There are almost no companies that will invest in a project that will not produce a positive cash flow within a set number of years. The longer the time period for returns, the riskier the project.
Asking private companies to risk billions of dollars for half a century is unreasonable. That is what government research is all about, assuming the risk that private companies are not willing to take.
>>>>There are almost no companies that will invest in a project that will not produce a positive cash flow within a set number of years. The longer the time period for returns, the riskier the project.
There are grants set up for stem cell. And Al Gore made the intellectual property rights available for the funding foundations to own the research that they fund.
Companies that agree to the research proposal for funding get to decide if they will have a return on investment. And with all the new patent tricks, it isn't the loss that you are presenting.