{"id":142276,"date":"2022-07-16T02:24:56","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T07:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/nuclear-fusion-gets-closer-to-reality-with-this-new-reactor"},"modified":"2022-07-16T02:24:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T07:24:56","slug":"nuclear-fusion-gets-closer-to-reality-with-this-new-reactor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/nuclear-fusion-gets-closer-to-reality-with-this-new-reactor","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear fusion gets closer to reality with this new reactor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nuclear-fusion-gets-closer-to-reality-with-this-new-reactor3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This article is an installment of The Future Explored, a weekly guide to world-changing technology. You can get stories like this one straight to your inbox every Thursday morning by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/its-the-news-reimagined\">subscribing here<\/a>.<\/em><\/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\/HvMyVZjZZ7c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If nuclear fusion was a viable energy source, everything could be electrified. Electricity would be so cheap that projects that seem impossible now could be within our grasp, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HvMyVZjZZ7c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">commercial space flights<\/a>, desalinating<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/videos\/growing-food-with-seawater\"> sea water<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/videos\/carbon-capture-technology\">direct air carbon capture.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers from MIT say nuclear fusion \u2014 the power source of the sun itself \u2014 could become a reality by 2035, thanks to a new compact reactor called Sparc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is an installment of The Future Explored, a weekly guide to world-changing technology. You can get stories like this one straight to your inbox every Thursday morning by subscribing here. If nuclear fusion was a viable energy source, everything could be electrified. Electricity would be so cheap that projects that seem impossible now [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142276","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}