{"id":187985,"date":"2024-04-23T20:24:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T01:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/record-electron-temperatures-for-a-small-scale-sheared-flow-stabilized-z-pinch-fusion-device-achieved"},"modified":"2024-04-23T20:24:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T01:24:44","slug":"record-electron-temperatures-for-a-small-scale-sheared-flow-stabilized-z-pinch-fusion-device-achieved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/record-electron-temperatures-for-a-small-scale-sheared-flow-stabilized-z-pinch-fusion-device-achieved","title":{"rendered":"Record electron temperatures for a small-scale, sheared-flow-stabilized Z-pinch fusion device achieved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/record-electron-temperatures-for-a-small-scale-sheared-flow-stabilized-z-pinch-fusion-device-achieved2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the nine decades since humans first produced fusion reactions, only a few fusion technologies have demonstrated the ability to make a thermal fusion plasma with electron temperatures hotter than 10 million degrees Celsius, roughly the temperature of the core of the sun. Zap Energy\u2019s unique approach, known as a sheared-flow-stabilized Z pinch, has now joined those rarefied ranks, far exceeding this plasma temperature milestone in a device that is a fraction of the scale of other fusion systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the nine decades since humans first produced fusion reactions, only a few fusion technologies have demonstrated the ability to make a thermal fusion plasma with electron temperatures hotter than 10 million degrees Celsius, roughly the temperature of the core of the sun. Zap Energy\u2019s unique approach, known as a sheared-flow-stabilized Z pinch, has now [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187985","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}