{"id":116731,"date":"2020-12-05T20:22:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T04:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/china-just-turned-on-its-artificial-sun"},"modified":"2020-12-05T20:22:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T04:22:16","slug":"china-just-turned-on-its-artificial-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/china-just-turned-on-its-artificial-sun","title":{"rendered":"China Just Turned On Its Artificial Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-just-turned-on-its-artificial-sun.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now that EAST has switched on for what its makers say is the real deal, the project has a lot to prove. It costs a huge amount of energy input to bring a tokamak reactor\u2019s entire assembly up to speed. If a fusion reactor can\u2019t easily outpace that input, it will never produce power, let alone the dream of virtually limitless power that fusion proponents have sold for decades.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>China has switched on its record-setting \u201cartificial sun\u201d tokamak, state media reported today. This begins a timeline China hopes will be similar to the one planned by the global International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project.<\/p>\n<p>\u2622\ufe0f You love nuclear. So do we. Let\u2019s nerd out over nuclear together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that EAST has switched on for what its makers say is the real deal, the project has a lot to prove. It costs a huge amount of energy input to bring a tokamak reactor\u2019s entire assembly up to speed. If a fusion reactor can\u2019t easily outpace that input, it will never produce power, let [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116731","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}