{"id":130998,"date":"2021-11-21T06:22:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T14:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/what-a-fusion-breakthrough-means-for-the-future-of-clean-energy"},"modified":"2021-11-21T06:22:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T14:22:38","slug":"what-a-fusion-breakthrough-means-for-the-future-of-clean-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/what-a-fusion-breakthrough-means-for-the-future-of-clean-energy","title":{"rendered":"What a fusion breakthrough means for the future of clean energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yixhyPN0r3g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have been experimenting with the creation of nuclear energy for decades and have used nuclear fission \u2014 the process of breaking atoms apart \u2014 to power everything from devasting atomic bombs to clean nuclear energy.<\/p>\n<p>However, this kind of nuclear energy is different from cosmic inspired nuclear fusion in one significant way: it\u2019s not self-sustaining. Creating enough energy on Earth to power this kind of reaction has been just out of reach for decades.<\/p>\n<p>But that could soon be changing. First reported in August 2021, nuclear scientists from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/science\/fusion-generators\">National Ignition Facility<\/a> (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have come closer than ever before to prove that self-sustaining nuclear fusion \u2014 or fusion ignition \u2014 is really possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have been experimenting with the creation of nuclear energy for decades and have used nuclear fission \u2014 the process of breaking atoms apart \u2014 to power everything from devasting atomic bombs to clean nuclear energy. However, this kind of nuclear energy is different from cosmic inspired nuclear fusion in one significant way: it\u2019s not [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,873,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-nuclear-energy","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130998","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}