I’m responding to “but I have no idea if any of them are currently attempting Q_total > 1 or not.” My point is that literally nobody is going to set their targ

I’m responding to “but I have no idea if any of them are currently attempting Q_total > 1 or not.” My point is that literally nobody is going to set their target on Q-total > 1 without first setting a target of Q-plasma > 1. It would be like wondering if a rocket company was setting their sights on landing on the moon straight away or if they were going to attempt to escape earth’s atmosphere first. Edit: one might think Q-plasma > 1 is just an internal milestone, not a public goal, but it’s not. Fusion startups are all going to be forced to make a public fuss over Q-plasma > 1 because the amount of funding you need to get from there to Q-total > 1 is MASSIVE and that milestone will be an investor aphrodisiac.