fusion vs burning hydrogen

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With fusion in the news often, I was wondering what makes it special as opposed to simply burning hydrogen with oxygen like a fuel cell does?

Doesn’t both require the uneconomical electrolysis to source the hydrogen in the first place?

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Burning a big tank’s worth of hydrogen lets you drive around for a good while in a car.

Fusing a big tank’s worth of hydrogen is [this](https://youtu.be/Q3ezhvCzWCM?t=23) amount of energy.

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