{"id":221314,"date":"2025-09-02T11:04:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/chinas-tang-jet-electric-thrust-no-fuel-needed"},"modified":"2025-09-02T11:04:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:04:21","slug":"chinas-tang-jet-electric-thrust-no-fuel-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/chinas-tang-jet-electric-thrust-no-fuel-needed","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Tang Jet: Electric Thrust, No Fuel Needed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinas-tang-jet-electric-thrust-no-fuel-needed2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Chinese professor has unveiled a bold plasma jet engine that converts electricity directly into thrust \u2014 no fuel, no combustion. Known as the \u201cTang Jet,\u201d this prototype mimics lightning by superheating air into plasma to generate clean, powerful propulsion. While it\u2019s not ready to lift a jetliner yet, this breakthrough could one day redefine zero-emission flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese professor has unveiled a bold plasma jet engine that converts electricity directly into thrust \u2014 no fuel, no combustion. Known as the \u201cTang Jet,\u201d this prototype mimics lightning by superheating air into plasma to generate clean, powerful propulsion. While it\u2019s not ready to lift a jetliner yet, this breakthrough could one day redefine [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221314","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}