WX-7: "purpose is to advance stellarator technology, though this experimental reactor will not produce electricity, it is used to evaluate the main components

WX-7: "purpose is to advance stellarator technology, though this experimental reactor will not produce electricity, it is used to evaluate the main components of a future fusion power plant" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendelstein_7-X https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendelstein_7-X To compare, even ITER, international nuclear fusion research and engineering megaproject, initiated in 1988 (!) will also not produce any electrical energy: "ITER will not capture the energy it produces as electricity, but—as first of all fusion experiments in history to produce net energy gain—it will prepare the way for the machine that can." https://www.iter.org/proj/inafewlines https://www.iter.org/proj/inafewlines The net energy "gained" in ITER experiment, if it achieves that much, will be just "vented to the atmosphere." The other experiments don't even expect to have any gain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER The smallest possible promise is, of course, that the money received "enables the Company to formally launch the program" as in the "news" here: https://generalfusion.com/2019/12/general-fusion-closes-65m-of-series-e-financing/ https://generalfusion.com/2019/12/general-fusion-closes-65m-...