{"id":25145,"date":"2016-04-28T18:47:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T01:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/the-secretive-billionaire-backed-plans-to-harness-fusion"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:01:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:01:14","slug":"the-secretive-billionaire-backed-plans-to-harness-fusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/the-secretive-billionaire-backed-plans-to-harness-fusion","title":{"rendered":"The secretive, billionaire-backed plans to harness fusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-secretive-billionaire-backed-plans-to-harness-fusion.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unencumbered by red tape, these venture-backed companies believe that they can find a faster, cheaper way to fusion than government-sponsored projects, and some very influential people agree: besides Bezos, Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen and PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel are also backing firms at the forefront of fusion development.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The founders of Amazon and Microsoft are putting their fortunes into little-known fusion energy companies. Jonathan Frochtzwajg digs into a story that has strange parallels with fiction.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20160428-the-secretive-billionaire-backed-plans-to-harness-fusion\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20160428-the-secretive-billi...ess-fusion<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unencumbered by red tape, these venture-backed companies believe that they can find a faster, cheaper way to fusion than government-sponsored projects, and some very influential people agree: besides Bezos, Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen and PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel are also backing firms at the forefront of fusion development. The founders of Amazon and Microsoft are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25145","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=25145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67612,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25145\/revisions\/67612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}