{"id":144451,"date":"2022-08-19T19:22:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T00:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/surprising-attractiveness-of-hurdle-to-developing-safe-clean-and-carbon-free-energy"},"modified":"2022-08-19T19:22:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T00:22:25","slug":"surprising-attractiveness-of-hurdle-to-developing-safe-clean-and-carbon-free-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/surprising-attractiveness-of-hurdle-to-developing-safe-clean-and-carbon-free-energy","title":{"rendered":"Surprising attractiveness of hurdle to developing safe, clean and carbon-free energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/surprising-attractiveness-of-hurdle-to-developing-safe-clean-and-carbon-free-energy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered the remarkable impact of reversing a standard method for combatting a key obstacle to producing fusion energy on Earth. Theorists at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have proposed doing precisely the opposite of the prescribed procedure to sharply improve future results.<\/p>\n<p><b>Tearing holes in plasma<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The problem, called \u201clocked tearing modes,\u201d occurs in all today\u2019s tokamaks, doughnut-shaped magnetic facilities designed to create and control the virtually unlimited fusion power that drives the sun and stars. The instability-caused modes rotate with the hot, charged <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/plasma\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">plasma <\/a>\u2014 the fourth state of matter composed of free electrons and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/atomic+nuclei\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">atomic nuclei<\/a> that fuels <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/fusion+reactions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fusion reactions <\/a>\u2014and tear holes called islands in the magnetic field that confines the gas, allowing the leakage of key heat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered the remarkable impact of reversing a standard method for combatting a key obstacle to producing fusion energy on Earth. Theorists at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have proposed doing precisely the opposite of the prescribed procedure to sharply improve future results. Tearing holes in plasma The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144451","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}