You have to admit that there is something to this meme, It seems like Fusion suffers from a lack of focus and direction. Ive heard all sorts of horror stories a

You have to admit that there is something to this meme, It seems like Fusion suffers from a lack of focus and direction. Ive heard all sorts of horror stories about physicists and engineers going off on fusion design tangents that pull funding away from more viable designs as far as energy-in/energy-out. I understand that there is a level of experimentation and R&D that is guaranteed not to generate viable results but at some point you need to trim the fat, get everyone moving in one direction etc. This grand project has been going on for over 50 years at this point, It seems like we should at least have one design that everyone should be focusing on. If they had real, defined commercial goals (even if they miss the goals) it might be easier to secure funding because your average politician would see the benefit to them. I'm not a nuclear engineer so take that all with a grain of salt.