{"id":152788,"date":"2022-12-13T23:28:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T05:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/fusion-breakthrough-is-a-milestone-for-climate-clean-energy"},"modified":"2022-12-13T23:28:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T05:28:27","slug":"fusion-breakthrough-is-a-milestone-for-climate-clean-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/fusion-breakthrough-is-a-milestone-for-climate-clean-energy","title":{"rendered":"Fusion breakthrough is a milestone for climate, clean energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fusion-breakthrough-is-a-milestone-for-climate-clean-energy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists announced Tuesday that they have for the first time produced more energy in a fusion reaction than was used to ignite it\u2014a major breakthrough in the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-12-fusion-clean-energy-breakthrough.html\">decades-long quest to harness<\/a> the process that powers the sun.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California achieved the result last week, the Energy Department said. Known as a net energy gain, the goal has been elusive because fusion happens at such high temperatures and pressures that it is incredibly difficult to control.<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough will pave the way for advancements in national defense and the future of clean power, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and other officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists announced Tuesday that they have for the first time produced more energy in a fusion reaction than was used to ignite it\u2014a major breakthrough in the decades-long quest to harness the process that powers the sun. Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California achieved the result last week, the Energy Department said. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152788","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}