[Kevmo]

If I waste one dollar ... why am I condemned for not wanting to waste two of them?
***Your own words condemn you.

(and the Tokamak should not be judged by its current claimed output,
***BowlSheet. You’re judging LENR by that standard, you should judge Tokomak by the same standard. Today I’m on a waiting list for $5k LENR device, but you couldn’t get 1000 buddies together and afford a tokomak.

but as a scientific research tool
***That outputs 6MJ per run MAX, while LENR experiments output 100MJ per run AVERAGE

that is open to all comers
***Izzat so? Show me your waiting list for doing experiments on your Tokomak. I’m on a LENR waiting list for 1/1000th the cost, within 1-2 years’ time frame.

and anybody can build
***hah hah... HAH HAH HAH BWAhhaaaHAHAHAAA HAH HAAH hahhah... oh, that was just utterly precious

and gee, it works the same way for all of them without fail),
***Then you shouldn’t have any trouble for it being judged by its current claimed output.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Solomon’s advice not to argue with a mocker kicks in to me at this point. Bye, have a nice night.

[Mycroft Holmes]

Not to pick up from the HiTech RedNeck (hi!) but I really don’t want the government to be picking winners and losers in the market at all. Let’s not fund *any* energy companies with dollars extracted at gunpoint from innocent taxpayers and let the invisible hand of the market sort things out instead.

[muawiyah]

The Tokamak's get "hot" from stray ionizing radiation ~ which rapidly deteriorates their structural integrity and turns them into radioactive junk that has to be watched over for the next 10,000 years!

They never stop costing us taxpayers money.

I had to laugh at the idea we might put that sort of technology in private hands without government supervision of any kind.