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| Why Isn't the US Government Funding Research? |
| from the we-got-all-the-science-we-need dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 11, @00:30 (The Almighty Buc|
| http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/10/2317238 |
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thesandbender writes "The recent post about GM opening its own battery
research facility led me to wonder why the US government is pouring
billions into buying companies instead of heavily funding useful
research. You can give $10 billion to a company to squander or you can
invest $10 billion into a battery research and just give the findings to
the whole of the US industry for free. From a historical standpoint, the
US government has little experience with commercial enterprise ... but
has an amazing record for driving innovation. The Manhattan Project and
the Apollo moon missions are two of the pinnacles of 20th century
scientific achievement, yet it seems to me that this drive died in the
'70s and that's when the US started its slow decline. To be true to the
'Ask Slashdot' theme, what practical research do you think the US
government should embark upon to get the most return for its citizens and
the world?"
Discuss this story at:
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/06/10/2317238
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