{"id":185975,"date":"2024-03-25T12:24:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T17:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/ai-solves-huge-problem-holding-back-fusion-power"},"modified":"2024-03-25T12:24:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T17:24:39","slug":"ai-solves-huge-problem-holding-back-fusion-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/ai-solves-huge-problem-holding-back-fusion-power","title":{"rendered":"AI solves huge problem holding back fusion power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-solves-huge-problem-holding-back-fusion-power.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Princeton researchers have trained an AI to predict and <em>prevent <\/em>a common problem arising during nuclear fusion reactions \u2014 and they think it might be able to solve other problems, too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The challenge:<\/strong> If the Spice Girls were physicists, their song \u201c2 Become 1\u201d might have been about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/energy\/nuclear-fusion-world-record\">nuclear fusion<\/a>, a reaction that occurs when two atoms merge.<\/p>\n<p>Fusion releases a tremendous amount of energy in the form of heat \u2014 it\u2019s what powers the sun and other stars \u2014 and if we could harness the reaction here on Earth, we would have a near limitless source of clean energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Princeton researchers have trained an AI to predict and prevent a common problem arising during nuclear fusion reactions \u2014 and they think it might be able to solve other problems, too. The challenge: If the Spice Girls were physicists, their song \u201c2 Become 1\u201d might have been about nuclear fusion, a reaction that occurs when [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,48,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-particle-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185975","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}