{"id":106161,"date":"2020-04-28T07:53:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T14:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/scientists-think-well-finally-solve-nuclear-fusion-thanks-to-cutting-edge-ai"},"modified":"2020-04-28T07:53:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T14:53:56","slug":"scientists-think-well-finally-solve-nuclear-fusion-thanks-to-cutting-edge-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/scientists-think-well-finally-solve-nuclear-fusion-thanks-to-cutting-edge-ai","title":{"rendered":"Scientists think we\u2019ll finally solve nuclear fusion thanks to cutting-edge AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-think-well-finally-solve-nuclear-fusion-thanks-to-cutting-edge-ai2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists believe the world will see it\u2019s first working thermonuclear fusion reactor by the year 2025. That\u2019s a tall order in short form, especially when you consider that fusion has been \u201calmost here\u201d for nearly a century.<\/p>\n<p>Fusion reactors \u2013 not to be confused with common fission reactors \u2013 are the holiest of Grails when it comes to physics achievements. According to most experts, a successful fusion reactor would function as a near-unlimited source of energy.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, if there\u2019s a working demonstration of an actual fusion reactor by 2025, we could see an end to the global energy crisis <a href=\"https:\/\/science.osti.gov\/-\/media\/fes\/pdf\/workshop-reports\/FES_ASCR_Machine_Learning_Report.pdf?la%3Den%26hash%3D27C6DA2A9A92F884DC618FCB928A89F4C39BD764\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">within a few decades<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists believe the world will see it\u2019s first working thermonuclear fusion reactor by the year 2025. That\u2019s a tall order in short form, especially when you consider that fusion has been \u201calmost here\u201d for nearly a century. Fusion reactors \u2013 not to be confused with common fission reactors \u2013 are the holiest of Grails when [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,219,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106161","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}