{"id":88585,"date":"2019-03-12T07:53:14","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T14:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/why-bezos-and-microsoft-are-betting-on-this-10-trillion-energy-fix-for-the-planet"},"modified":"2019-03-12T07:53:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T14:53:14","slug":"why-bezos-and-microsoft-are-betting-on-this-10-trillion-energy-fix-for-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/why-bezos-and-microsoft-are-betting-on-this-10-trillion-energy-fix-for-the-planet","title":{"rendered":"Why Bezos and Microsoft are betting on this $10 trillion energy fix for the planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-bezos-and-microsoft-are-betting-on-this-10-trillion-energy-fix-for-the-planet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So far, no one has commercialized nuclear fusion, but the race is on to be the first to figure it out. Whoever does will be able to bring power to the more than 1 billion who don\u2019t have access to electricity, power cars and help companies operate businesses without having to create harmful emissions.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Jeff Bezos and others have sunk more than $127 million into General Fusion, a start-up trying to commercialize fusion energy. Microsoft is partnering with the company. The goal: to provide energy to 1 billion people that don\u2019t have electricity.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/03\/06\/bezos-microsoft-bet-on-a-10-trillion-energy-fix-for-the-planet.html\">https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/03\/06\/bezos-microsoft-bet-on-a-10-...lanet.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far, no one has commercialized nuclear fusion, but the race is on to be the first to figure it out. Whoever does will be able to bring power to the more than 1 billion who don\u2019t have access to electricity, power cars and help companies operate businesses without having to create harmful emissions. Jeff [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,873,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-nuclear-energy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88585","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}