I heard the ITER could achieve Q = 10, what about the engineering (actual) Q?

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If the engineering Q is greater than 1.1 or so, does that mean the fusion problem has been theoretically solved?
 
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zheng89120 said:
If the engineering Q is greater than 1.1 or so, does that mean the fusion problem has been theoretically solved?

I believe so.
 
zheng89120 said:
If the engineering Q is greater than 1.1 or so, does that mean the fusion problem has been theoretically solved?

The enormous investment alone should have told you that. No-one gets a blank check (15 billion dollars spent so far) just to play with magnets. ITER is as big a deal as the Fermi pile was in its day. Bigger, actually.
 
When fusion is working with net energy gain, it still needs to be able to compete economically. For that, we'll probably need a Q considerably greater than 1.1