WHEN will they stop throwing good money after bad?  Can you IMAGINE the amount of affordable housing units that could have been built for $20B ?  ???  ::)  Let's do the math on this one.  Generous cost estimate for building my suggested 8'X 20' container size Tiny Home units is $20K each.  Given I have seen models retailing at $20K, with economies of scale I'm sure you could manufacture them for $5K or less, but let's be generous.  Alot 1/2 of the money ($10B) for producing them means you get 50 MILLION of these  boxes.  Every last one of them could have a solar PV roof also.

This leaves $10B to acquire the land and build the scaffolding to slide them into in Urban neighborhoods where you have to stack them up.  Now, in NYC recently an Office building/skyscraper which sold for $250M a few years ago recently was auctioned for $3.5M.  Call it $5M for EZ calculation.  To gut this building down to the steel framework I'll estimate at $1M, or you could just implode it and start from scratch.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-33494787.

I'll estimate you could slip in 20 units/floor over 10 floors for 200 affordable housing unis.  Cost of construction for the scaffold I'll estimate at $3M, which again I think is high.  So, $20K/unit X 200 units = $5M + $4M + $3M = $12M for the 200 people comes to $60K/homeless person/project.  If you estimate generously there are 10M people in need of affordable housing, this cost total is just $6B of the $20B spent on the stupid Fusion Reactor which will never work.  Note also this is not free housing, just AFFORDABLE, and the people mostly have to pay $60K for a unit.  It's revenue generating, unlike the Fusion White Elephant, which is just a Money Pit.  Will this ever be done?  Of course not.    Fusion Power is a Billionaire's Wet Dream.  Highly centralized and expensive, it's ideal for monopolization if it ever was succassfuuly developed, which it won't.  Wasting the money though helps the billionaire class also, by keeping J6P_enslaved in grunt jobs building Pyramids to their greatness.

So it goes.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/03/is-the-dream-of-nuclear-fusion-dead-why-the-international-experimental-reactor-is-in-big-trouble

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