This Could Be Important

So of course we will pour blood and treasure into the sands of Mesopotamia rather than fund this.

Someone, somewhere will make this work. I'm betting Japan, which has no oil resources of its own to speak of. Maybe China, but they seem focused on coal at the moment, bringing one or two new power stations on line every week. But certainly not here: trillions for war; a pittance for energy independence.

It doesn't look like it will be Britain, either. It seems a math error will force the closure of several research labs. The once great British empire. Nice to know that we won't be walking the road to irrelevance alone.