{"id":73603,"date":"2017-10-31T13:02:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T20:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/the-race-to-create-a-star-on-earth"},"modified":"2017-10-31T13:02:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T20:02:28","slug":"the-race-to-create-a-star-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/the-race-to-create-a-star-on-earth","title":{"rendered":"The Race to Create a Star on Earth"},"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\/knrHPneSN10?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If the processes powering the fusion reactor at the Sun\u2019s core could be recreated on Earth, it would be one of the most important events in the history of our species. Nuclear fusion power plants could end our dependency on fossil fuels and provide a virtually limitless, highly efficient source of clean energy.<\/p>\n<p>We went to two of the world\u2019s leading nuclear fusion research centers\u2014Sandia National Labs in New Mexico and General Fusion outside Vancouver\u2014to see how close we are to bringing the power of the stars down to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Follow MOTHERBOARD<br \/> Facebook: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/motherboardtv\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/motherboardtv<\/a><br \/> Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/motherboard\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/motherboard<\/a><br \/> Tumblr: <a href=\"http:\/\/motherboardtv.tumblr.com\/\">http:\/\/motherboardtv.tumblr.com\/<\/a><br \/> Instagram: <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/motherboardtv\">http:\/\/instagram.com\/motherboardtv<\/a><br \/> More videos from the VICE network: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fb.com\/vicevideo\">https:\/\/www.fb.com\/vicevideo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=knrHPneSN10\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=knrHPneSN10<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the processes powering the fusion reactor at the Sun\u2019s core could be recreated on Earth, it would be one of the most important events in the history of our species. Nuclear fusion power plants could end our dependency on fossil fuels and provide a virtually limitless, highly efficient source of clean energy. We went [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73603","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}