{"id":159591,"date":"2023-03-05T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T15:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/in-a-breakthrough-experiment-fusion-gave-off-more-energy-than-it-used"},"modified":"2023-03-05T09:23:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T15:23:00","slug":"in-a-breakthrough-experiment-fusion-gave-off-more-energy-than-it-used","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/in-a-breakthrough-experiment-fusion-gave-off-more-energy-than-it-used","title":{"rendered":"In a breakthrough experiment, fusion gave off more energy than it used"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-a-breakthrough-experiment-fusion-gave-off-more-energy-than-it-used.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new test finally ignited a nuclear fusion reaction that unleashed more energy than it took in. This raises hopes that someday the reaction that powers the sun could also cleanly power activities here on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The experiment took place at the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, Calif. The U.S. Department of Energy announced its achievement on December 13.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a monumental breakthrough,\u201d says Gilbert Collins. This physicist works at the University of Rochester in New York and did not take part in the new research. \u201cSince I started in this field, fusion was always 50 years away,\u201d Collins says. \u201cWith this achievement, the landscape has changed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new test finally ignited a nuclear fusion reaction that unleashed more energy than it took in. This raises hopes that someday the reaction that powers the sun could also cleanly power activities here on Earth. The experiment took place at the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, Calif. The U.S. Department of Energy announced its [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159591","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}