Why do you think that? The use of higher temperature superconductors is stated to significantly reduce size and construction time so you don't have to wait 30 years for ITER.
Q>10 is one thing, being able to sustain that for useful periods, cheap fuel, accessible tritium) radioactive waste and not having to rebuild the reactor every few years are far more difficult problems.
Why do you think that? The use of higher temperature superconductors is stated to significantly reduce size and construction time so you don't have to wait 30 years for ITER.
Q>10 is one thing, being able to sustain that for useful periods, cheap fuel, accessible tritium) radioactive waste and not having to rebuild the reactor every few years are far more difficult problems.
If estimates on fusion were reliable we would have had cold fusion in 1970. They can move faster but there are so many unknown unknowns.
Right, but they weren't building these sort of functioning scaled down demonstrators in the 70s
Is there even a theoretical model that suggests cold fusion could occur?
I hope they can do it, but I will eat a shoe and post it to this website if they hit Q>10 by 2027