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Isn't this similar to the monetary meaning of the word turnover? Like turnover : profit <==> energy turnover : net energy output?

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Possibly the poster is from a country like America where "turnover" is not a preferred term to refer to gross receipts of a business. (Americans typically use "revenue" instead.)

I am indeed from the US and had never heard "turnover" to mean gross receipts.

I'm also from the US and recently had an apple turnover. It was delicious.

I lost money on the endeavor, though.

So when this had a turnover of 1.3 GJ (361 kWh), was that with a net loss in the end? How much electricity did they put in?

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"

The 1.3 GJ is how much electricity they put in. There is no fusion reaction or energy production, it's just an experimental device to study plasma containment.

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