I was consulting for an insurance company once. they even had examples of some of their employees to get insurance money for broken things, using their internal example pictures….
- missed payments on interests
- failed positive guidance on going-concern
- missed intermediate milestones (b2b contracts basically give you any possibilities legally wise)
Well history in IT repeats itself in cycles. look up #NoEstimates for good and thoughtful content about this topic, and various anecdotes for inspiration. then derive your own conclusions.
there is some fundamental thing that attracts humans to big things.
technical challenges aside, fusion power as a research + building + disvtributil project is so expensive - for the same amount of money we could already build a decentralized solution out of over-abundant solar cells, but it seems looking for the one big thing is still more interesting.