It doesn't get you anywhere to compare numbers between research and industry because ITER won't even generate electricity to the grid.

I'm merely saying that if we have $20 billion laying around you can imagine the practical route of powering the Bay Area completely on renewables right now.

How many $20 billion experiments are we away from fusion reaching those numbers?

And also, why not expand Fission production. We have 5000 years of global energy powering Uranium fuel supply in the oceans. Power everything with nuclear and you have a cool 1000-2000 years of no scarcity to figure out Fusion.