{"id":173663,"date":"2023-10-06T23:25:10","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T04:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/alfven-waves-unlocking-unlimited-clean-energy-for-the-earth"},"modified":"2023-10-06T23:25:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T04:25:10","slug":"alfven-waves-unlocking-unlimited-clean-energy-for-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/alfven-waves-unlocking-unlimited-clean-energy-for-the-earth","title":{"rendered":"Alfv\u00e9n waves: unlocking unlimited clean energy for the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alfven-waves-unlocking-unlimited-clean-energy-for-the-earth3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) announced the discovery of a promising approach to mitigate the damaging effects of runaway electrons in tokamak fusion devices in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pppl.gov\/news\/2023\/breakthrough-discovery-could-accelerate-arrival-controlled-fusion-energy-earth\" title=\"statement\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The key to this discovery lies in harnessing a unique type of plasma wave known as Alfv\u00e9n waves, named after the renowned astrophysicist Hannes Alfv\u00e9n, a Nobel laureate in 1970.<\/p>\n<p>Alfv\u00e9n waves have long been recognized for their ability to loosen the confinement of high-energy particles within tokamak reactors\u2014 a type of fusion reactor that confines plasma in the shape of a donut using a magnetic field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) announced the discovery of a promising approach to mitigate the damaging effects of runaway electrons in tokamak fusion devices in a statement. The key to this discovery lies in harnessing a unique type of plasma wave known as Alfv\u00e9n waves, named after the renowned astrophysicist Hannes Alfv\u00e9n, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173663","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=173663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}