• kippinitreal@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    In your guys opinion, is that good or bad? Privately funded would mean proprietary & profit driven implementation for such a crucial technology (if successful). I personally don’t like it.

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      The CPC still maintains a lot of influence over companies even when they’re getting their funding from private industry as part of their “politics in command” strategy for controlling market forces. We’ll see how it plays out.

    • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      Any path that takes us to unlimited clean energy is the right one IMO. We could always do a little espionage and make our own domestic fusion drive eventually.

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      4 months ago

      I don’t mind profit driven because I’m confident that free markets are good for everybody.