[Brett66]

I don't think they're anywhere near break-even with it. The exciting thing about this is that they've done this on a cheap table-top device which suggests it will be several orders of magnitude cheaper and easier to get energy from this process than the huge tokomaks that the multi-nation ITER will ever be able to approach.

[AntiGuv]

OK, now I completely understand. Thanks!

[CasearianDaoist]

I wonder if ITER will ever reach breakeven. I think that we will regret our involvement with ITER - it will be the ISS debacle writ large. We should upgrade existing facilities and plan out for sprialling in sml.l.er reactors when and if we see results. ITER looks like another EU disaster to me.