{"id":87363,"date":"2019-02-03T11:22:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T19:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/laser-scientists-just-tripled-their-fusion-power-yield"},"modified":"2019-02-03T11:22:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T19:22:28","slug":"laser-scientists-just-tripled-their-fusion-power-yield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/laser-scientists-just-tripled-their-fusion-power-yield","title":{"rendered":"Laser Scientists Just Tripled Their Fusion Power Yield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/laser-scientists-just-tripled-their-fusion-power-yield.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fusion power \u2014 the process that keeps stars like the Sun burning \u2014 holds the promise of nearly unlimited clean power. But scientists have struggled for decades to make it a practical energy source.<\/p>\n<p>Now, laser scientists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/controlled-nuclear-fusion-lle-laser-lab-361132\/\">say a machine learning breakthrough<\/a> has smashed the standing record for a fusion power yield. It doesn\u2019t mean fusion power is practical yet, but the prestigious journal <em>Nature<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-019-00261-3\">called the result<\/a> \u201cremarkable\u201d and wrote that it has \u201cmajor implications\u201d \u2014 so, at the very least, it\u2019s another hint that the long-deferred technology is starting to come into focus.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/scientists-tripled-record-fusion-power\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/scientists-tripled-record-fusion-power<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fusion power \u2014 the process that keeps stars like the Sun burning \u2014 holds the promise of nearly unlimited clean power. But scientists have struggled for decades to make it a practical energy source. Now, laser scientists say a machine learning breakthrough has smashed the standing record for a fusion power yield. It doesn\u2019t mean [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87363","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=87363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}