Nuclear fusion has been "on the brink of a milestone" for my entire lifetime. I think I can be forgiven a certain skepticism. Reading about ITER's troubles in d

Nuclear fusion has been "on the brink of a milestone" for my entire lifetime. I think I can be forgiven a certain skepticism. Reading about ITER's troubles in detail over the years, I've come to believe that there is a mechanism where fusion can self-assemble, stabilize, and produce a continuous, reliable usable feed of energy at scale, only occasionally resulting in catastrophic failure. It's called a "star." Attempting to stabilize and contain the process and exploit the process at a smaller scale honestly does not seem feasible to me at this point.