{"id":150294,"date":"2022-11-15T20:38:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T02:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/limitless-nuclear-fusion-energy-is-one-step-closer-thanks-to-burning-plasma-experiment"},"modified":"2022-11-15T20:38:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T02:38:51","slug":"limitless-nuclear-fusion-energy-is-one-step-closer-thanks-to-burning-plasma-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/limitless-nuclear-fusion-energy-is-one-step-closer-thanks-to-burning-plasma-experiment","title":{"rendered":"Limitless nuclear fusion energy is one step closer thanks to burning plasma experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/limitless-nuclear-fusion-energy-is-one-step-closer-thanks-to-burning-plasma-experiment2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We could be a step closer to the commercially viable production of limitless nuclear fusion energy.<\/p>\n<p>A group of nuclear fusion researchers at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) achieved self-heating \u201cburning plasma\u201d for the first time ever in January, bringing commercially viable nuclear fusion one step closer.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a new analysis of the plasma, published in a paper in the journal Nature Physics, reveals surprising new details that could help the scientific community finally achieve the holy grail of nuclear fusion \u2014 net energy production.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>National Ignition Facility.<\/p>\n<p>Nuclear fusion, which mimics the energy-generating method of the Sun and the stars, has the potential to provide practically limitless clean energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We could be a step closer to the commercially viable production of limitless nuclear fusion energy. A group of nuclear fusion researchers at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) achieved self-heating \u201cburning plasma\u201d for the first time ever in January, bringing commercially viable nuclear fusion one step closer. Now, a new analysis of the plasma, published [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150294","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\/150294","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}