{"id":188645,"date":"2024-05-04T04:22:28","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T09:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/fusion-breakthrough-compact-new-device-reaches-temperatures-of-37-million-degrees"},"modified":"2024-05-04T04:22:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T09:22:28","slug":"fusion-breakthrough-compact-new-device-reaches-temperatures-of-37-million-degrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/fusion-breakthrough-compact-new-device-reaches-temperatures-of-37-million-degrees","title":{"rendered":"Fusion Breakthrough: Compact New Device Reaches Temperatures of 37 Million Degrees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fusion-breakthrough-compact-new-device-reaches-temperatures-of-37-million-degrees2.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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zapenergy.com\/how-it-works\">sheared-flow-stabilized Z pinch<\/a>, 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<p>A new research paper, published this month in <em> <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>, <\/em>details measurements made on Zap Energy\u2019s Fusion Z-pinch Experiment (FuZE) of 1\u20133 keV plasma electron temperatures \u2014 roughly the equivalent of 11 to 37 million degrees Celsius (20 to 66 million degrees Fahrenheit). Due to the electrons\u2019 ability to rapidly cool a plasma, this feat is a key hurdle for fusion systems and FuZE is the simplest, smallest, and lowest cost device to have achieved it. Zap\u2019s technology offers the potential for a much shorter and more practical path to a commercial product capable of producing abundant, on-demand, carbon-free energy to the globe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are meticulous, unequivocal measurements, yet made on a device of incredibly modest scale by traditional fusion standards,\u201d describes Ben Levitt, VP of R&amp;D at Zap. \u201cWe\u2019ve still got a lot of work ahead of us, but our performance to date has advanced to a point that we can now stand shoulder to shoulder with some of the world\u2019s pre-eminent fusion devices, but with great efficiency, and at a fraction of the complexity and cost.\u201d<\/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":[1522,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188645","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=188645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}