{"id":120053,"date":"2021-03-01T09:23:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T17:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/decarbonizing-us-energy-an-aggressive-market-driven-model-for-fusion-power-development"},"modified":"2021-03-01T09:23:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T17:23:12","slug":"decarbonizing-us-energy-an-aggressive-market-driven-model-for-fusion-power-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/decarbonizing-us-energy-an-aggressive-market-driven-model-for-fusion-power-development","title":{"rendered":"Decarbonizing US Energy: An Aggressive Market-Driven Model for Fusion Power Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/decarbonizing-us-energy-an-aggressive-market-driven-model-for-fusion-power-development2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>National Academies study says fusion can help decarbonize US energy, calls for public-private approach to pilot plant operation by 2035\u201340.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Electricity generated by fusion power plants could play an important role in decarbonizing the U.S. energy sector by mid-century, says a new consensus study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nap.edu\/resource\/25991\/RH-fusionpilotplant.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, which also lays out for the first time a set of technical, economic, and regulatory standards and a timeline for a U.S. fusion pilot plant that would begin producing energy in the 2035\u201340 time frame.<\/p>\n<p>To achieve this key step toward commercialization, the report calls for an aggressive public-private effort to produce by 2028 a pilot plant design that can, when built, accommodate any of the developmental approaches seeking to realize fusion\u2019s potential as a safe, carbon-free, on-demand energy source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Academies study says fusion can help decarbonize US energy, calls for public-private approach to pilot plant operation by 2035\u201340. Electricity generated by fusion power plants could play an important role in decarbonizing the U.S. energy sector by mid-century, says a new consensus study report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,39,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-economics","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120053","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=120053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}