Unless this is a different experiment than from a few weeks ago i remember watching a press briefing where the white coat said they input .5MW, and achieved an output of 1.5MW, albeit for like a few micro seconds (10^-6 seconds), but i think he also said their ignition pulse was in the hundreds of nano seconds. So very energy positive, just not sustained for any real world application
derKonigsten t1_j3u7bxy wrote
Reply to comment by saltyhasp in After 50 years, fusion power hits a major milestone by Possible-Judgment-39
Unless this is a different experiment than from a few weeks ago i remember watching a press briefing where the white coat said they input .5MW, and achieved an output of 1.5MW, albeit for like a few micro seconds (10^-6 seconds), but i think he also said their ignition pulse was in the hundreds of nano seconds. So very energy positive, just not sustained for any real world application