{"id":152742,"date":"2022-12-13T13:26:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T19:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/physicists-say-new-breakthrough-proves-fusion-power-is-possible"},"modified":"2022-12-13T13:26:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T19:26:07","slug":"physicists-say-new-breakthrough-proves-fusion-power-is-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/physicists-say-new-breakthrough-proves-fusion-power-is-possible","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Say New Breakthrough Proves Fusion Power Is Possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-say-new-breakthrough-proves-fusion-power-is-possible2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/13\/science\/nuclear-fusion-energy-breakthrough.html\" class=\"\">claim to have achieved<\/a> the seemingly impossible: generate more energy with a fusion reaction than they put into it, potentially paving the way for a truly environmentally friendly and safe source of power.<\/p>\n<p>Their experiment, which involved using the \u201c<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/lasers.llnl.gov\/content\/assets\/docs\/news\/visitors_brochure2.pdf\">world\u2019s largest and highest energy laser system<\/a>\u201d at Livermore\u2019s National Ignition Facility to blast light at small capsules of deuterium-tritium fuel, generated 20 percent more energy than the amount required to power the system.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the modest energy output \u2014 the system generated enough power to boil <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-60312633\">around two to three kettles<\/a> \u2014 the researchers are boldly predicting that it could represent a major turning point in the quest to turn fusion energy into a reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory claim to have achieved the seemingly impossible: generate more energy with a fusion reaction than they put into it, potentially paving the way for a truly environmentally friendly and safe source of power. Their experiment, which involved using the \u201cworld\u2019s largest and highest energy laser system\u201d at Livermore\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152742","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\/152742","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}