[leephillips]

That won’t work, I don’t think. You can’t make the pellets much larger because laser nonuniformities and hydrodynamic instabilities will kill the implosion; there will be no fusion at all. But that’s not a problem, you see, because in a commercial reactor you’ll have a pellet factory making the required one million targets per day, and they will be injected into the chamber 10 times per second, with practically no down time. And each shot will have gain > 100 to get net energy out.

[b33j0r]

That’s pretty much what this design would require for continuous operation.

But I cannot tell if this comment is being facetious or rather optimistic. Therefore, I’ll agree!