How many Fusion Power Plants to power humanity?

In summary: The chain reaction starts and it keeps going and going and going. And it's like, BOOM, you get energy out.In fusion, the fuel is put into a doughnut-shaped device, and the doughnut is then put inside the magnetic field. ... energy is released when the parts of the doughnut that are closer to the magnets start to heat up.
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