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Originally Posted by Ostfriese
In short for those who aren't good enough at German:
While at the core the experiment successfully released more energy than was put into it this is not true for the entire experiment. To put 2.05 MJ into it (getting out 3.15 MJ) the lasers require about 322 MJ of energy (which have been left out of the calculation alltogether).
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Isn't the point to acheive sustained output after start up in the end? This at least shows that is possble to engineer now.
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