I know, it was big news about the net gain a few months ago, very close to “ignition”, but the “net gain” was very narrowly defined, measuring the energy of the laser beams themselves versus the energy output of the fusion, and there was a gain if you just looked at that comparison, but it ignored the total electrical power consumption of the laser devices, which was much larger than the fusion output. So there was a breakthrough of sorts but still far away from actual commercial power generation.
But we’ll see. A lot of clever people are working on it.
They are still years and years away. If they are successful, the tough part (not that it hasn’t already been tough) will be to build a practical implementation; a working power plant.
But I am crossing my fingers. We are going to need a lot more juice if everyone is going to be driving around in electric cars.