Yeah. But it goes beyond that. Even in the science, even thinking of not economically viable energy gain but just net energy gain within the reaction, it's kind

Yeah. But it goes beyond that. Even in the science, even thinking of not economically viable energy gain but just net energy gain within the reaction, it's kind of not a real immensely useful result. The "net energy gain" being talked about is technically a breakthrough result we've been expecting for the last half-century. If obtained on a small scale within a continuous reactor it could signal the beginning of true sustaining thermonuclear fusion. However, the result here is not in a continuous (or long-pulse) reactor like a tokamak or stellarator – it is instead in a miniature nuclear bomb in a military researcwhile doing it. h facility focused on nuclear weapons development. We have demonstrated this kind of positive fusion gain on a large scale before, and blown several craters in various indigenous lands while doing it. In fact, the exact same components that exist in the NIF targets exist within nuclear weapons – we just replace the the source of the energy the hohlraum reflects with a bank of lasers. In nuclear devices, it's another nuclear bomb instead. That it works on a smaller scale is not exactly surprising, nor is it useful.