{"id":181237,"date":"2024-01-24T00:24:49","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T06:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/liquid-lithium-on-the-walls-of-a-fusion-device-helps-the-plasma-within-maintain-a-hot-edge"},"modified":"2024-01-24T00:24:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T06:24:49","slug":"liquid-lithium-on-the-walls-of-a-fusion-device-helps-the-plasma-within-maintain-a-hot-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/liquid-lithium-on-the-walls-of-a-fusion-device-helps-the-plasma-within-maintain-a-hot-edge","title":{"rendered":"Liquid lithium on the walls of a fusion device helps the plasma within maintain a hot edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/liquid-lithium-on-the-walls-of-a-fusion-device-helps-the-plasma-within-maintain-a-hot-edge2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Emerging research suggests it may be easier to use fusion as a power source if liquid lithium is applied to the internal walls of the device housing the fusion plasma.<\/p>\n<p>Plasma, the fourth state of matter, is a hot gas made of electrically charged particles. Scientists at the Department of Energy\u2019s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) are working on solutions to efficiently harness the power of fusion to offer a cleaner alternative to fossil fuels, often using devices called tokamaks, which confine plasma using magnetic fields.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe purpose of these devices is to confine the energy,\u201d said Dennis Boyle, a staff research physicist at PPPL. \u201cIf you had much better energy confinement, you could make the machines smaller and less expensive. That would make the whole thing a lot more practical, and cost-effective so that governments and industry want to invest more in it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emerging research suggests it may be easier to use fusion as a power source if liquid lithium is applied to the internal walls of the device housing the fusion plasma. Plasma, the fourth state of matter, is a hot gas made of electrically charged particles. Scientists at the Department of Energy\u2019s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181237","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\/181237","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}