{"id":131666,"date":"2021-12-02T21:22:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T05:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/fusion-energy-could-be-a-reality-in-less-than-5-years"},"modified":"2021-12-02T21:22:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T05:22:40","slug":"fusion-energy-could-be-a-reality-in-less-than-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/fusion-energy-could-be-a-reality-in-less-than-5-years","title":{"rendered":"Fusion Energy Could Be a Reality in Less Than 5 Years"},"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\/JIQbo1kI3-s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SPARC is aiming to be the first experimental device to achieve an energy-positive fusion reaction. New research suggests that this goal may soon be within reach.<br \/> \u00bb Subscribe to Seeker! <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/subscribeseeker\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/subscribeseeker<\/a>.<br \/> \u00bb Watch more Elements! <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/ElementsPlaylist\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/ElementsPlaylist<\/a>.<br \/> \u00bb Visit our shop at <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.seeker.com\">http:\/\/shop.seeker.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With construction slated to begin in spring 2021, the team predicts it could be built within 3 to 4 years from that. Their goal is to achieve a Q factor of at least 2, basically meaning SPARC will pump out twice the energy needed to power it.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, by the calculations in their papers, SPARC could possibly achieve a Q ratio of 10! But the researchers are cautious about overpromising, and are just focused on achieving the lower figure.<br \/> It\u2019s still impressive, considering any net gain would be a first for human created controlled fusion.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming it gets built along that predicted 3\u20134 year timeline and actually gets flipped on, there\u2019s still several steps between SPARC and limitless clean energy.<\/p>\n<p>#sparc #climatechange #fusion #technology #physics.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve Long Waited for Fusion. This Reactor May Finally Deliver It\u2014Fast.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/fusion-energy-could-be-a-reality-in-less-than-5-years\">Continue reading \u201cFusion Energy Could Be a Reality in Less Than 5 Years\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPARC is aiming to be the first experimental device to achieve an energy-positive fusion reaction. New research suggests that this goal may soon be within reach. \u00bb Subscribe to Seeker! http:\/\/bit.ly\/subscribeseeker. \u00bb Watch more Elements! http:\/\/bit.ly\/ElementsPlaylist. \u00bb Visit our shop at http:\/\/shop.seeker.com. With construction slated to begin in spring 2021, the team predicts it could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131666","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=131666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}