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The fusion power experiment at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California used 2 megajoules of energy to produce 3 megajoules, or a factor of 1.5 in energy gain. What sort of factor of energy gain would be reasonable for a commercial power plant to be viable?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/askscience

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