{"id":86217,"date":"2018-12-29T02:22:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T10:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/new-calculations-may-finally-make-fusion-energy-a-reality"},"modified":"2018-12-29T02:22:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T10:22:25","slug":"new-calculations-may-finally-make-fusion-energy-a-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/new-calculations-may-finally-make-fusion-energy-a-reality","title":{"rendered":"New Calculations May Finally Make Fusion Energy a Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-calculations-may-finally-make-fusion-energy-a-reality2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But despite all our advances, we\u2019re not a whole lot closer to creating net-positive nuclear fusion. Put simply, that\u2019s because these machines just take <em>so <\/em>much energy to generate plasma.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Wendelstein 7-X isn\u2019t even intended to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/germany-s-massive-nuclear-fusion-machine-just-produced-its-first-hydrogen-plasma\">generate usable amounts of energy, ever<\/a>. It\u2019s just a proof of concept.<\/p>\n<p>But for years, Hora and her team have been working on alternative designs. And in this study, they tested them out experimentally as well as through simulations.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/calculations-fusion-energy-reality\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/calculations-fusion-energy-reality<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But despite all our advances, we\u2019re not a whole lot closer to creating net-positive nuclear fusion. Put simply, that\u2019s because these machines just take so much energy to generate plasma. In fact, Wendelstein 7-X isn\u2019t even intended to generate usable amounts of energy, ever. It\u2019s just a proof of concept. But for years, Hora and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86217","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=86217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}