{"id":84507,"date":"2018-11-05T14:23:32","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T22:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/peak-performance-new-stellarator-experiments-show-promising-results"},"modified":"2018-11-05T14:23:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T22:23:32","slug":"peak-performance-new-stellarator-experiments-show-promising-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/peak-performance-new-stellarator-experiments-show-promising-results","title":{"rendered":"Peak performance: new stellarator experiments show promising results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/peak-performance-new-stellarator-experiments-show-promising-results.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine building a machine so advanced and precise you need a supercomputer to help design it. That\u2019s exactly what scientists and engineers in Germany did when building the Wendelstein 7-X experiment. The device, funded by the German federal and state governments and the European Union, is a type of fusion device called a stellarator. The new experiment\u2019s goal is to contain a super-heated gas, called plasma, in a donut-shaped vessel using magnets that twist their way around the donut.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-11-peak-stellarator-results.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;11-peak-stellarator-results.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine building a machine so advanced and precise you need a supercomputer to help design it. That\u2019s exactly what scientists and engineers in Germany did when building the Wendelstein 7-X experiment. The device, funded by the German federal and state governments and the European Union, is a type of fusion device called a stellarator. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84507","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}