as for the Fusion story, it's actually false news. Yes they managed to get 3.55Mj from 2Mj of lazer power used, but the power used to activate those 2Mj lasers were 1000 times more power than the reaction was able to put out. We still have a very long way to go.,(reply>), The reason being that they don’t see it as a problem. Research suggests that they will be able to get a 100+MJ output from the same experiment with tuning. The lasers used in the experiment had zero thought about into being efficient. The design was created in the late 90s, finalized in 2001, and complete in 2009. It was intended to be an all-encompassing experiment platform. If they were to design it again and build a new one, they’d get a 20-30% efficiency gain just by using new tech. So yeah, it’s 15-20 years off from being industrialized but that’s well within our lifetime.,(reply>), @SwiftMasstermind It's an issue in the framing of the result, which even the research team talked about in their comments.  To provide that 2MJ, they had to use a lot more power, but they framed it as reaction output vs the laser discharge.<br><br>It would be like saying I spent $100 on $150 of stuff, but I didn't mention the $100 I spent was actually from points purchased for $10k,(reply>), That's not really the fault of the fusion reaction, but an issue with the efficiency of the lasers, isn't it? The fact is that 2MJ went into the deuterium and tritium and more came out.