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Particle accelerators?

Those I think serve a good purpose. We can discover the universe one atom smashed at a time.

It's non-profit and would not exist without external funding.

The discussion is more about businesses I think.

ITER and cold fussion. Its either impossible (my opinion) or far too early. ITER itself will not even produce single watt of electricity. Its PoC for net positive energy gain from cold fussion (we will see...)

ITER has nothing to do with cold fusion. And all cold fusion attempts so far ended up as scams.

The Human Brain Project comes to mind.