{"id":166641,"date":"2023-06-29T15:23:12","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T20:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/combining-nuclear-and-solar-tech-could-make-a-powerful-pair"},"modified":"2023-06-29T15:23:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T20:23:12","slug":"combining-nuclear-and-solar-tech-could-make-a-powerful-pair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/combining-nuclear-and-solar-tech-could-make-a-powerful-pair","title":{"rendered":"Combining nuclear and solar tech could make a powerful pair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/combining-nuclear-and-solar-tech-could-make-a-powerful-pair2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In energy policy debates, nuclear energy and renewable energy technologies are sometimes viewed as competitors.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, they could be better, together.<\/p>\n<p>At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.engr.wisc.edu\/ep\/Faculty\/Lindley_Benjamin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ben Lindley<\/a>, an assistant professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.wisc.edu\/departments\/nuclear-engineering-engineering-physics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">engineering physics<\/a> and an expert on nuclear reactors, and <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.engr.wisc.edu\/me\/Faculty\/Wagner_Michael\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mike Wagner<\/a>, an assistant professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.wisc.edu\/departments\/mechanical-engineering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mechanical engineering<\/a> and a solar energy expert, are studying the feasibility and benefits of such a coupling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In energy policy debates, nuclear energy and renewable energy technologies are sometimes viewed as competitors. In reality, they could be better, together. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ben Lindley, an assistant professor of engineering physics and an expert on nuclear reactors, and Mike Wagner, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and a solar energy expert, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,873,31,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-nuclear-energy","category-policy","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166641","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}