prevent us from ever financing 
the research?"