Executive Director John Tierney spoke with Undark about directed energy research.
Academic researchers like Schamiloglu, though, are working on solving those problems. And according to Harrison and Richardson, the need for that kind of basic research is keeping directed energy funding stable. That’s not true of funding for other fields of science. “You look to where you’re going to get a grant to keep open your laboratory, whether you’re at a university or a company — whatever,” added John Tierney, former congressman and current executive director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. “If the military is where the money is, that’s probably where you’re focusing your grant application. And you’re hoping it’s going to have some spinoff great effect for society as a whole, or whatever story you tell yourself, so that you do that.” Read more
