{"id":112493,"date":"2020-09-04T11:26:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T18:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/unexpected-electrical-current-discovered-that-could-stabilize-fusion-reactions-bringing-the-fusion-energy-that-drives-the-sun-to-earth"},"modified":"2020-09-04T11:26:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T18:26:28","slug":"unexpected-electrical-current-discovered-that-could-stabilize-fusion-reactions-bringing-the-fusion-energy-that-drives-the-sun-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/unexpected-electrical-current-discovered-that-could-stabilize-fusion-reactions-bringing-the-fusion-energy-that-drives-the-sun-to-earth","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected Electrical Current Discovered That Could Stabilize Fusion Reactions \u2013 Bringing the Fusion Energy That Drives the Sun to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unexpected-electrical-current-discovered-that-could-stabilize-fusion-reactions-bringing-the-fusion-energy-that-drives-the-sun-to-earth3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Electric current is everywhere, from powering homes to controlling the plasma that fuels fusion reactions to possibly giving rise to vast cosmic magnetic fields. Now, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have found that electrical currents can form in ways not known before. The novel findings could give researchers greater ability to bring the fusion energy that drives the sun and stars to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very important to understand which processes produce electrical currents in plasma and which phenomena could interfere with them,\u201d said Ian Ochs, graduate student in Princeton Universitys Program in Plasma Physics and lead author of a paper selected as a featured article in <em>Physics of Plasmas<\/em>. \u201cThey are the primary tool we use to control plasma in magnetic fusion research.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric current is everywhere, from powering homes to controlling the plasma that fuels fusion reactions to possibly giving rise to vast cosmic magnetic fields. Now, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have found that electrical currents can form in ways not known before. The novel findings could give [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112493","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=112493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}