This reminds me of Rod Adams' argument that the US nuclear program focuses too much on scientific research, when the more practical thing to do would be to focus more on the engineering challenges of mass reactor production, plant construction scheduling and logistics, and so on. That engineering approach could get us huge amounts of inexpensive, safe green power, as China is discovering already. But instead the US remains preoccupied with research, when they ought to be building with the technology we've already got.
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This reminds me of Rod Adams' argument that the US nuclear program focuses too much on scientific research, when the more practical thing to do would be to focus more on the engineering challenges of mass reactor production, plant construction scheduling and logistics, and so on. That engineering approach could get us huge amounts of inexpensive, safe green power, as China is discovering already. But instead the US remains preoccupied with research, when they ought to be building with the technology we've already got.