http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8044620.stm
"During fusion experiments, the beams briefly focus 500 trillions watts of power - more than the peak electrical generating power of the entire United States - on to a ball-bearing-sized pellet of hydrogen fuel."
Finally. Probably will be suicide bombed by some OPEC executives, though. We're getting dangerously close to fully functional large scale fusion reactors.