Fair point, I'm just going by the article: > The fusion reaction at the US government facility produced about 2.5 megajoules of energy, which was about 120 per

Fair point, I'm just going by the article: > The fusion reaction at the US government facility produced about 2.5 megajoules of energy, which was about 120 per cent of the 2.1 megajoules of energy in the lasers I guess we'll see how things develop. But from a quick google, 2.1 megajoules is about what the lasers deliver, unless they've significantly increased their power recently.