{"id":19941,"date":"2015-12-11T18:48:08","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T02:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/german-plasma-success-raises-nuclear-fusion-hopes"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:17:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:17:56","slug":"german-plasma-success-raises-nuclear-fusion-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/german-plasma-success-raises-nuclear-fusion-hopes","title":{"rendered":"German plasma success raises nuclear fusion hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/german-plasma-success-raises-nuclear-fusion-hopes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A German nuclear fusion experiment has produced a special super-hot gas which scientists hope will eventually lead to clean, cheap energy.<\/p>\n<p>The helium plasma \u2014 a cloud of loose, charged particles \u2014 lasted just a tenth of a second and was about one million degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n<p>It was hailed as a breakthrough for the Max Planck Institute\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipp.mpg.de\/14779\/stellarator\">stellarator<\/a> \u2014 a chamber whose design differs from the tokamak fusion devices used elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-35074848\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A German nuclear fusion experiment has produced a special super-hot gas which scientists hope will eventually lead to clean, cheap energy. The helium plasma \u2014 a cloud of loose, charged particles \u2014 lasted just a tenth of a second and was about one million degrees Celsius. It was hailed as a breakthrough for the Max [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19941","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\/19941","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\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19941"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69036,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19941\/revisions\/69036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}