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My layman's understanding:

There has never been a net-positive-energy magnetic confinement fusion experiment. Inertial confinement fusion has had 2 events that were "more energy out of the fuel than delivered to the fuel." But is still about a factor of 100 away from what is needed for "more electricity in than out"




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