{"id":153921,"date":"2022-12-30T12:27:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T18:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/worlds-largest-laser-used-to-initiate-groundbreaking-fusion-reaction"},"modified":"2022-12-30T12:27:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T18:27:57","slug":"worlds-largest-laser-used-to-initiate-groundbreaking-fusion-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/worlds-largest-laser-used-to-initiate-groundbreaking-fusion-reaction","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s largest laser used to initiate groundbreaking fusion reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-largest-laser-used-to-initiate-groundbreaking-fusion-reaction2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a historic milestone in the quest for a clean nuclear energy source.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have made a major breakthrough in the field of nuclear fusion, sparking hope for a new carbon-free power source.<\/p>\n<p>How did they do it?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>llnl.gov.<\/p>\n<p>The team used the world\u2019s largest laser to initiate a fusion reaction that produced more energy than it took to create, marking a historic milestone in the quest for a clean nuclear energy source. Nuclear fusion has long been seen as a potential solution to the world\u2019s energy needs, as it could provide abundant electricity without emitting greenhouse gasses or producing long-lasting nuclear waste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a historic milestone in the quest for a clean nuclear energy source. Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have made a major breakthrough in the field of nuclear fusion, sparking hope for a new carbon-free power source. How did they do it? llnl.gov. The team used the world\u2019s largest laser to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153921","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=153921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}