Stellerator Fusion Reactor

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The sawing goes that a working Fusion reactor is always 20 years away from becoming reality.  I still haven't understood why this is such a slow process.  However, after not looking at Fusion reactor development for at least the past 10 years, I took a look today & found that something was recently announced as late as yesterday:  A new type of Tokamak reactor called a Stellerator built in Germany that works:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a24172/fusion-reactor-working/

However, at the end of it, even though it works, states it uses more energy that it produces.  Irony.  Also, it seems to violate Occam's Razor.  Nothing elegant about this solution.  So it appears the Fusion Reactor is still 20 years away.  Eventually, whenever they come online, it'll feel as if they've always been here.  It would be interesting to see this monument of human invention come to pass in our lifetime.