And hot fusion actually exists in trillions of stars across the universe.
So, for all the hundreds of $billions we have spent on controlled hot fusion (CHF), the take-home is that we can go outside and look at the sun? We could look at the sun well before those $billions were spent. We got basically nothing.
Today, after 60 years of research, we “might” have overunity for a billionth of a second in CHF. We’re far away from Ignition. But in Cold Fusion, we’ve had overunity for 23 years, and ignition for the same amount of time.