Certainly a cool achievement and something to be proud of. Maybe even a very important step towards real usable fusion power plants. But: > The facility’s las

Certainly a cool achievement and something to be proud of. Maybe even a very important step towards real usable fusion power plants. But: > The facility’s laser system is enormously inefficient, and more than 99% of the energy that goes into a single ignition attempt is lost before it can reach the target. So it's still two orders of magnitude off hitting break even. And that's without a suitable device to actually capture the released energy and it does not account for pellet production. For all we know, it might very well be three orders of magnitude away from a real powerplant. That being said, making more efficient lasers and working on capturing energy might be more fruitful than trying to improve a Tokamak design. So it's good to have options.