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by greggarious 1277 days ago
Is ~30% what other sources achieve?
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Other sources can do better but the problem of transferring heat from plasma erupting in a vacuum chamber lined with mirrors seems really hard to me compared to the problem you have in a natural gas power plant, say, so I'd expect even a well developed laser pulse fusion power plant to have a lower efficiency.