{"id":88933,"date":"2019-03-25T16:02:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T23:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/new-research-boosts-potential-of-compact-fusion-power"},"modified":"2019-03-25T16:02:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T23:02:24","slug":"new-research-boosts-potential-of-compact-fusion-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/new-research-boosts-potential-of-compact-fusion-power","title":{"rendered":"New Research Boosts Potential of Compact Fusion Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-research-boosts-potential-of-compact-fusion-power2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aside from harvesting solar, wind, and hydrogen energy to produce electricity, many energy experts believe that developing compact fusion facilities can give humankind a stable and sustainable source of power that can last forever.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Jon Menard<\/strong>, a physicist from the <strong>U.S. Department of Energy<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory<\/strong> (PPPL), has reportedly examined the possibility of expediting the development of <strong>compact fusion facilities<\/strong> to generate safe, clean, and limitless energy.<\/p>\n<p>In his <a href=\"https:\/\/royalsocietypublishing.org\/doi\/10.1098\/rsta.2017.0440\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a><em>, <\/em>Menard looked into the concept of creating a <strong>compact tokamak<\/strong> powered by <strong>high-temperature superconducting magnets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that this kind of magnet can generate the higher <a href=\"https:\/\/edgy.app\/germany-nuclear-fusion-magnetic-fields\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>magnetic fields<\/strong><\/a> needed to produce and sustain fusion reactions.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/edgy.app\/compact-fusion-facilities\">https:\/\/edgy.app\/compact-fusion-facilities<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from harvesting solar, wind, and hydrogen energy to produce electricity, many energy experts believe that developing compact fusion facilities can give humankind a stable and sustainable source of power that can last forever. Jon Menard, a physicist from the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), has reportedly examined the possibility of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":478,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88933","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\/478"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}