@primonatura

Nope.

Energy required to fire the lasers was way more than released by fusion.

Still a net energy loss by a large margin.

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@SuperMoosie @primonatura

Both are kind of right from my understanding. It's semantics.

Energy put into the lasers > Energy output of the fusion reaction

Energy delivered to the reaction from the lasers < Energy output of the fusion reaction

So the energy from the reaction itself only counting the input and output was a net positive, but the energy used in the experiment as a whole was a net negative.

@BE @primonatura

Agreed.

And they have done a amazing work.

But the idea some people are spreading that soon vasts amounts of electricity will be generated from this fraction of a second reaction, is false.

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