{"id":97538,"date":"2019-10-17T10:42:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T17:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/patent-talk-plasma-compression-fusion-device-ignites-curiosity-over-nuclear-fusion"},"modified":"2019-10-17T10:42:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T17:42:57","slug":"patent-talk-plasma-compression-fusion-device-ignites-curiosity-over-nuclear-fusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/patent-talk-plasma-compression-fusion-device-ignites-curiosity-over-nuclear-fusion","title":{"rendered":"Patent talk: Plasma compression fusion device ignites curiosity over nuclear fusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/patent-talk-plasma-compression-fusion-device-ignites-curiosity-over-nuclear-fusion2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/m.techxplore.com\/news\/patents.google.com\/patent\/US20190295733A1\/en?inventor=Salvatore+Pais&oq=inventor:(Salvatore+Pais)\">patent<\/a> application for a \u201cPlasma Compression Fusion Device\u201d was applied for in March last year. It read, \u201cApplication filed by US Secretary of Navy.\u201d The patent application was published in September this year. Under discussion is a compact fusion reactor.<\/p>\n<p>The focus is on a compact <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/nuclear+fusion+reactor\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nuclear fusion reactor<\/a> that measures between 0.3 to 2 meters in diameter. As of October 15, the application status was listed as pending. The inventor named in the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/patent+application\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">patent application<\/a> was Salvatore Pais.<\/p>\n<p>As described in <i>The War Zone<\/i>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/reactor\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">reactor<\/a> could \u201cpump out absolutely incredible amounts of power in a small space.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The patent application for a \u201cPlasma Compression Fusion Device\u201d was applied for in March last year. It read, \u201cApplication filed by US Secretary of Navy.\u201d The patent application was published in September this year. Under discussion is a compact fusion reactor. The focus is on a compact nuclear fusion reactor that measures between 0.3 to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97538","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}