{"id":102789,"date":"2020-02-24T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T02:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/patents-secured-for-revolutionary-nuclear-fusion-technology"},"modified":"2020-02-24T18:03:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T02:03:00","slug":"patents-secured-for-revolutionary-nuclear-fusion-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/patents-secured-for-revolutionary-nuclear-fusion-technology","title":{"rendered":"Patents Secured for Revolutionary Nuclear Fusion Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/patents-secured-for-revolutionary-nuclear-fusion-technology2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists in Australia are making some astonishing claims about a new nuclear reactor technology. Startup HB11, which spun out of the University of New South Wales, has applied for and received patents in the U.S., Japan, and China so far. The company\u2019s technology uses lasers to trigger a nuclear fusion reaction in hydrogen and boron\u2014purportedly with no radioactive fuel required. The secret is a cutting-edge laser and, well, an element of luck.<\/p>\n<p>The laser doesn\u2019t heat the materials. Instead, it speeds up the hydrogen to the point where it (hopefully) collides with the boron to begin a reaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists in Australia are making some astonishing claims about a new nuclear reactor technology. Startup HB11, which spun out of the University of New South Wales, has applied for and received patents in the U.S., Japan, and China so far. The company\u2019s technology uses lasers to trigger a nuclear fusion reaction in hydrogen and boron\u2014purportedly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}