{"id":166191,"date":"2023-06-22T06:22:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T11:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/this-breakthrough-fusion-technique-may-be-the-future-of-energy"},"modified":"2023-06-22T06:22:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T11:22:22","slug":"this-breakthrough-fusion-technique-may-be-the-future-of-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/this-breakthrough-fusion-technique-may-be-the-future-of-energy","title":{"rendered":"This Breakthrough Fusion Technique May Be The Future Of Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-breakthrough-fusion-technique-may-be-the-future-of-energy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fusion energy is basically just smashing things together to make energy. Grossly oversimplified? Yes, but still accurate. First Light Fusion in the UK has a unique approach to fusion energy that takes that \u201csmashing things together\u201d to another level. I had a chance to see their facility first hand and talk to them about their current progress, as well as what\u2019s to come at their new demonstrator plant. Are privately funded companies, like First Light Fusion, the path towards our fusion energy future?<\/p>\n<p>This is the second video in my \u201cUK nuclear tour.\u201d In my first video, I visited the UK Atomic Energy Authority\u2019s (UKAEA) Culham Science Center, which is the hub of the UK government\u2019s fusion research. That\u2019s where you find the JET and MAST-U tokamaks, but what\u2019s interesting is that the UKAEA isn\u2019t just about publicly funded research. They\u2019re also working with private companies, like First Light Fusion, to offer support to accelerate all kinds of approaches towards fusion energy. First Light just recently announced that they\u2019re building Machine 4 at the Culham Science Center, but I\u2019ll get to more on that in a bit.<sup><a id=\"fnr1-1610\" class=\"\" title=\"see footnote\" href=\"https:\/\/undecidedmf.com\/this-breakthrough-fusion-technique-may-be-the-future-of-energy\/#fn1-1610\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fusion energy is basically just smashing things together to make energy. Grossly oversimplified? Yes, but still accurate. First Light Fusion in the UK has a unique approach to fusion energy that takes that \u201csmashing things together\u201d to another level. I had a chance to see their facility first hand and talk to them about their [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166191","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}