Kind of.. It's like saying you used a 1% efficient 100HP pump to start a water wheel that eventually was outputting 1.5HP of power. We know how to make more eff

Kind of.. It's like saying you used a 1% efficient 100HP pump to start a water wheel that eventually was outputting 1.5HP of power. We know how to make more efficient pumps, so it's not terribly interesting that it took 100HP of power to generate the 1.5HP -- the fact that only 1HP of output power was actually used to start the 1.5HP reaction is the big deal.