{"id":121390,"date":"2021-04-09T21:23:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T04:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/tae-reaches-hot-enough-plasma-milestone"},"modified":"2021-04-09T21:23:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T04:23:51","slug":"tae-reaches-hot-enough-plasma-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/tae-reaches-hot-enough-plasma-milestone","title":{"rendered":"TAE reaches \u2018hot enough\u2019 plasma milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tae-reaches-hot-enough-plasma-milestone.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>TAE Technologies, the California, USA-based fusion energy technology company, has announced that its proprietary beam-driven field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasma generator has produced stable plasma at over 50 million degrees Celsius. The milestone has helped the company raise USD280 million in additional funding.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Norman \u2014 TAE\u2019s USD150 million National Laboratory-scale device named after company founder, the late Norman Rostoker \u2014 was unveiled in May 2017 and reached first plasma in June of that year. The device achieved the latest milestone as part of a \u201cwell-choreographed sequence of campaigns\u201d consisting of over 25000 fully-integrated fusion reactor core experiments. These experiments were optimised with the most advanced computing processes available, including machine learning from an ongoing collaboration with Google (which produced the Optometrist Algorithm) and processing power from the US Department of Energy\u2019s INCITE programme that leverages exascale-level computing.<\/p>\n<p>Plasma must be hot enough to enable sufficiently forceful collisions to cause fusion and sustain itself long enough to harness the power at will. These are known as the \u2018hot enough\u2019 and \u2018long enough\u2019 milestone. TAE said it had proved the \u2018long enough\u2019 component in 2015, after more than 100000 experiments. A year later, the company began building Norman, its fifth-generation device, to further test plasma temperature increases in pursuit of \u2018hot enough\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAE Technologies, the California, USA-based fusion energy technology company, has announced that its proprietary beam-driven field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasma generator has produced stable plasma at over 50 million degrees Celsius. The milestone has helped the company raise USD280 million in additional funding. Norman \u2014 TAE\u2019s USD150 million National Laboratory-scale device named after company founder, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,873,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-nuclear-energy","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121390","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=121390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}