{"id":19922,"date":"2015-12-10T13:46:37","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T21:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/germany-just-fired-up-a-monster-machine-that-could-revolutionize-the-way-we-use-energy"},"modified":"2017-04-24T23:27:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T06:27:21","slug":"germany-just-fired-up-a-monster-machine-that-could-revolutionize-the-way-we-use-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/germany-just-fired-up-a-monster-machine-that-could-revolutionize-the-way-we-use-energy","title":{"rendered":"Germany just fired up a monster machine that could revolutionize the way we use energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u-fbBRAxJNk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics fired up a monster machine that it hopes will change the world.<\/p>\n<p>The machine is called the Wendelstein 7-X, or W7-X for short. It\u2019s a type of nuclear-fusion machine called a stellarator and is the largest, most sophisticated of its kind.<\/p>\n<p>Nuclear fusion could prove to be a clean, inexhaustible energy source. But humans are still a ways from successfully building a reactor that could power a small town, let alone entire cities. But now, we\u2019re one step closer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/germany-just-fired-monster-machine-154554400.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics fired up a monster machine that it hopes will change the world. The machine is called the Wendelstein 7-X, or W7-X for short. It\u2019s a type of nuclear-fusion machine called a stellarator and is the largest, most sophisticated of its kind. Nuclear fusion could prove to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19922","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44964,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19922\/revisions\/44964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}