Aeronaut wrote: The higher percentage of fusion products that can be used productively leads to the greater efficiency.
So this gets us back to the appropriate use of the term “breakeven”. I was presuming that when the press release said “The fusion energy yields achieved in these experiments are still far less than the energy used to run the machines”, it meant that the total amount of energy produced, whether theoretically capturable or not, was still below input energy (especially since we don’t yet know how much energy a FoFu machine will recover in practice). Perhaps Dr. Lerner can clarify.
