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They tested it to destruction before they had to pack up. Otherwise they might always wonder how far they could have pushed it, had they never tried. That's a recipe for regret.

He got his funding from the military, which isn't supposed to be funding energy research. So he kept it low key. The Dept. of Energy is funding ITER, so might not spare any funds for alternative fusion research. That's the part I find dubious. They're funding ITER, but also the Z-machine, the National Ignition Facility, and nuclear weapons simulations. Maybe he just doesn't like the people there, or maybe their rejection of his Riggatron idea spoiled it for his current project.

Alot of researchers don't want to teach. So, training a student to continue his work isn't something he wants to do, plus he wants to be in charge of his own project, and have only his name on whatever he publishes.

I'm hoping that he will publish a detailed schematic on Fusor.net so that amateurs can build his reactor design. That'd be cool. I've seen amateurs build amazing things.

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