{"id":157039,"date":"2023-02-04T15:26:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T21:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/china-new-hypersonic-generator-capable-of-powering-future-weapons"},"modified":"2023-02-04T15:26:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T21:26:12","slug":"china-new-hypersonic-generator-capable-of-powering-future-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/china-new-hypersonic-generator-capable-of-powering-future-weapons","title":{"rendered":"China: New hypersonic generator \u2018capable\u2019 of powering future weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-new-hypersonic-generator-capable-of-powering-future-weapons2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf this technology finds an application in power generation, we may owe the hypersonic weapons a big \u2018thank you,\u2019\u201d says a researcher.<\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers from Beijing has created a generator \u201ccapable\u201d of converting hot gas at hypersonic speeds into a powerful electric current.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers claimed that the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) generator yielded more than ten times the power generated in previous experiments.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Wikimedia Commons.<\/p>\n<p>The electricity generated can be used to power military lasers, microwave weapons, rail guns, and other pulsed energy weapons, South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf this technology finds an application in power generation, we may owe the hypersonic weapons a big \u2018thank you,\u2019\u201d says a researcher. A team of researchers from Beijing has created a generator \u201ccapable\u201d of converting hot gas at hypersonic speeds into a powerful electric current. The researchers claimed that the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) generator yielded more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157039","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=157039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}