{"id":10405,"date":"2014-03-20T09:34:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T16:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10405"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:08:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:08:45","slug":"the-future-may-be-getting-close-to-reality-in-vancouver-with-d-wave-and-general-fusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/the-future-may-be-getting-close-to-reality-in-vancouver-with-d-wave-and-general-fusion","title":{"rendered":"The Future May Be Getting Close to Reality in Vancouver, With D-Wave and General Fusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Liz Gannes \u2014 Re\/Code<br \/>\n<br \/> Vancouver is a land of scenic harbors, tall mountains and startups trying to harness the limits of physics.<\/p>\n<p>In town for the TED conference, I had the occasion to visit two such companies yesterday: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwavesys.com\/\">D-Wave<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.generalfusion.com\/\">General Fusion<\/a>. D-Wave, a quantum computing company, is all about the very cold and the rather tiny. It has built enormous refrigerators that each house a single chip, laced with \u201cqubits\u201d that can be in the superposition of both 1 and 0 at the same time and can carry an electric current with no resistance at low temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, General Fusion is all about huge and hot. The company is putting together the pieces for an alpha version of a nuclear reactor plant that would use magnetized target fusion. That is, it slams together hydrogen atoms by shooting donut-shaped electrified plasma into a chamber where it\u2019s squished by synchronized pistons from all angles. This happens at a temperature of 150 million degrees. The point: To create clean and cheap energy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/recode.net\/2014\/03\/18\/the-future-may-be-getting-close-to-reality-in-vancouver-with-d-wave-and-general-fusion\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Liz Gannes \u2014 Re\/Code Vancouver is a land of scenic harbors, tall mountains and startups trying to harness the limits of physics. In town for the TED conference, I had the occasion to visit two such companies yesterday: D-Wave and General Fusion. D-Wave, a quantum computing company, is all about the very cold and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10405","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65013,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10405\/revisions\/65013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}