{"id":120247,"date":"2021-03-05T11:23:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T19:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/old-assumption-invalidated-controlling-fusion-plasma-and-plasma-turbulence"},"modified":"2021-03-05T11:23:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T19:23:01","slug":"old-assumption-invalidated-controlling-fusion-plasma-and-plasma-turbulence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/old-assumption-invalidated-controlling-fusion-plasma-and-plasma-turbulence","title":{"rendered":"Old Assumption Invalidated: Controlling Fusion Plasma and Plasma Turbulence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/old-assumption-invalidated-controlling-fusion-plasma-and-plasma-turbulence.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>After his PhD thesis invalidates an old assumption, Norman Cao wonders what\u2019s next.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat are some challenges in controlling plasma and what are your solutions? What is the most effective type of fusion device? What are some difficulties in sustaining fusion conditions? What are some obstacles to receiving fusion funding?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the past four years, graduate student Norman Cao \u201915 PhD \u201920 has been the Plasma Science and Fusion Center\u2019s (PSFC\u2019s) go-to \u201canswer man,\u201d replying to questions like these emailed by students and members of the general public interested in getting a deeper understanding of fusion and its potential as a future energy source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After his PhD thesis invalidates an old assumption, Norman Cao wonders what\u2019s next. \u201cWhat are some challenges in controlling plasma and what are your solutions? What is the most effective type of fusion device? What are some difficulties in sustaining fusion conditions? What are some obstacles to receiving fusion funding?\u201d For the past four years, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120247","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=120247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}