{"id":172563,"date":"2023-09-22T14:26:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T19:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/physicists-achieve-net-energy-gain-in-a-fusion-reaction-for-the-second-time"},"modified":"2023-09-22T14:26:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T19:26:29","slug":"physicists-achieve-net-energy-gain-in-a-fusion-reaction-for-the-second-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/physicists-achieve-net-energy-gain-in-a-fusion-reaction-for-the-second-time","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Achieve Net Energy Gain in a Fusion Reaction for the Second Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-achieve-net-energy-gain-in-a-fusion-reaction-for-the-second-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fusion power has long been seen as a pipe dream, but in recent years the technology has appeared to be edging closer to reality. The second demonstration of a fusion reaction that creates more power than it uses is another important marker suggesting fusion\u2019s time may be coming.<\/p>\n<p>Generating power by smashing together atoms holds considerable promise, because the fuel is abundant, required in tiny amounts, and the reactions produce little long-lived radioactive waste and no carbon emissions. The problem is that initiating fusion typically uses much more energy than the reaction generates, making a commercial fusion plant a distant dream at present.<\/p>\n<p>Last December though, scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory made a major breakthrough when they <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2022\/12\/16\/why-fusion-ignition-is-being-hailed-as-a-major-breakthrough-in-fusion-a-nuclear-physicist-explains\/\">achieved \u201cfusion ignition\u201d<\/a> for the first time. The term refers to a fusion reaction that produces more energy than was put in and becomes self-sustaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fusion power has long been seen as a pipe dream, but in recent years the technology has appeared to be edging closer to reality. The second demonstration of a fusion reaction that creates more power than it uses is another important marker suggesting fusion\u2019s time may be coming. Generating power by smashing together atoms holds [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172563","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=172563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}