If the government wanted it that bad, they’d already taken it.
That doesn’t explain what Rossi’s doing or why.
It would be rather difficult for the US to declare it a National Security issue when the thing is being manufactured and about to be sold across Europe.
Want me to think outside out the box?
How about it’s the liberal billionaires thinking it’s time for them to rattle the gavel and make the final decisions. Come out with a new energy source that doesn’t require hundreds of supertankers or tens of thousands of railroad cars, thousands of coal miners, thousands of oil field workers. Crush the capitalist energy companies (oil, coal, nuclear, gas) (Exxon, Chevron, BP, Shell, and the rest)into cat litter as the demand for crude drops like a rock.