>>13203273>Boiling Water?Yes.
And steam turbines only get % efficiencies in the mid 40s at best so you would need a fusion reactor that outputs 2 to 2.5 times the input energy (assuming all of the fusion energy gets captured and converted to heat) to be equivalent to just using the input energy directly.
That is a really expensive/complicated short.
You need to go well beyond that energy multiplication to make the thing pay for itself over its lifetime (cost of construction, cost of fuel, cost of maintenance, cost of paying workers, etc.)
We're still trying to break even and we can't keep them running very long right now.
I think ITER is aiming for 10x in 2035.
