I wouldn't blame anyone for reading that press release and thinking that all that's needed to get power generation is to hook it up to a generator. The press r

I wouldn't blame anyone for reading that press release and thinking that all that's needed to get power generation is to hook it up to a generator. The press release makes no mention of the fact that we do not have efficient enough generators to turn the heat energy into net-positive electricity generation. And not for lack of investment, because more efficient generators would save millions in fossil fuel costs as well. It also makes no mention of the fact that the laser system required somewhere between 100MJ and 300MJ for ignition on a reaction that only lasted a fraction of a second; with no clear path of scaling that reaction up so that it would actually produce more heat energy than was required for ignition. I think that would be important information for a layman to understand what was and what wasn't achieved here.