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If "laser ICF" won't be applicable to power generation then MCF won't either because they haven't even done ignition yet, might as well pack up and do something useful with your life.

My point is that if the scheme that did step 1 is useless the scheme that can't even muster step 1 is even more so useless.

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The difference is ignition/break-even in MCF gets you 90% of the way to being able to actually generate power. ITER will get you something like a q of 10 for ten minutes. An indirect ICF like this experiment at the NIF needs to be replicate ignition a million times a day at two magnitudes greater efficiency.

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