{"id":368710,"date":"2010-02-27T02:50:28","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T07:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itecsinsider.com\/?p=14062"},"modified":"2010-02-27T02:50:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T07:50:28","slug":"a-future-for-fusion-supporters-say-it-isn%e2%80%99t-a-question-of-if-but-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/368710","title":{"rendered":"A Future For Fusion? Supporters Say It Isn\u2019t A Question Of If, But When"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 6pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9011\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px;\" title=\"nuclear-energy\" src=\"http:\/\/itecsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/nuclear-energy.jpg\" alt=\"nuclear-energy\" width=\"86\" height=\"86\" \/>By Leia Parker<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 6pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">(Wall Street Journal, February 22, 2010) It&#8217;s a tall order, but scientists at an English industrial complex near Oxford are attempting to develop an energy source that replicates the sun.\u00a0 The problem isn&#8217;t whether fusion can work: It does. Scientists have successfully released energy from light atoms by fusing their nuclei together. The special reactor at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in England holds the world record for most fusion power produced. \u00a0The problem is turning fusion into a viable large-scale energy source\u2014one that is economical, clean and safe. That is still somewhere over the horizon. After decades of research and billions of dollars in public financing, no fusion experiment yet has been able to generate more energy than it consumed in the process.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704107204575039330758722368.html?mod=WSJ_MetalsAndMining_leftHeadlines\" >Click here to read more&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Leia Parker (Wall Street Journal, February 22, 2010) It&#8217;s a tall order, but scientists at an English industrial complex near Oxford are attempting to develop an energy source that replicates the sun.\u00a0 The problem isn&#8217;t whether fusion can work: It does. Scientists have successfully released energy from light atoms by fusing their nuclei together. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}