{"id":89633,"date":"2019-04-17T11:04:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T18:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/researchers-just-demonstrated-nuclear-fusion-in-a-device-small-enough-to-keep-at-home"},"modified":"2019-04-17T14:34:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T21:34:04","slug":"researchers-just-demonstrated-nuclear-fusion-in-a-device-small-enough-to-keep-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/researchers-just-demonstrated-nuclear-fusion-in-a-device-small-enough-to-keep-at-home","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Just Demonstrated Nuclear Fusion in a Device Small Enough to Keep at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-just-demonstrated-nuclear-fusion-in-a-device-small-enough-to-keep-at-home2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to the kinds of technology needed to contain a sun, there are currently just two horses in the race. Neither is what you\u2019d call \u2018petite\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>An earlier form of fusion technology that barely made it out of the starting blocks has just overcome a serious hurdle. It\u2019s got a long way to catch up, but given its potential cost and versatility, a table-sized fusion device like this is worth watching out for.<\/p>\n<p>While many have long given up on an early form of plasma confinement called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Z-pinch\">the Z-pinch<\/a> as a feasible way to generate power, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.washington.edu\/research\/ZaP\">researchers at the University of Washington<\/a> in the US have continued to look for a way to overcome its shortcomings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-breakthrough-revives-an-old-idea-for-nuclear-fusion-that-could-power-your-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-breakthrough-revives-an-old-idea-for-nuclear-fusion-that-could-power-your-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-breakthrough-revives-an-old-idea-for-nuclear-fusion-that-could-power-your-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-breakthrough-revives-an-old-idea-for-nuclear-fusion-that-could-power-your-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to the kinds of technology needed to contain a sun, there are currently just two horses in the race. Neither is what you\u2019d call \u2018petite\u2019. An earlier form of fusion technology that barely made it out of the starting blocks has just overcome a serious hurdle. It\u2019s got a long way to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89633","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89648,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89633\/revisions\/89648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}