The US Department of Energy is apparently perusing Drexler's APM proposal

buck-nasty · December 25, 2016 at 12:38 AM

https://energy.gov/eere/amo/downl…august-5-6-2015

Drexler talks briefly about his collaboration with the DOE in this talk here

Jim Logajan · December 26, 2016 at 9:48 PM

Drexler mentions that it appears to be progressing at the speed of government. I would expect results in fifteen to twenty years, then.

buck-nasty · December 27, 2016 at 5:21 PM

Indeed, but at least it's something. If they can demonstrate a convincing proof of principle it could start the ball rolling for the rest of industry and public research to pick up the slack.

buck-nasty · January 5, 2017 at 2:19 PM

On January 1st it was announced that the DOE would be funding Drexler's APM proposal http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=7179

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