{"id":200437,"date":"2024-11-29T17:30:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T23:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/a-nuclear-fusion-startup-just-reached-a-milestone-in-its-bid-to-commercialize-unlimited-clean-energy"},"modified":"2024-11-29T17:30:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T23:30:14","slug":"a-nuclear-fusion-startup-just-reached-a-milestone-in-its-bid-to-commercialize-unlimited-clean-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/a-nuclear-fusion-startup-just-reached-a-milestone-in-its-bid-to-commercialize-unlimited-clean-energy","title":{"rendered":"A nuclear fusion startup just reached a milestone in its bid to commercialize unlimited clean energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-nuclear-fusion-startup-just-reached-a-milestone-in-its-bid-to-commercialize-unlimited-clean-energy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a commercial warehouse overlooking the ocean in New Zealand\u2019s capital Wellington, a startup is trying to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/interactive\/2022\/05\/world\/iter-nuclear-fusion-climate-intl-cnnphotos\/\">recreate the power of a star<\/a> on Earth using an unconventional \u201cinside out\u201d reactor with a powerful levitating magnet at its core.<\/p>\n<p>Its aim is to produce nuclear fusion, a near-limitless form of clean energy generated by the exact opposite reaction the world\u2019s current nuclear energy is based on \u2014 instead of splitting atoms, nuclear fusion sets out to fuse them together, resulting in a powerful burst of energy that can be achieved using the most abundant element in the universe: hydrogen.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, OpenStar Technologies announced it had managed to create superheated plasma at temperatures of around 300,000 degrees Celsius, or 540,000 degrees Fahrenheit \u2014 one necessary step on a long path toward producing fusion energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a commercial warehouse overlooking the ocean in New Zealand\u2019s capital Wellington, a startup is trying to recreate the power of a star on Earth using an unconventional \u201cinside out\u201d reactor with a powerful levitating magnet at its core. Its aim is to produce nuclear fusion, a near-limitless form of clean energy generated by the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200437","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\/200437","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}