Let me guess, he only needs a huge multibillion line of credit from Uncle Sugar?
Yuppers.
“Let me guess, he only needs a huge multibillion line of credit from Uncle Sugar?”
More likely over a hundred billion dollar line of credit from a coalition of Governments.
He estimates ten billion just to design and build “preliminary hardware”. His current efforts are fourfold over their initial budgets.
I think that the bottom line is that there is no showstopping physics problem, so it is essentially just a matter of time and money.